Welcome to Siliconsciousness, the DSR Network podcast focusing on the artificial intelligence revolution, politics, and policy.
Latest episodes
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46 min
Is AI Moving Too Fast for Government or Media to Keep Up?
The midterms are just over a week away and for the first time, artificial intelligence will play a major role in motivating voters. Data centers have become a major point of concer…
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36 min
The Democrats’ Plan to Get AI Right
The midterms are only a few weeks away and, with any luck, Democrats will ride a blue wave back into power. While there are a great many issues to grapple with, none are more press…
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30 min
How Can Democracy Survive the Age of AI?
There is a lot to question when it comes to the future of AI. But what does the AI boom mean for the future of our democracy? David Rothkopf and political scientist Dave Karpf of G…
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32 min
With AI, are We Walking the Dog or is the Dog Walking Us?
As AI systems become more autonomous and are delegated more and more power across industries, we have to ask ourselves: are we walking the dog, or is the dog walking us? Is volunta…
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43 min
Getting a Grip When It Comes to AI Dread
AI dread has spread. Even CEOs of major AI companies are forecasting doom and gloom, including the potential end of mankind. But how much of what they say is an honest appraisal, a…
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33 min
Why Is Trump Ok With AI Armageddon?
Top AI researchers seem to be increasingly convinced that AI is about to kill us all, so why isn’t our President more concerned? After an Anthropic researcher quit the company warn…
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41 min
The Wake Up Call Coming for AI VCs and Silicon Valley
Venture capitalists and Silicon Valley have been riding high on the artificial intelligence wave. Yet with this runaway enthusiasm comes the risk for an even more calamitous bubble…
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44 min
The Unabomber, Replacement Theory and the Crazy Evolving Politics of AI
Politics makes strange bedfellows, and AI is making things stranger still. AI data centers are just one of the many ways that artificial intelligence and its by products are taking…
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38 min
The US and China Need to Have a Serious Conversation About AI
Why can’t the US and China just get along when it comes to artificial intelligence? As the two nations jockey for an edge in AI, President’s Trump and Xi prepare for a consequentia…
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41 min
The Scary Geopolitics of AI
Are we being too laissez-faire in our approach to artificial intelligence? Rarely has there been a technology so profoundly important, yet so concentrated in the hands of a few pri…
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43 min
AIrrogance: Why Some Tech Bros May Be Headed for a Fall
The tech bros have made their bed, and soon it’s going to be time to lie in it. From Palantir to OpenAI, the figureheads of the major AI companies have endeared themselves to the T…
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41 min
AI Goes Rogue
An OpenAI model has gone rogue. Not only has it gone rogue, but it hacked Hugging Face completely unprompted and without approval. That’s pretty scary. But just how much of this st…
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37 min
Entering a New Chapter in the Debate on AI Policy
The landscape of AI policy is changing rapidly. From a one year data center moratorium in New York to sweeping new energy laws in Thailand, it’s clear that governments around the w…
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40 min
Like It or Not, the AI Bubble Is Real
The question is when, not if, the AI bubble is going to pop. As tech companies see share values skyrocket, it becomes more clear with each passing day that the value of these compa…
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33 min
How Can Democrats Get Their Act Together on AI?
After recent primaries, it’s clear that AI is top of mind for many Americans. Whether it’s a mistrust of AI as a whole or just the people at the helms of the companies reaping mass…
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44 min
AI & Group Chats of the Apocalypse
Twists of recent history have led to deep distrust of the AI sector and political decisions about AI—and with good reason for both. With expert Dave Karpf, we discuss how we got to…
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33 min
Who Will Find the First AI Jobs Bite the Most Painful?
It’s time to get serious about the effects of AI on how we work. Like every technological revolution, the advent of AI is causing tectonic shifts in labor. But this time, it’s entr…
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50 min
Pope Leo Trolls Trump on AI…and much much more
The Pope has spoken on AI, and he has some concerns. The Pope’s new encyclical warns of profound dangers associated with artificial intelligence and calls for global action. He’s n…
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The Great and Good Disruptive Power of World Models
Leading the way in artificial intelligence doesn’t just take the most powerful chips and biggest data centers — it takes a cultural shift towards AI literacy. Eric Xing, President…
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33 min
AI Prepares for a Political Pivot
The tech bros could be in for a rude awakening come November. We’ve seen the big names in AI increasingly cozy up with Republicans, but they may have forgotten that there is anothe…