Archive - imperfect offerings

How the right to education is undermined by AI

A response to UNESCO's call on AI and the Future of Education

May 15

April 2025

Talking with Katie Conrad about AI and human rights

A wonderful return call with the author of 'Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights in Education'

Apr 14

59:23

March 2025

Audrey Watters on AI realism

Is it really easier to imagine the end of the world than alternatives to AI?

Mar 23

1:04:32

Remi Kalir on student writing

How do we continue to support, empower and value students' relationships with text?

Mar 20

55:04

Alistair Alexander on unsustainable AI

Alistair Alexander joins the podcast to talk AI, unsustainable growth, and creative acts of resistance

Mar 4

58:21

February 2025

Automatic for the people?

A prescription for AI 'mainlined into the veins' of government is a bad metaphor for a dangerous policy

Feb 22

Audrey Watters on AI state capture

The AI accelerationists get the keys to the kingdom, and we have issues

Feb 8

56:52

Audrey Watters on eugenics and robber barons

Imperfect X Breakfast (take one)

Feb 3

1:04:18

January 2025

Altman ducks, Nvidia dives

and why it may not matter in the longer term

Jan 28

Eamon Costello on human wisdom

On putting intelligence in its place

Jan 22

52:37

Catherine Cronin and Laura Czerniwicz on HE for good

Catherine and Laura discuss their award-winning book, bringing care to academic publishing, and possible AI futures

Jan 15

57:28

Dan MacQuillan on decomputing

"All that was once directly lived has become mere representation" (Guy Debord)

Jan 9

1:19:08

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