Technoskeptic Podcast
1) Holly Elmore of Pause AI
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 ...Show More
2) Dr. Roman Yampolskiy on AI Safety
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 L...Show More
3) Tim Kasser Talks Materialism
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 ...Show More
4) Catherine Steiner-Adair on Tech and Child Development
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 Lotma...Show More
5) Tomaso Poggio of MIT's Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines
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 dystop...Show More
6) William Powers-Journalist and Media Critic
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 publicl...Show More
7) Danielle Allen on Civics Education and Democracy
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 Inn...Show More
8) Dr. David Greenfield on Internet Addiction
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 r...Show More
9) Will Reusch
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 i...Show More
10) Narayan Liebenson
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 y...Show More