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episode 11: ‘Corporations are Robots’: David Runciman on AI, states and the first singularity
David Runciman is a professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the host of the critically acclaimed podcast Talking Politics. In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, he speaks to Alina Utrata about why corporations are robots, how singularity might have already come about, why we should think seriously about the political philosophy of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs, and what technologies he worries about in the future...
episode 12: Elon Musk, Twitter and the ‘Great Men’ of Social Media
A conversation with John Naughton and Josh Simons
episode 14: Time, Space and Social Media: The Politics of Technology and Temporality
A Conversation with Nanna Saeten