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Civilisational risk and strategy
AXRP
5 Jan 2025
Shakeel Hashim on AI Journalism
This conversation examines core safety through Shakeel Hashim on AI Journalism, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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Future of Life Institute Podcast
20 Jan 2026
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)
This conversation examines core safety through How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut), surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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Future of Life Institute Podcast
7 Nov 2025
What Happens When Insiders Sound the Alarm on AI? (with Karl Koch)
This conversation examines core safety through What Happens When Insiders Sound the Alarm on AI? (with Karl Koch), surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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Future of Life Institute Podcast
27 Nov 2025
why openai is trying to silence its critics with tyler johnston
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Lex Fridman Podcast
17 Jul 2023
Yuval Noah Harari on Intelligence, Power, and Information Risk (Lex Fridman)
A macro-level discussion on narrative control, institutions, and the political consequences of increasingly capable AI systems.
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TED Talks
Date pending
Eli Pariser — Beware online "filter bubbles"
Pariser's filter-bubble thesis explains how personalized ranking environments fragment epistemic common ground and weaken the shared factual substrate required for democratic reasoning.
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TED Talks
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Shoshana Zuboff — A Human Future in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Zuboff outlines surveillance capitalism as an extraction and prediction regime in which human behavior becomes raw material for commercial optimization and control.
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TED Talks
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Tristan Harris — How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day
Harris shows how engagement optimization functions as behavioral infrastructure: product defaults and ranking decisions at a handful of firms can shape collective attention, belief formation, and social coordination.
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The TED AI Show
3 Jun 2024
Is AI destroying our sense of reality? with Sam Gregory
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Governance, institutions, and power
TED Talks
Date pending
Carole Cadwalladr — Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy
Cadwalladr argues that opaque targeting systems can distort electoral processes while evading public scrutiny and regulatory accountability. She frames platform ad infrastructure as a constitutional issue, not just a media issue.
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TED Talks
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Zeynep Tufekci — We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
Tufekci explains how recommendation and targeting systems optimized for advertising can become de facto civic infrastructure without democratic mandate or accountability.
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