HeyJaredPolitechs
A podcast exploring the inherent political nature of technology
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HEAVENLY AI (opens the original)
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At the beginning of the season, we felt we had a pretty good handle on HELLISH AI: a H yper-scaled E xpansive L arge L anguage model which is I mperial, S ucks up all the electricity and water, and causes H uman suffering. We wondered whether a different way was possible, a HEAVENLY AI that is High quality, with E thical curation of data, A ccesible to individuals and smaller organisations, V iable, E nvironmentally sustainable, with N arrowly focused applications, using a L anguage model, that
Redemption? - Dr. Chris Gilliard (opens the original)
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Friend of the show Dr. Chris Gilliard returns to catch us up on what's been happening in the world of surveillance since last time we talked. From Ring-powered "pet finder" systems to Meta/Rayban-wearing Glassholes to Anthropic's performative handwringing over their Department of War contract, it's not very encouraging out there. You might be able to guess what Chris thinks about the question of whether any of this technology can be redeemed. Mentioned in this episode: On the Impossibility of Et
Decomputing - Dan McQuillan (opens the original)
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Dr. Dan McQuillan, Senior Lecturer in Critical AI at Goldsmiths, University of London, defines Decomputing as "a 50:50 hybrid of decolonial and degrowth approaches." He joins us to unpack that further and pick up on some of the themes from his prescient book from June of 2022, "Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence", which came out a mere four and a half months before OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world. Mentioned in this episode: Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Appro
Rhetorical Technology - Emily M. Bender (opens the original)
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Josh and Ray are joined by computational linguist Dr. Emily M. Bender to discuss what "AI" really is, and why the slippery nature of the term is very much intentional. We look at the eugenicist history of the quest to define and measure human intelligence and try to understand what the project of "artificial intelligence" is, then explore LLMs as synthetic text extruding machines and automation technology, as opposed to a machine god on the cusp of being born. Mentioned in this episode: Mystery
Libraries - Alison Macrina and Kay Slater (opens the original)
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In order to answer the question of whether we still need libraries when we have chatbots, we're joined by Alison Macrina, founder and Executive Director of Library Freedom Project, and Kay Slater, member of LFP and library worker in Chicago. Alison and Kay dispel some myths, talk about how libraries have changed with technology, how libraries are funded, how library workers have a central role to play in resisting AI, and how members of the public like us and our listeners can support libraries.
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