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Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 7-12.
Our second Season 3 drop of Humanity 8.0 is now live. The episodes feature the following:
• Professor David McNeill, Georgetown Law Center;
• Karina Montoya, The Open Markets Institute, and;
• Professor David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University.
❧ Season 3, Episode 7: “On Longtermism and AI—A Conversation with Professor David McNeill, Part I” https://youtu.be/iIkmqSIelZI?si=HvWCwXFxEggqJHMj.
❧ Season 3, Episode 8: “On Longtermism and AI—A Conversation with Professor David McNeill, Part II” https://youtu.be/2vdXjMIcZvI?si=Mo1yRwCUi0OFvzu8.
❧ Season 3, Episode 9: “On Antitrust in Digital Markets—A Conversation with Karina Montoya, Part I” https://youtu.be/n8puYC_k4y0?si=ghVPq_JX-4bU6v0f.
❧ Season 3, Episode 10: “On Antitrust in Digital Markets—A Conversation with Karina Montoya, Part II” https://youtu.be/sRfRDwWg7Os?si=QEVge-eDeShXp4C2.
❧ Season 3, Episode 11: “On Generative AI—A Conversation with Professor David Gunkel, Part I” https://youtu.be/jBZpn6Zw1MY?si=_PmkK4xZO2EcXCLc.
❧ Season 3, Episode 12: “On Generative AI—A Conversation with Professor David Gunkel, Part II” https://youtu.be/EdIbzQIPGL8?si=wMSyeWK4ppwFbZOr.
❧ For all Humanity 8.0 episodes to date, please go to: https://humanity8.com/.
❧ Season 3, Episode 7: “On Longtermism and AI—A Conversation with Professor David McNeill, Part I” https://youtu.be/iIkmqSIelZI?si=HvWCwXFxEggqJHMj.
❧ Season 3, Episode 8: “On Longtermism and AI—A Conversation with Professor David McNeill, Part II” https://youtu.be/2vdXjMIcZvI?si=Mo1yRwCUi0OFvzu8.
Professor David McNeill, a philosopher and scholar of the history of European philosophy, now working as an independent researcher and writer and formerly served as the Robert Aird Chair of Humanities at Deep Springs College, discusses the longtermism, effective altruism, and the conceptual and ethical shortcoming in our current debate about Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality.
Main Topics: Longtermism, Effective Altruism, Simulation Hypothesis, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality
Links:
• Academic Profile: https://independent.academia.edu/DavidMcNeill16.
• Book: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03585-7.html.
• Key Paper: The Shape of Citizenship: Extraordinary Common Meaning and Constitutional Legitimacy – https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cpt_papers/1/.
• The Georgetown Law Center Webinar (August 2023): “No, We Don’t Live In A F%#*ing Simulation”: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/events/no-we-dont-live-in-a-fing-simulation/.
❧ Season 3, Episode 9: “On Antitrust in Digital Markets—A Conversation with Karina Montoya, Part I” https://youtu.be/n8puYC_k4y0?si=ghVPq_JX-4bU6v0f.
❧ Season 3, Episode 10: “On Antitrust in Digital Markets—A Conversation with Karina Montoya, Part II” https://youtu.be/sRfRDwWg7Os?si=QEVge-eDeShXp4C2.
Karina Montoya, Senior Reporter & Policy Analyst at Open Markets Institute, a non-profit organization that focuses on issues related to competition, antitrust policy, and economic regulation, discusses the current trials against Google and touches on the broader topic of Big Tech’s digital platform monopoly and the current antitrust initiatives by the FTC.
Main Topics: Antitrust, Google, Amazon, Facebook, FTC, Big Tech
Links:
• Karina Montoya’s OMI profile and her articles: https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/staff/karina-montoya.
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/pressgirlk.
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karinamg/.
❧ Season 3, Episode 11: “On Generative AI—A Conversation with Professor David Gunkel, Part I” https://youtu.be/jBZpn6Zw1MY?si=_PmkK4xZO2EcXCLc.
❧ Season 3, Episode 12: “On Generative AI—A Conversation with Professor David Gunkel, Part II” https://youtu.be/EdIbzQIPGL8?si=wMSyeWK4ppwFbZOr.
Professor David Gunkel, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University and the founding co-editor of the “International Journal of Žižek Studies” shares his thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and his critique on how the latest emerging technologies in the field, such as GPT, ChatGPT, Bard, and DALL-E. Professor Gunkel is the author of over 80 scholarly articles and has published 12 books, including, “Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix” (MIT Press, 2016), “Robot Rights” (MIT Press 2018) and “An Introduction to Communication and Artificial Intelligence” (Polity 2019).
Main Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Robots, Automation, Academia
Links:
• Personal Website: https://gunkelweb.com/gunkel.
• Most Recent book: https://www.thinkingotherwise.org/.
• Journal: https://zizekstudies.org/.
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgunkel/.
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/David_Gunkel.
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