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Nov 09, 2026
The Role of Humans in an Age of Intelligent Machines: Jobs, Inequality, Governance. Joanna Bryson
AI-ethics
inequality
jobs
polarization
governance
GDPR
moral-agency
accountability
legal-personhood
Bryson
HIIG
Nov 09, 2026
Do we have relationships with AI? — Joanna Bryson on "category failure", liability, grief bots and consciousness
AI-companions
anthropomorphism
moral-agency
legal-personhood
liability
trust
grief-bots
consciousness
Palantir
data-colonialism
robots-should-be-slaves
Bryson
Nov 09, 2026
The Big Picture — Sean Carroll on poetic naturalism
poetic-naturalism
emergence
core-theory
arrow-of-time
entropy
origin-of-life
consciousness
free-will
morality
mortality
philosophy-of-physics
Nov 09, 2026
Teilhard de Chardin in the 21st Century — Georgetown panel (2015)
Teilhard
evolution
God
love
ecology
technology
noosphere
Omega-point
theology-and-science
panel
Nov 09, 2026
A Collectivist, Economic View of AI — Michael I. Jordan
AI
economics
mechanism-design
contract-theory
game-theory
statistics
markets
incentives
privacy
prediction-powered-inference
collectivism
Michael-Jordan
Nov 09, 2026
Hidden Ground, Acoustic Space, Lost Identity — Marshall McLuhan (1977)
McLuhan
media-ecology
acoustic-space
visual-space
figure-ground
hemispheres
television
identity
violence
tetrad
global-village
Nov 09, 2026
The Nature of Creativity — Lewis Mumford (probable)
creativity
Lewis-Mumford
technics
anxiety
security
cosmology
vitalism
love
detachment
automation
Cold-War
archival-talk
AI-and-creativity
Nov 09, 2026
Self-Consciousness and the Master-Slave Dialectic — Gregory B. Sadler on Hegel
Hegel
Phenomenology-of-Spirit
self-consciousness
desire
recognition
master-slave
lordship-bondage
Kojeve
Marx
Sartre
Fanon
labour
Bildung
Nov 09, 2026
Hegel's *Phenomenology of Spirit*, Introduction: Sadler's classroom walk-through
Hegel
phenomenology
dialectic
experience
consciousness
skepticism
idealism
Kant
teaching
Nov 09, 2026
Can we live with AI? — Shannon Vallor (Turing Lecture, Dec 2024)
AI-mirror
space-of-reasons
time
narrative
open-future
deskilling
energy
political-economy
virtue-ethics
philosophy-of-technology
Nov 09, 2026
Consilience: the unity of knowledge, E. O. Wilson at Harvard, 2010
consilience
unity-of-knowledge
E-O-Wilson
sociobiology
gene-culture-coevolution
epigenetic-rules
biophilia
two-cultures
reductionism
humanities
Prather-lecture
Nov 09, 2026
The Real Creation Story — E. O. Wilson, *The Social Conquest of Earth* (Long Now × Exploratorium, 20 Apr 2012)
E-O-Wilson
eusociality
multilevel-selection
kin-selection
group-selection
human-nature
creation-stories
religion
sociobiology
biodiversity
superorganism
Social-Conquest-of-Earth
Nov 09, 2026
Two Harvard rivals, fifty years on — E. O. Wilson and James Watson, with Robert Krulwich (Harvard, 9 Sept 2009)
E-O-Wilson
James-Watson
Krulwich
Harvard
molecular-biology
natural-history
sociobiology
kin-selection
conservation
biodiversity
rivalry
science-culture
great-problems
human-nature
2009
Oct 30, 2026
The future of AI: law, regulation, creativity, health — Ryan Abbott with Dinis Guarda
AI-regulation
disinformation
platforms
copyright
creative-industries
healthcare-AI
algorithmic-bias
legal-tech
alternative-medicine
startups-IP
longevity
Abbott
Oct 30, 2026
Why Patent Law Should Recognize AI Inventors: Ryan Abbott on the DABUS cases
patents
inventorship
DABUS
Artificial-Inventor-Project
obviousness
skilled-person
AI-and-law
Thaler
conception
Oct 30, 2026
The Reasonable Robot — Ryan Abbott on AI and the Law
AI-law
legal-neutrality
tort
reasonable-person
criminal-law
tax
personhood
patents
copyright
Abbott
Oct 30, 2026
"Computers can't care": needs, goals and human wellbeing — Margaret Boden
Boden
AI
care
needs
Maslow
wellbeing
collaboration
unemployment
care-robots
personhood
free-energy-principle
philosophy-of-AI
Oct 30, 2026
Not Gizmos, but Ghosts — Margaret Boden
AI
mind
consciousness
Ryle
functionalism
virtual-machine
wonder
science-and-religion
Darwin
Paley
Boden
cognitive-science
Oct 30, 2026
AI: Its Future and Ours — Boden, Tallinn, Weller, Wyatt (2016)
AI
AI-safety
off-switch
value-alignment
companion-robots
understanding
consciousness
common-good
COMPAS
UBI
autonomous-weapons
religion-and-AI
Oct 30, 2026
"You're with the billionaires or you're with the people" — Gil Durán (DW News)
tech-oligarchy
Thiel
Yarvin
network-state
fascism
oligarchy
AI-bubble
midterms-2026
Californian-ideology
neoreaction
Oct 30, 2026
Can Human Creators Coexist With AI? — Daniel Gervais
copyright
AI-training
fair-use
text-and-data-mining
remuneration
levy
journalism
public-AI
authorship
coexistence
WIPO
Oct 30, 2026
Can You Use AI to Make Good Art? — Fred Graver
AI-art
writers-room
creativity
authorship
audience
tacit-knowledge
codifying-expertise
homogenisation
copyright
show-business
Every
Oct 30, 2026
AI's Impact on IP Laws: Mammen at PARC (2021)
AI
patents
copyright
inventorship
authorship
DABUS
Thaler
legal-personhood
IP-law
India
time-capsule
Oct 30, 2026
Will AI Companies Respect Creators' Rights? — Ed Newton-Rex
copyright
fair-use
AI-training-data
licensing
Fairly-Trained
transparency
open-weights
synthetic-data
labour-displacement
creative-industries
music
UK-policy
Oct 30, 2026
Creativity and AI: How Can We Build a Fairer Future? — Newton-Rex and Debbonaire
AI
copyright
creators
licensing
transparency
UK-policy
consent
opt-out
fairly-trained
Data-Act
sovereign-AI-fund
Oct 30, 2026
How AI is changing medical practice — Frank Pasquale, Justin Skowno, Kimberlee Weatherall
medical-AI
law
liability
licensure
automation-vs-augmentation
clinical-decision-support
bias
data-standards
regulation
big-tech
Pasquale
Oct 30, 2026
The Future of AI in Law — Frank Pasquale
AI-and-law
algorithmic-governance
criminal-justice
risk-assessment
explainability
robots
affective-computing
Pasquale
Catholic-thought
Oct 30, 2026
Machines Judging Humans — Frank Pasquale
algorithmic-accountability
rule-of-law
legal-process
Goodhart
Campbell
credit-scoring
fintech
hospital-ratings
legal-realism
algorithmic-realism
Pasquale
Oct 30, 2026
New Laws of Robotics — Frank Pasquale in conversation
Pasquale
robotics-law
AI-governance
professions
expertise
automation
future-of-work
affective-computing
autonomous-weapons
attribution
intelligence-augmentation
Oct 30, 2026
A Global Perspective on Copyright Law and Copy-Reliant AI — Matthew Sag
copyright
generative-AI
fair-use
text-and-data-mining
non-expressive-use
memorization
Australia
Japan
EU
Singapore
regulatory-arbitrage
licensing
Oct 30, 2026
AI and the Future of Copyright Politics, Pamela Samuelson
copyright
fair-use
generative-AI
training-data
collective-licensing
Bartz
Kadrey
Thomson-Reuters-v-Ross
Cox-v-Sony
Copyright-Office
copyright-politics
Oct 30, 2026
Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs — Pamela Samuelson (IPSC 2015)
copyright
software
functionality
idea-expression
section-102b
merger
Oracle-v-Google
API
interoperability
patents
Alice
Samuelson
Oct 30, 2026
Generative AI Meets Copyright — Pamela Samuelson
copyright
generative-AI
fair-use
training-data
derivative-works
authorship
Copyright-Office
Thaler
Stable-Diffusion
Copilot
Getty
law-and-technology
Oct 30, 2026
Tokenization: Understanding AI's Data Transformation — Pamela Samuelson
copyright
tokenization
embeddings
memorization
fair-use
generative-AI
training-data
Samuelson
Oct 30, 2026
Can a program understand? — Searle and Boden, "Voices" (1984)
Chinese-room
strong-AI
weak-AI
intentionality
syntax-semantics
functionalism
creativity
Boden
Searle
philosophy-of-mind
symbol-grounding
Oct 30, 2026
Third Party Moral Hazard — Peter Siegelman
insurance-law
moral-hazard
externalities
third-party-moral-hazard
kidnap-insurance
cyber-ransom
health-insurance
fraud
governance
liability
Oct 26, 2026
The Hidden Footprint of AI — Miriam Aczel on carbon, water and land
AI
environment
water
energy
carbon
land
footprint
data-centres
environmental-justice
transparency
life-cycle-assessment
rebound-effect
UNU-INWEH
Oct 26, 2026
Attention, Gesture, Machine, Intensity — Yves Citton
attention
gesture
machines
AI
curiosity
Flusser
Huyghe
Simondon
Stiegler
attensity
philosophy-of-technology
Oct 26, 2026
One giant model, or many small ones? — Timnit Gebru on "frugal AI"
Gebru
DAIR
frugal-AI
small-models
scaling
Whisper
speech-recognition
Te-Hiku-Media
Lesan
Ghana-NLP
data-sovereignty
low-resource-languages
compute
labour
environment
Oct 26, 2026
"The machine god": is AI doom a marketing story? — Timnit Gebru on The Tea
AI-doomerism
AI-safety
effective-altruism
TESCREAL
stochastic-parrots
anthropomorphism
regulatory-capture
data-labour
DAIR
critical-AI
Oct 26, 2026
Voluntary AI Safety Standards and "Regulatory Capture" — Timnit Gebru on Democracy Now!
AI-regulation
self-regulation
regulatory-capture
existential-risk
Gebru
DAIR
stochastic-parrots
liability
TESCREAL
AI-safety-politics
Oct 26, 2026
Global Water Bankruptcy — Kaveh Madani
water
water-bankruptcy
irreversibility
natural-capital
rebound-effect
Jevons
political-economy
water-diplomacy
data-centres
UNU-INWEH
Stockholm-Water-Prize
Oct 26, 2026
Platforms and Cultural Production — David Nieborg and Brooke Erin Duffy
platformization
cultural-production
platform-power
creator-economy
labor
governance
algorithms
multi-sided-markets
boundary-resources
Poell
Nieborg
Duffy
political-economy-of-media
Oct 26, 2026
Shaping Technological Revolutions in Turbulent Times — Carlota Perez
technological-revolutions
great-surges
installation-deployment
golden-age
dynamic-demand
welfare-state
China
AI
neo-Schumpeterian
Perez
Oct 26, 2026
Platforms, AI and Culture Production — Thomas Poell
platforms
platformization
cultural-industries
generative-AI
precarity
creativity
governance
decolonial
anime
copyright
platform-studies
Oct 26, 2026
AI, Empire and the Living World — Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein, with Karen Hao
AI
capitalism
empire
fascism
surplus-humanity
language
writing
shock-doctrine
movement-building
India
Gaza
bubble
Arendt
Polanyi
Oct 26, 2026
Gilded Rage: Tech Billionaires, AI and Power — Jacob Silverman on Democracy Now!
AI-policy
political-economy
gilded-age
Silicon-Valley
Trump
Musk
Sacks
Thiel
AI-risk
whistleblowers
antitrust
superintelligence