In an interview (in German/dubbed) for ARD’s Weltspiegel (23.03.2025), Prof. Aimee van Wynsberghe highlights how AI systems, while transformative, consume vast amounts of energy and resources like water. This raises vital questions about sustainability, ethics, and environmental impact. It’s crucial to address these issues in research and public debates.
Had a great time yesterday talking #solarpunk with @pkmutch and her brilliant class of entrepreneurs at #OCAD ... over video of course. Had a great time discussing the valences of #Utopia, trends in #ScienceFiction (#CanadianScienceFiction specifically) plus #IndigenousFuturism and #Afrofuturism
Anyone any thoughts as to why Yuval Noah Harari is getting such a kicking from reviewers for Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI?
Is it really so different from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, or even Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind?
Sure, his work leans on making sweeping generalisations and bold pronouncements, often on subjects of which he has little knowledge or expertise
But hasn’t that same ‘infotainment’ style earned him praise and awards as a global public intellectual for almost a decade now? So why the backlash?
This year's BBC Radio 4 Reith lecturer is Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
In his first lecture, 'The Future of Democracy', he asks whether we are in a "democratic recession", where longstanding democracies are at risk of breakdown and authoritarianism is resurgent. It's on BBC Sounds.
The BBC Reith Lectures, named for founder of the BBC John Reith, began in 1948 with six talks by celebrated humanist philosopher Bertrand Russell. All the lectures - plus transcripts - are on BBC Sounds.
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