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How might we stop role-playing as machines?
In our last Newmoonsletter, we shared reflections on lives lost, mugs broken and repaired, and an invitation to give love one more chance before we collectively break under pressure beyond…
How do we compost our sh*t to create the soil for future thriving?
In our last Newmoonsletter, we invited you to spend a bit of time in your own head – and body – to reflect on how you’re dealing with what feel like the end times by sharing the Empathy Map for End…
What’s the role AI and digital tech could play in collective futurecrafting?
In this episode, we invite you to turn away from all the awful news, and instead imagine how we might craft a different world, together. By sitting together in small circles and having conversations…
How do our human bodies fit into an AI-enabled future?
In this episode, we want to shift our attention back to our human bodies. Which seems fitting for the first episode of 2025, a year in which we can longer take our bodily autonomy for granted. A year…
How intelligent do AI companions actually need to be?
In this episode, we wanted to explore what sort of intelligence we are actually looking for in our AI tools and companions. In the 1960s, Joseph Weizenbaum developed ELIZA: a rule-based chatbot…
Why aren’t more people using AI conversational interfaces for conversational learning?
In this episode, we wanted to explore the conversational side of our AI companions. When it comes to AI capabilities, most of the focus in tech remains on productivity gains and even imaginary…
How do we embrace the lunacy of tech with playfulness? (And lessons from Middle-earth.)
In this episode, we go there and back again to where our unexpected journey began. Twelve moon cycles ago, we started writing the Pathfinders Newmoonsletter both as a satire of the tech industry and…
A chat with ChatGPT on AI chatbots as mediators
This is a special follow-up episode to our previous exploration on whether we should use AI chatbots as mediators in human affairs. To add the chatbot perspective to the discussion, we invited…
Should we use AI chatbots as mediators in human affairs?
This episode was inspired by our observations that ChatGPT seems to have a stronger moral compass than its makers. When asked about the ethics of questionable business decisions such as using…
What should we do with the time that new technologies save?
In this episode, we wonder about time. The time tech companies promise to save with almost every new product or feature release. We’ve been hearing these time-saving promises for so long that we…
How can we prompt biased AI assistants to help us think different and imagine diverse tech futures?
In this episode, we invite all the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers to think different with us, like Apple used to advertise in the late 90ies. But instead of worshiping…
How do we nurture weird online communal gardens where we can play together?
In this lunation cycle, we wanted to step off the AI hype train and turn our attention to online communal gardens. The online spaces that were supposed to make it easier for us to connect and…
What data are we feeding to our Al models, and what are they turning into?
In this lunation cycle, we were inspired by the saying: “You are what you eat” and wondered what it means for AI golems that have ingested terabytes of data from often questionable sources. In this…
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Pathfinders Podcast has published 13 episodes since April 2024, covering topics in Society & Culture, Technology.
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