Technoskeptic Podcast

Technoskeptic Podcast

Mo Lotman, Art Keller, Elizabeth Brunner

Episodes 16
Avg. Duration 34m
Activity Dormant
Since Oct 2023
Latest Episode Feb 2025

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Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
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About This Podcast

The Technoskeptic examines the use and misuse of technology and technology's long-term effects on culture and society.

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Recent Episodes

Holly Elmore of Pause AI

Feb 18, 2025 1h 37m

Art Keller speaks with Holly Elmore, the Executive Director of the AI safety non-profit Pause AI. We cover a lot of ground, from the disturbing AI scheming in the recent Apollo Research report-to the…

Dr. Roman Yampolskiy on AI Safety

Nov 01, 2024 52m

Today we speak with Dr. Roman Yampolskiy.  Dr Yampolskiy is a tenured Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Speed School of Engineering at the University of…

Tim Kasser Talks Materialism

Apr 19, 2024 36m

Tim Kasser spent over two decades studying the relationship between materialism and well-being and penned the highly cited book, The High Price of Materialism. Mo Lotman interviewed Kasser while he…

Catherine Steiner-Adair on Tech and Child Development

Mar 29, 2024 38m

Catherine Steiner-Adair is a clinical and developmental psychologist whose empathic 2013 book The Big Disconnect was one of the first big warning signs about tech’s effect on growing children.Mo…

Tomaso Poggio of MIT's Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines

Mar 21, 2024 39m

Courtesy MITMo Lotman interviewed Tomaso Poggio, Director of MIT’s Center for Minds, Brains, and Machines. Poggio explained the basics of how AI models work, why we’re still a long way from the…

William Powers-Journalist and Media Critic

Mar 10, 2024 35m

In mid-2017, Mo Lotmon spoke to journalist and media critic Bill Powers. Powers authored a bestselling book, Hamlet’s BlackBerry, about stepping away from tech. Powers was one of the first to…

Danielle Allen on Civics Education and Democracy

Jan 28, 2024 33m

Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Kennedy School's Center for Democratic Governance and…

Dr. David Greenfield on Internet Addiction

Jan 21, 2024 30m

Mo Lotman speaks with psychiatrist, professor, and author David Greenfield, founder of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction. Dr. Greenfield was one of the first medical professionals to…

Will Reusch

Jan 14, 2024 49m

We were delighted to speak to Will Reusch, a high school teacher with 15 years of experience ranging from under-resourced inner-city schools to elite private academies. We discuss using social media…

Narayan Liebenson

Dec 16, 2023 30m

Narayan Liebenson, a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, speaks to Mo Lotman about the benefits of mindfulness and attention. We’ve suspected for…

Tim Wu

Dec 09, 2023 32m

Tim Wu is the Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia University, and a renowned scholar on communications networks, having coined the phrase “net neutrality.” He has…

Michaela Headmistress Katharine Birbalsingh

Dec 02, 2023 31m

We recently ran a lengthy print interview with Michaela Headmistress Katharine Birbalsingh about her school’s Digital Detox program and parents’ struggles in implementing it, Choosing Smart Kids over…

David Krakauer

Nov 26, 2023 31m

David Krakauer is President and Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute, a private, not-for-profit, independent research and education center. Krakauer focuses on the evolutionary…

Cathy O'Neil on Algorithms

Nov 16, 2023 33m

Mo Lotman interviews mathematician Cathy O’Neil. O’Neil worked in the private sector to make the algorithmic systems that automatically judge and score us. Deeply troubled by what she saw, she went…

"Geek Heresy" Author Kentaro Toyama

Nov 08, 2023 25m

Kentaro ToyamaAt the Technsoskeptic Magazine, we often find that technologists provide the most salient critiques of technology’s effects on society. In this episode, Mo Lotman speaks with Kentaro…

The TS Magazine Podcast talks Deep Work with Cal Newport

Oct 29, 2023 39m

Cal Newport, Deep Work, Productivity and Focus Get full access to The Technoskeptic Magazine at technoskeptic.substack.com/subscribe

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