Chris and Medlir catch up with Young Diogenes to discuss OpenAI's ChatGPT and explore its possible uses and abuses. Don't miss a passing glance at David Bowie's 'Verbasizer' and Meta's AI Cicero. Links: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-ai-writing-college-student-essays/672371/ https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/chatgpt-college-essay-plagiarism.html https://www.vice.com/en/article/xygxpn/the-verbasizer-was-david-bowies-1995-lyric-wr...
Dec 25, 2022•27 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Medlir and Chris are joined by Ingvild Bode for a wide ranging conversation on military automation, accountability and the future (and present) of armed conflict. Links: AutoNorms Weaponised Artificial Intelligence, Norms, and Order Worried about the autonomous weapons of the future? Look at what’s already gone wrong AI has already been weaponised – and it shows why we should ban 'killer robots' Send us a text...
Dec 11, 2022•33 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Medlir is joined by Carrie McDougall of the Melbourne Law School and an expert in international criminal law. They discuss prospects for a possible international tribunal to prosecute the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, and to consider the question of accountability and Autonomous Weapons Systems. Links: Autonomous Weapon Systems and Accountability: Putting the Cart before the Horse The Case for Creating an International Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine by by Oo...
Nov 27, 2022•35 min•Season 4Ep. 5
In this episode, Medlir and Chris discuss the question of AI sentience and Lambda with Young Diogenes. Links: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/03/25/what-is-a-transformer-model/ https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-does-it-want-688632134489 https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iBXyKJwqh20&ab_channel=2ago1992 https://www.wired.com/story/lamda-sentient-ai-bias-google-blake-lemoine/ ...
Nov 13, 2022•24 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Chris and Medlir welcome Zeyi Yang of MIT Technology Review to the show for a wide ranging discussion from Pokemon to predictive policing and digital authoritarianism to China’s urban Metascapes. Links: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/22/1054586/hikvision-worlds-biggest-surveillance-company/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/25/technology/china-surveillance-police.html?referringSource=articleShare https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/U.S.-China-tensions-knock-96-off-of-bilateral-tech...
Oct 30, 2022•42 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Chris and Medlir are joined Dr. Jelena Cupac, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Global Governance Research Unit at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in Germany, to discuss her work on patriarchy, democracy, and AI ethics. Links: Engines of Patriarchy: Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Times of Illiberal Backlash Politics Backlash advocacy and NGO polarization over women's rights in the United Nations Send us a text...
Oct 16, 2022•36 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Chris discusses with Asser Institute's Taylor Woodcock the implications of the development and use of military applications of AI for the international legal obligations applicable in armed conflict under international humanitarian law and international human rights law. Links: Aspects of Realizing (Meaningful) Human Control: A Legal Perspective | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4109202 Lethal autonomous weapons, war crimes, and the Convention on Conventional Weapons | https:...
Oct 02, 2022•24 min•Season 4Ep. 1
In this episode Medlir and Chris have a chat with Young Diogenes about the use of AI in the latest Top Gun movie, and then explore the boundaries, risks, and opportunities of human-AI collaboration going forward, in a wide ranging discussion that also looks at the question of ‘tamagotchi’ children. Links: Hear Val Kilmer's AI voice – Sonantic Val Kilmer’s daughter says watching dad film ‘Maverick’ was ‘extraordinary’ IMDB Val Kilmer's Dialogue in "Top Gun: Maverick" Was Read By AI Because He Can...
Jul 17, 2022•22 min•Season 3Ep. 8
In this episode Medlir and Chris speak with the two of the authors of a Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) Georgetown report on AI cooperation among members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, more commonly known as the Quad. Links Quad AI | Assessing AI-related Collaboration between the United States, Australia, India, and Japan The Future of the Quad’s Technology Cooperation Hangs in the Balance Send us a text...
Jul 10, 2022•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 7
Medlir and Chris discuss the distinction between analogue and digital approaches to IR and the impact of digital innovations in peace-building. They also ask whether digital peace is any more secure and less fragile than the analog one. Meanwhile Young Diogenes engages with Derek Parfit's 'hinge of history' argument and, unsurprisingly, finds extant interpretations lacking. Links: The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation Peace-making: new technologies are no panac...
Jun 26, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Medlir and Chris discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the future of global trade, data colonialism and prospects for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework with guest Dan Ciuriak, while Young Diogenes talks up AI’s potential to transform manufacturing ("Yes, yes, I understand 'Manufacturing' won't seem all that exciting to some of you. Ha. " --YD) Links: Unfree Flow with No Trust | https://www.cigionline.org/articles/unfree-flow-with-no-trust-the-implications-of-geoeconomics-and-geopolitics-for-da...
Jun 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Chris and Medlir explore with Young Diogenes the question of whether AI will be our artist of the future, while Medlir talks to Ilan Manor about public digital diplomacy and the use of digital tools in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Links: AI-art isn’t art Communicating with Purpose and Value: Chapter 3 Digital Diplomacy How Digital Diplomacy is Shaping the #Ukraine Crisis Digital Diplomacy in #Ukraine- A Case of Strategic Transparency Why digital sanctions are the latest geopolitical battleground...
May 29, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Chris and Medlir review AI-themed television shows with Young Diogenes (e.g. Westworld), followed by a discussion with Frederick Bruneault, professor of philosophy at University of Quebec Montreal, asking the question: How do we define AI ethics and how do we avoid pitfalls in the debate surrounding it. Finally, we ask Dr. Bruneault, what is missing from the current discussion on AI ethics? Links: Groupe de recherche sur l’information et la surveillance au quotidien AI ethics debate: How can inf...
May 15, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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May 01, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Medlir and Chris start off our third season with AI4Peace's Branka Panic, about how AI can contribute to peace and conflict prevention. Plus see our bonus episode this week on YD's AI movie picks, which also led to a lively second discussion. Links: AI4Peace | https://www.aiforpeace.org/ Report on data for peacebuilding and prevention | https://cic.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/can_emerging_technologies_lead_a_revival_of_conflict_early_warningearly_action_lessons_from_the_field-2022_0.pdf The Berk...
May 01, 2022•55 min•Season 3Ep. 1
How do we teach emerging tech in IR? How will technological changes impact the discipline in particular and higher education more broadly? How can we best design curriculums to address emerging challenges? These are some of the questions Medlir and Chris will explore in the second part of our two part series on higher education with guests Andre Barrinha and Raluca Csernatori. Send us a text
Mar 20, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 12
What does the education look like in an age of everincreasing demands for technical proficiency and availability? How can we make better uses of emerging tech in our classrooms and study spaces? Tech IQ versus Emotional IQ. What is the balance? Professor Nancy Gleason and Dr. Alexandra Mihai joined Chris and Medlir to discuss these questions and more in the first of a two-episode special on Higher Education and Teaching in the age of AI. (YD is on hiatus this week.) Links: https://educationalist...
Mar 06, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Medlir and Chris talk to Bojan Perkov of the SHARE Foundation about digital surveillance in Serbia. Meanwhile, YD discusses why mass surveillance and facial recognition technologies are far from benign. Notes https://medium.com/s/story/facial-recognition-is-the-perfect-tool-for-oppression-bc2a08f0fe66 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/facebook-privacy.html https://www.sharefoundation.info/en/ Send us a text...
Feb 27, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Medlir and Chris talk to Marwa Fatafta, a Palestian digital rights activist, about her work as a digital activist in Palestine and how digital technologies are harnessed against civil society. Young Diogenes also explains the nuts-and-bolts of spyware. https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/statement-report/statement-targeting-palestinian-hrds-pegasus https://www.accessnow.org/women-human-rights-defenders-pegasus-attacks-bahrain-jordan/ https://www.nsogroup.com/ https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/01/2...
Feb 13, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Medlir and Chris have a discussion with Dr. Daphné Richemond-Barak of IDC Herzliya-Israel, about: the evolving role of tunnels in warfare, the importance of international humanitarian law, the Abraham Accords, and whether AI-enabled defense systems like Israel's Iron Dome should be emulated or regulated alongside other Autonomous Weapons Systems. Meanwhile, Young Diongenes shares what some of the consequences may be for AIs 'mastering' the human game of hide & seek. Links: https://lieber.wes...
Jan 23, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Description: Medlir and Chris discuss with Gloria Shkurti Özdemir of Turkey-based think-tank SETA, Turkey's ambitious plans for the development and export of AI-enabled military hardware in light of the country's recently announced 5 year strategy. Ismail al-Jaazari, a 12th century Muslim scholar, inventor, artist, and mathematician credited with being the father of robotics, and Ada Lovelace, a gifted 19th century mathematician and the world's 'first computer programmer', make a joint appearanc...
Jan 09, 2022•49 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Medlir, Chris, and YD discuss some of the major developments in AI for IR during the past year (and other delightful tangents). https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2021/06/south-korea-add-robots-rails-and-ai-surveillance-dmz-border/174734/ https://www.the-good-ai.com/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/24/1014369/10-breakthrough-technologies-2021/ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ai-will-have-a-bigger-impact-than-fire-says-google-boss-sundar-pichai-rk8bdst7r https://edition.cnn.com/202...
Dec 12, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Medlir and Chris explore China’s approach to AI governance and innovation with our guest Chen Dingding in a conversation that touches on a number of topics from US-China relations and tech competition to AI governance. While YD ask questions about what the term Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) means, and whether the substrate (biological, silicon, etc.) on which AI runs is likely to affect the ability to truly achieve the AGI that many people imagine. Links: https://thediplomat.com/2019/03/...
Nov 28, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Medlir and Chris discuss a wide range of topics with Eugenio V. Garcia. The discussion ranges from: AI militarization and the Global South, efforts to regulate AI by international organizations, to recent developments in AI regulation in Brazil. Meanwhile YD ponders the latest developments in what wearable digital technologies could mean for our digital lives, privacy, and social fragmentation, with a brief look at Facebook/Meta's new "Ray-Ban Stories" smart glasses, and Intel Labs' "Enhancing P...
Nov 14, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Medlir and Chris discuss the opportunities and challenges of AI and emerging tech Southeast Asia, tech competition, and regional digital governance with Mark Manantan, while YD and the team ponder what Dune tells us about our future. Links: https://thediplomat.com/2020/10/mind-the-gap-how-southeast-asia-can-make-the-ai-leap/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence Send us a text...
Oct 31, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Medlir and Chris discuss innovation, Sino-US tech competition, and AI governance in China with Emily Weinstein. While YD raises the question of whether top down or bottom up incentives are 'better' and the role of government in technology innovation. Send us a text
Oct 17, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 2
Medlir and Chris speak with Leonid Kovachich to discuss Russia’s approach to AI and emerging technology (with YD asking a couple questions about Privacy, Data Governance, and further improving audit trails in the age of AI). Links: https://carnegie.ru/2021/04/21/digital-authoritarianism-with-russian-characteristics-pub-84346 https://www.ifri.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nocetti_russia_artificial_intelligence_2020.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0030438720300648 ...
Oct 03, 2021•59 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Medlir, Chris and YD discuss highlights from our first season. Send us a text
Aug 22, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Medlir and Chris discuss AI and (Counter)Terrorism with our guest Adrian Shtuni. While Young Diogenes shares 3 possible vectors for terrorist use of AI. Links: https://warontherocks.com/2019/09/terrorist-groups-artificial-intelligence-and-killer-drones/ http://unicri.it/sites/default/files/2021-06/Malicious%20Use%20of%20AI%20-%20UNCCT-UNICRI%20Report_Web.pdf https://imctc.org/en/eLibrary/INTReports/Documents/Report-Issu-09-EN.pdf https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspxNewsID=2...
Aug 01, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Medlir and Chris discuss the future of work with our guest Elena Ardelean, while Young Diogenes reflects on the end of the world. Articles: https://ai4da.com/how-does-ai-impact-the-labor-market-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/ https://www.nber.org/papers/w24689 https://workofthefuture.mit.edu/research-post/artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-work/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleystahl/2021/03/10/how-ai-will-impact-the-future-of-work-and-life/?sh=1cae26eb79a3 https://www.bcg.com/publications...
Jul 18, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 9
