Episodes 7
Avg. Duration 49m
Activity Highly Active
Since Aug 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Months
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70%
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David Edgerton on Historical Analogies, Technology, and AI

Jun 09, 2026 50m

David Edgerton is Professor of History at Kings College London. His book Shock of the Old challenged the way we think about innovation, arguing that we systematically overvalue the new and ignore the…

How is AI changing our experience of Time?

Apr 01, 2026 50m

The rhythm of social media is frenetic. But what if AI can give us more choice about the speed at which we live our lives?In his article ‘Time Machines’ Nicklas Berild Lundblad outlines the thesis…

Can Europe Catch Up on AI? with Carl Frey

Feb 12, 2026 42m

I spoke to Carl Benedikt Frey, Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute and one of the most cited scholars on the political economy of technology. His new book How Progress Ends argues that…

The Age of Emergency - With Jonathan White

Jan 07, 2026 46m

Jonathan White is Professor of Politics at the London School of Economics and author of In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea. His research explores how time has been used and thought about…

Is China really racing for AGI? with Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

Dec 10, 2025 51m

Sean Ó hÉigeartaigh is Program Director of AI Futures and Responsibility at the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. I spoke to him about his article The Most Dangerous…

Compute is not the answer to AI sovereignty with Hamish Low

Nov 11, 2025 1h 7m

In this conversation with Hamish Low we discuss his recent article ‘Compute is not the answer to AI sovereignty’. Hamish is an AI Policy Fellow at IAPS and I think provides a really nuanced way to…

Will we ever understand AI? Breaking apart LLMs with Lee Sharkey

Aug 15, 2025 55m

Why we don't understand LLMs ... yetWhat's really happening inside models when they generate text? Lee Sharkey, Principal Investigator at Goodfire AI and co-founder of Apollo Research, and I discuss…

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