UC Berkeley (Audio) Podcast
1) Evolution and Animal Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, explores the evolutionary roots of consciousness by surveying animal evolution and the emergence of fel...Show More
2) How the Supreme Court Divided America
The 2021-2022 term of the U.S. Supreme Court is widely considered to be the most consequential in living memory. Bruen, West Virginia v. EPA, Dobbs—the Court’s rulings in these controversial cases wea...Show More
3) American Democracy and the Crisis of Majority Rule
America’s contemporary democratic predicament is rooted in its historically incomplete democratization. Born in a pre-democratic era, the constitution’s balancing of majority rule and minority rights ...Show More
4) Debunking AI: Ensuring Artificial Intelligence Doesn’t Destroy Our World with Stuart Russell
TecHype is a groundbreaking series that cuts through the hype around emerging technologies. Each episode debunks misunderstandings around emerging tech, provides insight into benefits and risks, and i...Show More
5) Debunking Deepfakes: Unmasking Digital Deceptions with Hany Farid
TecHype is a groundbreaking series that cuts through the hype around emerging technologies to get to what matters. Each episode debunks misunderstandings around emerging tech, provides insight into be...Show More
6) How to Create AI to Solve Real-World Problems
This series on artificial intelligence explores recent breakthroughs of AI, its broader societal implications and its future potential. In this presentation, Sergey Levine, associate professor of Elec...Show More
7) How Not To Destroy The World With AI
This series on artificial intelligence explores recent breakthroughs of AI, its broader societal implications and its future potential. In this presentation, Stuart Russell, professor of computer scie...Show More
8) A Critical Look At Modern Eurocentric Anthropology
French anthropologist Philippe Descola examines the evolution of modern thinking about societies. He argues that the rooting of the descriptive tools of the social sciences in Enlightenment philosoph...Show More
9) Constructing a Republican Executive with Michael McConnell
As the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia in 1789, there was no experience, anywhere in the world, of a successful republican executive over an extensive nation — one ...Show More
10) War in Ukraine: What's Next?
Ukrainian Member of Parliament Inna Sovsun joins Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, and Janet Napolitano, Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy and former Secretary...Show More