Age of AI

Medlir sits down with Dr. Jeannie Johnson, co-founder and Director of the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence (CAI), to discuss CAI’s mission, what it means to create the nation’s first MA program in Anticipatory intelligence, and the importance of combining expertise in national security and geopolitics with cutting-edge instruction in cyber threats, data analytics, and emergent technology.Links:Jeannie Johnson Founding Director | Center for Anticipatory Intelligence Associate Professor | Department of Political ScienceUtah State University | Center for Anticipatory IntelligenceDr. Johnson's Ted Talk | Surviving the 21st century with interdisciplinary teamsCultural Topography: A New Research Tool for Intelligence Analysis#CAI #CTAF #culturaltopographyanalyticframework Send us a text

Medlir talks with Evrim Tan, the co-author (with Joep Crompvoets) of The new digital era governance: How new digital technologies are shaping public governance, a fantastic recent publication that seeks to draw important distinctions between the 'old' digital era governance and the 'new' AI-based one.Links:The new digital era governanceOECD Working Papers on Public GovernanceSend us a text

Our lighthearted yearly conversation about Television and Film containing Artificial Intelligence -- featuring  the ever delightful Chris, Medlir, and of course the incredibly handsome Young Diogenes.  What will these goofballs pick and argue about this year? (Ed. note: probably almost nothing related to the content, eh? *zing* In seriousness, they cover all of their picks, sling around a few digs at each other, and include some interesting surprises for our listeners. Thank you all so much for listening!)Links:2022 Popular AI TV ShowsAndorHello TomorrowIron HeartPicard Season 3SeveranceSolosStar Wars: The Bad BatchThe PeripheralThe Rise of AIWestworld Season 4 2022 Popular AI FilmsAfter YangAI love youAvatar the way of waterBig BugBlack BoxBlack Panther: Wakanda ForeverBlankCoded BiasI AM MOTHERJung_EM3GANMoonfallThe Artifice GirlThe Tomorrow WarSend us a text

In this episode Chris talks with Maureen Webb about her latest book, Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance and Authoritarianism (MIT Press, 2000). Webb explores the hacker ethic, Julian Assange & the cypherpunk movement, and the future of democracy.LinksCoding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting PowerSend us a text

Medlir talks with Dr. Sylvie Borau, an associate professor at TBS Education, Toulouse, France, where she teaches ethical marketing and consumer behavior.  They discuss gender imbalance in AI and the issue of 'Benevolent Sexism.'  Together they also consider the implications of one of Dr. Boreau's recent studies which concludes that female bots are endowed with more positive human qualities than male bots, and they are perceived as more human than male bots when compared to both animals and machines.The most human bot: Female gendering increases humanness perceptions of bots and acceptance of AII'd blush if I couldMen Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing ThemOn the Origins of “The March of Progress”I Was a Human SiriSiri owns 46% of the mobile voice assistant marketSend us a text

Medlir talks with his guest, Ryan Washington, a former Marine working with Special Intelligence.  They discuss the threat of extremist violence as an important security threat and, perhaps more importantly, a societal threat -- especially as both governments and perpetrators of violence look to co-opt AI into their arsenal.Links:https://www.csis.org/analysis/pushed-extremes-domestic-terrorism-amid-polarization-and-protesthttp://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/National-Strategy-for-Countering-Domestic-Terrorism.pdfSend us a text

Chris talks with Ngor Luong and Channing Lee of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University about their recently published report Chinese AI Investment and Commercial Activity in Southeast Asia. Link:https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/chinese-ai-investment-and-commercial-activity-in-southeast-asiaSend us a text

In this episode Chris discusses AI assisted grading and the future of assessments in higher education with the CEO of Graide, Manjinder Kainth. Starting with a discussion of ChatGPT our guest presents new developments and tools for AI assisted grading and also shares some advice for those seeking to embark on their own start-up journeys. Links:https://www.graide.co.uk/https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2022/artificial-intelligence-offers-solution-to-heavy-marking-loadsSend us a text

In this episode Chris discusses developments in biometric surveillance with Bojan Perkov of the SHARE Foundation who returns to OnAiR to discuss a proposed law on internal affairs in Serbia that would have provided a legal framework for mass biometric surveillance in public spaces. Show Notes:https://www.sharefoundation.info/en/round-two-of-the-battle-against-mass-biometric-surveillance/https://www.sharefoundation.info/en/new-policing-draft-laws/https://www.sharefoundation.info/en/biometrics-again-in-the-draft-law-on-internal-affairs/Send us a text

Young Diogenes, Chris, and Medlir share some musings on the future of Human and AI collaboration.  In light of some of the challenges faced by academia (since the launch of ChatGPT), we discuss what an early integration of AI and word processing might look like.  Medlir chastises tech companies for launching products without sufficient vetting.Send us a text