Genevieve Bell, Distinguished Professor at Australian National University, discusses the history and relevance of cybernetics, frameworks for the past, present, and future, and decolonizing AI. The podcast explores the origins of AI and its connection to learning and intelligence, while also delving into the concept of decolonizing AI and unraveling historical articulations. It emphasizes the need to critically examine power dynamics and challenges the assumptions made about learning and intelligence in AI. Genevieve's work offers a broader perspective on technology and cybernetics.

Silicon Valley futurist Genevieve Bell discusses the concerns about AI wiping out humanity, the need for a global pause in AI development, and how indigenous systems thinking can save us. The podcast explores cybernetics and its origins, the relationship between technology and imagination, and the importance of critically interrogating technologies. It also highlights the value of indigenous complexity theory and the ancient fish weir system as examples of alternative approaches to solving complex problems.