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Computer Says Maybe — 119 episodes

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Computer Says Kill: The Blank Check to Beat China w/ Lis Siegel

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Short: RightsGone? Why Zambia May Have Pulled the Plug on RightsCon

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Computer Says Kill: A License for Unlimited War w/ Amos Toh

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Computer Says Kill: How a Calculator Company Reshaped Modern Warfare w/ Jeff Stern

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Computer Says Kill: Collapsing the Chain w/ with Matt Mahmoudi

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Computer Says Kill: New Series Trailer

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Fantasy Factory: Luddite Horror w/ Brian Merchant

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How to Scare a Fascist w/ Naomi Klein

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Fantasy Factory: One Filmmaker's Fight Against AI w/ Valerie Veatch

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Short: Grand Theft Grammarly w/ Julia Angwin & Peter Romer-Friedman

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Fantasy Factory: AI Supervillains w/ Anat Shenker-Osorio

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Fantasy Factory: AGI is Scientifically Impossible w/ Adam Becker

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Livestream: The People’s Policy: Holding Big Tech Accountable

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Lingo Bingo at the India AI Summit w/ Naomi Klein, Timnit Gebru, Nikhil Dey, and Chinasa Okolo

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Is Claude Out of the War Business? w/ Amos Toh

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Lingo Bingo at the India AI Summit w/ Meredith Whittaker, Audrey Tang, Abeba Birhane, and Usha Ramanathan

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Lingo Bingo at the India AI Summit w/ Karen Hao, Joan Kinyua, Chenai Chair, and Rafael Grohmann

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The Vaporstate: All Hail Scale at the India AI Summit

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The Vaporstate: Buy Blair, Sell AI

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The Vaporstate: Brazil is Banking on Apps

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The Vaporstate: ID in India

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The Vaporstate: A New Mini-Series

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The Age of Noise w/ Eryk Salvaggio (replay)

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Gotcha! Enshittification w/ Cory Doctorow (replay)

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Worker Power & Big Tech Bossmen w/ David Seligman (replay)

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Reporting on AI’s climate injustices w/ Karen Hao (replay)

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How to (Actually) Keep Kids Safe Online w/ Kate Sim (replay)

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Digitisation, Privatisation, and Human Centipedes: Our Learnings from 2025

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Ben Collins: Computer Says MozFest

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Audrey Tang: Computer Says MozFest

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Luisa Franco Machado: Computer Says MozFest

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Abeba Birhane: Computer Says MozFest

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Computer Says MozFest 2025

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Who Knows? Fact-Finding in a Failing State w/ HRDAG and Data & Society

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Who Knows? Independent Researchers in a Platform Era w/ Brandi Geurkink

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Tres Publique: Algorithms in the French Welfare State w/ Soizic Pénicaud

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Straight to Video: From Rodney King to Sora w/ Sam Gregory

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The Toxic Relationship Between AI & Journalism w/ Nic Dawes

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Unlearning in the AI Era w/ Nabiha Syed at Mozilla Foundation

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You Seem Lonely. Have a Robot w/ Stevie Chancellor

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Local Laws for Global Technologies w/ Hillary Ronen

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Gotcha! Enshittification w/ Cory Doctorow

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Gotcha! ScamGPT w/ Lana Swartz & Alice Marwick

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NYC Live: Let Them Eat Compute

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Are AI Companies Cooking the Books? w/ Sarah Myers West

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Gotcha! How MLMs Ate the Economy w/ Bridget Read

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Gotcha! The Crypto Grift w/ Mark Hays

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Gotcha!

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Nodestar: Turning Networks into Knowledge w/ Andrew Trask

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Nodestar: Building Blacksky w/ Rudy Fraser

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Nodestar: The Eternal September w/ Mike Masnick

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Short: UK Groups Sue To Block Data Center Expansion

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Big Tech’s Bogus Vision for the Future w/ Paris Marx

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Consciously Uncoupling from Silicon Valley w/ Cori Crider

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After the FAccT: Labour and Misrepresentation

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Short: Musk: Reanimating Apartheid w/ Nic Dawes

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After the FAccT: Materiality and Militarisation

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Making Myths to Make Money w/ AI Now

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Is Computer Science Made for Dudes? w/ Felienne Hermans

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The Elephant in the Algorithm: Live from ZEG Fest in Tbilisi

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Is Digitisation Killing Democracy? w/ Marietje Schaake

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AI in Gaza: Live from Mexico City

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Logging Off w/ Adele Walton

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Short: Sam Altman’s World w/ Billy Perrigo

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The Collective Intelligence Project w/ Divya Siddarth and Zarinah Agnew

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Net0++: Data Center Sprawl | NEW Research from The Maybe

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Net 0++: AI Thirst in a Water-Scarce World w/ Julie McCarthy

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Short: Open AI for...Countries? w/ Marietje Schaake

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Short: What Just Happened to 23andMe? w/ Jenny Reardon

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Terra Nullius: Who Owns the Skies? w/ Julia Powles

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Terra Nullius: Who Owns Outer Space? w/ Heather Allansdottir

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How to (Actually) Keep Kids Safe Online w/ Kate Sim

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Worker Power & Big Tech Bossmen w/ David Seligman

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AI Can’t Fix This: Live in London

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Technology Nationalism in India w/ Divij Joshi

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AI Assistant or AI Boss? w/ Data & Society

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Regulating Privacy in an AI Era w/ Carly Kind

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Dogwhistles: Networked Transphobia Online

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VCs Are World Eaters w/ Catherine Bracy

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Power Over Precision w/ Jenny Reardon

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The Taiwan Bottleneck w/ Brian Chen

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AI Safety’s Spiral of Urgency w/ Shazeda Ahmed

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Live Show: Paris Post-Mortem

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Defying Datafication w/ Dr Abeba Birhane (PLUS: Paris AI Action Summit)

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DEI Season Finale: Part Two

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DEI Season Finale: Part One

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DEI: the final season + Alex Kotran on the Future of Education

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To be Seen and not Watched w/ Tawana Petty

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Our learnings from 2024

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A $20bn Search Engine w/ Michelle Meagher

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The Age of Noise w/ Eryk Salvaggio

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The Happy Few: Open Source AI (part two)

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The Happy Few: Open Source AI (part one)

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Algorithmically cutting benefits w/ Kevin De Liban

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Election Debrief

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US Election Special w/ Spencer Overton

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Net 0 ++: Reporting on AI’s climate injustices w/ Karen Hao

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Net 0++: Concrete arguments for AI

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Net 0++: Big Dirty Data Centres

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Net 0++: Microsoft’s greenwashing w/ Holly Alpine

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Chasing Away Sidewalk Labs w/ Bianca Wylie

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Will Newsom Veto the AI Safety Bill? w/ Teri Olle

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The stories we tell ourselves about AI

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Bridging The Divide w/ Issie Lapowsky

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Why was the CEO of Telegram just arrested? w/ Mallory Knodel

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Exhibit X: What did we learn?

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Exhibit X: The Community

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Exhibit X: The Courts

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Exhibit X: The Litigators

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Exhibit X: The Whistleblower

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Exhibit X: Tech and Tobacco

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New mini-series: Exhibit X

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What the FAccT? Evidence of bias. Now what?

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What the FAccT? First law, bad law

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What the FAccT?: Abandoning Algorithms

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What the FAccT?: Reformers and Radicals

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Protesting Project Nimbus: employee organising to end Google’s contract with Israel w/ Dr.Kate Sim

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The Human in the Loop: What's it like to work in the AI supply chain?

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2024 Elections: Is AI going to wreak havoc?