Overthink
It is a podcast through which two very sensible folks (who occur to be younger and hilarious professors of philosophy) draw sudden philosophical connections between sides of contemporary life. Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzmán have finished hour-long episodes on every little thing from mommy points to animal justice, with notably sharp segments on tech-adjacent points like biohacking and the connection between AI and artwork. Each time I feel society is coping with a brand-new drawback, these two unearth somebody who was pondering it centuries in the past. It’s a deal with to take heed to.
A movie from the tech billionaire bunker
Over the summer time I used to be keen to observe Mountainhead, a darkly humorous movie by Jesse Armstrong, the creator of Succession, that follows 4 unlikable tech founders as they watch the world collapse beneath political turmoil and violence attributable to AI deepfakes. I used to be ready for it to look like a documentary, however to a reporter who’s in frequent dialogue with AI’s movers and shakers, it felt a bit too actual. From their distant mountain mansion, they discuss AI accelerationism, utilitarian ethics, importing one’s consciousness to the cloud, liberating humanity to different planets—all widespread dialog subjects among the many tech elite that has had a lot affect within the present administration.
Music by human beings
For a lot of final winter I used to be reporting a narrative about simply how far AI-generated music has come. As a lifelong musician (I play guitar, bass, and drums, none notably properly), I discovered the songs I heard—constructed with fashions whose creators have been sued for coaching on the discographies of artists with out compensation—so convincingly human that they made me deeply uncomfortable. Since then, I’ve had a revitalized zeal for dwell exhibits the place actual folks in punk bands or jazz trios do issues that AI is just not able to (Sophie Truax is my newest favourite).
