Luca Bertuzzi joins Medlir for a discussion on the EU AI Act passed by the European Parliament on March 13th. Among other things, they discuss the likely impact of the law on innovation and governance within the EU and abroad, as well as criticisms that the act fails to address concerns regarding human rights and civil liberties. Links: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/03/13/lawmakers-approve-ai-act-with-overwhelming-majority?utm_content=buffer785c3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=li...
Mar 17, 2024•27 min•Season 7Ep. 7
Andrej Zwitter and Oskar Gstrein share with Chris what they will be keeping an eye out for in the AI regulatory space in 2024. They also discuss their latest work on the politics and governance of big data and artificial intelligence and their newly published Handbook on the Governance Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. In this discussion Andrej and Oskar explore the EU AI Act and challenges that datafication and algorithmic logics pose for governance, privacy, and ...
Mar 10, 2024•33 min•Season 7Ep. 6
Medlir sits down with Dr. Raluca Csernatoni and Dr. Marijn Hoijtink to discuss the escalating ‘innovation race’ among corporate giants. They discuss AI’s contribution to the rise in power of the private tech sector vs. the state, as well as the ‘existential threat’ and ‘superintelligence’ narratives around foundational AI models and how these shape specific socio-technical imaginaries of the future. They also dive into AI’s impact on geopolitical and military power, including Sino-American compe...
Mar 03, 2024•50 min
Medlir is joined by Baptiste Alloui-Cros, founder of the Strand Simulations Group and a wargame designer, to discuss how AI is likely to impact how we think, strategize, and prepare for war. Links: https://strandsimulationsgroup.com/ https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/does-artificial-intelligence-change-the-nature-of-war/ https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/what-is-the-utility-of-the-principles-of-war/ #wargaming, #simulation, #AI, #warfare, #strategy Send us a text...
Feb 25, 2024•28 min•Season 7Ep. 4
This week Medlir and our guest Rebekah Dowd, an academic, scholar, and author of The Birth of Digital Human Rights: Digitized Data Governance as a Human Rights Issue in the EU , explore how and why the EU became a leader in the realm of digital human rights. Links: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-82969-8 https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence https://www.globalg...
Feb 11, 2024•44 min•Season 7Ep. 3
In this episode Chris talks to Arnaud Kurze of Montclair State University, currently a Digital Studies Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Arnaud has carried out groundbreaking research in digital humanities, memory studies, and transitional justice and offers his insights into AI and virtual memory spaces, accountability, Links: Kluge Fellowship: https://www.loc.gov/programs/john-w-kluge-center/scholars-in-residence/current-scholars-in-residence/ Wilson Center: https:...
Feb 04, 2024•30 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Medlir and Chris speak with Dr. Joachim Koops of the Global Governance Institute and Leiden University to discuss the launch of the AI Global Governance program. They further discuss the challenges associated with the question of governance more broadly. Links: https://www.globalgovernance.eu/about-us https://www.globalgovernance.eu/education/aigg Send us a text...
Jan 28, 2024•38 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Young Diogenes (YD), Medlir and Chris discuss trends and developments in AI for 2023 (Democratization, Personalization, Twinning, GenAI, Multi-modal AI, AI ethics). We also discuss advances in behavioral AI for communications security, weather forecasting, material science, and discussion of the recent chaos at OpenAI (based on reporting by Karen Hao, the final link below provides some really interesting additional details on the events inside OpenAI if you'd like to get caught up). Crypto Scamm...
Dec 17, 2023•41 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Medlir sits down with Emma Morrison and Justin Lynch to discuss ways AI can help analysts in understanding significant events, attributing actions, and presenting usable information to decision-makers, while reflecting on how AI may adversely affect a country's ability to signal credibly, or understand its adversaries intentions accurately. Links: https://sais.jhu.edu/kissinger/programs-and-projects/kissinger-center-papers/deterrence-through-ai-enabled-detection-and-attribution https://www.nscai...
Dec 03, 2023•44 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Medlir discusses the impact of AI on development with Katya Klinova, Head of AI, Labor, and the Economy division of the Partnership on AI. There she oversees (among other things) the AI and Shared Prosperity Initiative, asking how to make AI progress in the workforce more inclusive, as well as the potential impact of AI on the economic growth prospects of low- and middle-income countries. Links: Governing AI to Advance Shared Prosperity - published version on the website of Oxford University Pre...
Nov 19, 2023•43 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Medlir is joined for a wide-ranging conversation on the shifting landscape of AI governance by Dr. Justin Bullock, a Senior Researcher at Convergence Analysis, in the UK. Dr. Bullock brings a wealth of expertise in public administration, artificial intelligence (AI), organizational theory, and management. He is the lead editor of Oxford University Press’ Handbook of AI Governance. Links: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/41989 https://justinbullock.org/academic-works/ https://justinbullock....
Nov 05, 2023•56 min•Season 6Ep. 5
YD, Chris, and Medlir discuss some recent uses of AI, to quickly and easily generate political influence campaigns. Many of us are already aware of the rapidity and volume at which AI can generate content. But in this episode, we discuss some of the ways in which AI quality is improving, as well as some different mechanisms being tested to maximize the intensity and appeal to our emotions and biases. Links: Cyber Propaganda & Influence Ops: Rising Asia-Pacific Threats | Security Insider (mic...
Oct 22, 2023•25 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Medlir is joined by Dr. Joseph Vukov, Associate Director of the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago, whose research explores questions at the intersection of ethics, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind, and at the intersection of science and religion. Links: https://www.scienceforhumans.com/the-team https://mailchi.mp/scu/itec-handbook https://www.focolaremedia.com/bookstore/perils-perfection?v=492 https://www.focolaremedia.com/sites/default/files/202...
Oct 08, 2023•41 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Medlir Mema is joined by Dr. Branka Marijan, a Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares, where she leads the research on the military and security implications of emerging technologies. Her research interests include trends in warfare, civilian protection, use of drones, and civil-military relations. Links: https://www.g20interfaith.org/branka-marijan/ https://www.ploughshares.ca/author/branka-marijan US-Russia confrontation on AI https://www.cigionline.org/articles/beyond-ukraine-ai-and-the-ne...
Sep 24, 2023•39 min•Season 6Ep. 2
How do states use digital tools to deceive, disseminate disinformation, and deepen authoritarianism? In this episode Chris talks with Marc Owen Jones about digital authoritarianism in the Middle East, who sheds light on this question and much more in a far-reaching discussion. Show Notes https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/digital-authoritarianism-in-the-middle-east/ Send us a text
Sep 17, 2023•27 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Medlir discusses the likely impact of AI and Emerging Tech with Dr. Chris Moran and Dr. Joe Burton, authors of a recent study which argues that talk of an AI-fueled intelligence revolution is premature. Links: The US Intelligence Community, Global Security, and AI: From Secret Intelligence to Smart Spying The Future of Analysis A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn China Is Flirting With AI Catastrophe Russia's Use of Uncrewed Systems in Ukraine Send us a text...
Jul 23, 2023•36 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Chris, Medlir, and Young Diogenes get back to a sequel from season 4. We continue exploring the future of AI integration into research, provenance, and predictions about the future of AI, as well as some light-hearted jabs at each other. Adept Raises $350 Million To Build AI That Learns How To Use Software For You (forbes.com) Adobe Firefly (Beta) Four Reasons Data Provenance Is Vital For Analytics And AI (forbes.com) "Did ChatGPT really say that?": Provenance in the age of Generative AI. | Libr...
Jul 09, 2023•21 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Medlir sits down with CrossPlag's Dr. Alejtin Berisha to discuss the challenges of Higher Education in the age of AI and the promise of AI originality detection tools like CrossPlag for educators hoping to incorporate tools like ChatGPT in their curriculum. Links: CrossPlag Website CrossPlag Review 'Everybody is cheating': Why this teacher has adopted an open ChatGPT policy Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers Send us a text...
Jul 02, 2023•29 min•Season 5Ep. 8
In this episode Kutoma Wakunuma, Damien Okaibedi Eke, and Simisola Akintoye join Chris to discuss their latest edited volume, Responsible AI in Africa. In this conversation we explore Africa’s exclusion from conversations on AI ethics, epistemic injustice, the concept of Ubuntu, and innovations from Africa’s silicon savannas. Link(s): Responsible AI in Africa Send us a text...
Jun 25, 2023•32 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Medlir sits down with Dr. Jeannie Johnson, co-founder and Director of the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence (CAI), to discuss CAI’s mission, what it means to create the nation’s first MA program in Anticipatory intelligence, and the importance of combining expertise in national security and geopolitics with cutting-edge instruction in cyber threats, data analytics, and emergent technology. Links: Jeannie Johnson Founding Director | Center for Anticipatory Intelligence Associate Professor | De...
Jun 18, 2023•31 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Medlir talks with Evrim Tan, the co-author (with Joep Crompvoets) of The new digital era governance : How new digital technologies are shaping public governance, a fantastic recent publication that seeks to draw important distinctions between the 'old' digital era governance and the 'new' AI-based one. Links: The new digital era governance OECD Working Papers on Public Governance Send us a text...
Jun 04, 2023•43 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Our lighthearted yearly conversation about Television and Film containing Artificial Intelligence -- featuring the ever delightful Chris, Medlir, and of course the incredibly handsome Young Diogenes. What will these goofballs pick and argue about this year? (Ed. note: probably almost nothing related to the content, eh? *zing* In seriousness, they cover all of their picks, sling around a few digs at each other, and include some interesting surprises for our listeners. Thank you all so much for li...
May 14, 2023•37 min•Season 5Ep. 4
In this episode Chris talks with Maureen Webb about her latest book, Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance and Authoritarianism (MIT Press, 2000). Webb explores the hacker ethic, Julian Assange & the cypherpunk movement, and the future of democracy. Links Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power Send us a text...
May 07, 2023•39 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Medlir talks with Dr. Sylvie Borau, an associate professor at TBS Education, Toulouse, France, where she teaches ethical marketing and consumer behavior. They discuss gender imbalance in AI and the issue of 'Benevolent Sexism.' Together they also consider the implications of one of Dr. Boreau's recent studies which concludes that female bots are endowed with more positive human qualities than male bots, and they are perceived as more human than male bots when compared to both animals and machine...
Apr 30, 2023•29 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Medlir talks with his guest, Ryan Washington, a former Marine working with Special Intelligence. They discuss the threat of extremist violence as an important security threat and, perhaps more importantly, a societal threat -- especially as both governments and perpetrators of violence look to co-opt AI into their arsenal. Links: https://www.csis.org/analysis/pushed-extremes-domestic-terrorism-amid-polarization-and-protest http://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/National-Strategy-fo...
Apr 23, 2023•33 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Chris talks with Ngor Luong and Channing Lee of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University about their recently published report Chinese AI Investment and Commercial Activity in Southeast Asia. Link: https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/chinese-ai-investment-and-commercial-activity-in-southeast-asia Send us a text...
Mar 12, 2023•27 min•Season 4Ep. 12
In this episode Chris discusses AI assisted grading and the future of assessments in higher education with the CEO of Graide, Manjinder Kainth. Starting with a discussion of ChatGPT our guest presents new developments and tools for AI assisted grading and also shares some advice for those seeking to embark on their own start-up journeys. Links: https://www.graide.co.uk/ https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2022/artificial-intelligence-offers-solution-to-heavy-marking-loads Send us a text...
Feb 26, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 11
In this episode Chris discusses developments in biometric surveillance with Bojan Perkov of the SHARE Foundation who returns to OnAiR to discuss a proposed law on internal affairs in Serbia that would have provided a legal framework for mass biometric surveillance in public spaces. Show Notes: https://www.sharefoundation.info/en/round-two-of-the-battle-against-mass-biometric-surveillance/ https://www.sharefoundation.info/en/new-policing-draft-laws/ https://www.sharefoundation.info/en/biometrics-...
Feb 12, 2023•33 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Young Diogenes, Chris, and Medlir share some musings on the future of Human and AI collaboration. In light of some of the challenges faced by academia (since the launch of ChatGPT), we discuss what an early integration of AI and word processing might look like. Medlir chastises tech companies for launching products without sufficient vetting. Send us a text
Jan 29, 2023•28 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Medlir is joined by Eric Stoddart from the St. Andrews School of Divinity for a conversation about belief, Practical Theology, AI, surveillance, and the Common Good. Links: https://ericstoddart.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2021/01/03/new-book/ https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/new_technologies https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/29/the-religious-divide-on-views-of-technologies-that-would-enhance-human-beings/ Send us a text...
Jan 08, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 8
