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The internet is broken—but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re concerned about how surveillance, online advertising, and automated content moderation are hurting us online and offline, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward. EFF has been defending your rights online for over thirty years and is behind many of the biggest digital rights protections since the invention of the internet. Through curious conversations with some of the leading ...
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Consequential is a narrative podcast about public policy, its impacts, and its potential for building a better future. The show is produced by Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. https://hnz.cm/consequential
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Access Partnership is the world’s preeminent tech advisory firm. We’ve been helping leading tech companies navigate complex regulatory challenges and expand their products and services to new markets since 1999. In this time, we’ve also worked closely with governments to offer advice on creating policies and regulations as the landscape continues to change with new and emerging technologies. Through two decades of experience, Access Partnership has developed effective and proprietary process ...
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🎙️ In The Clouds: The First d/acc Podcast Exploring the intersection of technology, human agency, and our collective future through the lens of defensive accelerationism (d/acc). Join Hunter and Sam as we dive deep into emerging technologies, digital sovereignty, and how we can preserve human agency while embracing technological progress. 🔍 We cover: - AI and superintelligence - Digital sovereignty - Brain-computer interfaces - Cryptography and privacy - Decentralized systems - Cybernetics a ...
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We all leave digital trails as we navigate the internet – records of what we searched for, what we bought, who we talked to, where we went or want to go in the real world – and those trails usually are owned by the big corporations behind the platforms we use. But what if we valued our digital autonomy the way that we do our bodily autonomy? What i…
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Coming Soon: How to Fix the Internet Season Six
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Now more than ever, we need to build, reinforce, and protect the tools and technology that support our freedom. EFF’s How to Fix the Internet returns with another season full of forward-looking and hopeful conversations with the smartest and most creative leaders, activists, technologists, policy makers, and thinkers around. People who are working …
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Vote for “How to Fix the Internet” in the Webby Awards People's Voice Competition!
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EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a nominee in the Webby Awards 29th Annual People's Voice competition – and we need your support to bring the trophy home! Voting ends on April 17, so if you like what we do here by trying to envision a better digital future—please take a moment to go to eff.org/webby to cast your vote.…
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Securing the Internet: A Conversation with Chris Locke, Internet Society Foundation
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Join Lim May-Ann, Director of Multilateral Relations, Data Policy, and Partnerships at Access Partnership and special guest Chris Locke, EVP at Internet Society and Managing Director of the Internet Society Foundation, for an insightful discussion on what it takes to build a secure and open internet. Chris shares his perspective on the critical cha…
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Mini Episode- A Brief Overview of Defensive Accelerationism
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🎙️ In this mini episode, Hunter breaks down the core principles of d/acc (defensive, decentralized, differentially democratic accelerationism) and why it matters for our technological future. Learn about Vitalik Buterin's three pillars of d/acc—defensive, decentralized, and differentially democratic accelerationism—and how they aim to maintain huma…
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This episode was first released on May 2, 2023. Dr. Seuss wrote a story about a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher whose job it is to watch his town’s one lazy bee, because “a bee that is watched will work harder, you see.” But that doesn’t seem to work, so another Hawtch-Hawtcher is assigned to watch the first, and then another to watch the second... unt…
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Episode 3: Accelerating Latin America with Cush from Odisea Labs
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🌴🚀 How is crypto ACTUALLY being used in Latin America? 💰 In this episode, we sit down with Cush from Odisea to explore how frontier tech is transforming communities across Latin America! 🌎 From Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador to billion-dollar crypto remittances in Mexico, discover why latam/acc might be the most exciting tech movement you haven't …
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Sustainable Data Centres and Impactful Energy Policy
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Podcast guest: Professor LEE Poh Seng, Executive Director, Energy Studies Institute, NUS. In this episode, Dr. Lee Poh Seng, head of Singapore’s Energy Studies Institute, speaks about data centres and effective energy policy. Taking Singapore as a case-study, he underscores the importance of green energy imports, innovative green energy solutions l…
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Episode 2: d/acc & TinyCloud: Who Controls Your Data When AI Remembers Everything?
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What happens when AI can remember every conversation you've ever had? 🎙️ Hunter and Sam dive into this future that's closer than you think, introducing d/acc (Decentralized and Democratic Differentially Defensive Acceleration) and TinyCloud. Learn why the battle for data control isn't just about privacy – it's about keeping your freedom of choice i…
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d/acc One Year Later: A Deep Dive into Vitalik's Vision
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Join us for our inaugural episode as we explore Vitalik Buterin's groundbreaking paper on defensive accelerationism (d/acc) and its implications for humanity's future. Hunter and Sam break down the three pillars of d/acc - democratic, decentralized, and differentially defensive acceleration - and discuss how these principles can help us navigate th…
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In this episode of the Access Partnership podcast, Meghan Chilappa, Policy Counsel, and Matthew Sharp, Senior Manager at Access Partnership, reflect on key insights from a recent roundtable discussion on International AI Governance: Best Practices and Future Challenges, held in Brussels. This invitation-only event brought together policymakers, ind…
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Rerelease - So You Think You're a Critical Thinker
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This episode was first released on March 21, 2023. The promise of the internet was that it would be a tool to melt barriers and aid truth-seekers everywhere. But it feels like polarization has worsened in recent years, and more internet users are being misled into embracing conspiracies and cults. From QAnon to anti-vax screeds to talk of an Illumi…
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Accelerating AI Skills for the Future of Work with AWS
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Emmanuel Pillai, Head of ASEAN – Education & Training at Amazon Web Services, discusses how Artificial Intelligence is reshaping industries across the Asia Pacific. AI is creating new opportunities and challenges, pushing organizations and workers to adapt to an increasingly dynamic workforce. A study commissioned by AWS and conducted by Access Par…
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The early internet had a lot of “technological self-determination" — you could opt out of things, protect your privacy, control your experience. The problem was that it took a fair amount of technical skill to exercise that self-determination. But what if it didn’t? What if the benefits of online privacy, security, interoperability, and free speech…
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Artificial intelligence will neither solve all our problems nor likely destroy the world, but it could help make our lives better if it’s both transparent enough for everyone to understand and available for everyone to use in ways that augment us and advance our goals — not for corporations or government to extract something from us and exert power…
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Collaging, remixing, sampling—art always has been more than the sum of its parts, a synthesis of elements and ideas that produces something new and thought-provoking. Technology has enabled and advanced this enormously, letting us access and manipulate information and images in ways that would’ve been unimaginable just a few decades ago. For Nettri…
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From Napster to YouTube, some of the most important and controversial uses of the internet have been about building community: connecting people all over the world who share similar interests, tastes, views, and concerns. Big corporations try to co-opt and control these communities, and politicians often promote scary narratives about technology’s …
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Blind and low-vision people have experienced remarkable gains in information literacy because of digital technologies, like being able to access an online library offering more than 1.2 million books that can be translated into text-to-speech or digital Braille. But it can be a lot harder to come by an accessible map of a neighborhood they want to …
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If you buy something—a refrigerator, a car, a tractor, a wheelchair, or a phone—but you can't have the information or parts to fix or modify it, is it really yours? The right to repair movement is based on the belief that you should have the right to use and fix your stuff as you see fit, a philosophy that resonates especially in economically tryin…
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Imagine an internet in which economic power is more broadly distributed, so that more people can build and maintain small businesses online to make good livings. In this world, the behavioral advertising that has made the internet into a giant surveillance tool would be banned, so people could share more equally in the riches without surrendering t…
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Is your face truly your own, or is it a commodity to be sold, a weapon to be used against you? A company called Clearview AI has scraped the internet to gather (without consent) 30 billion images to support a tool that lets users identify people by picture alone. Though it’s primarily used by law enforcement, should we have to worry that the eavesd…
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AI's Impact on Data Management Amid Regulatory Shifts
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Join Natalie Taylor in this episode of AI Global Watch as she sits down with James Herbert, CEO of Pivotl. Together, they explore the challenges and opportunities of data transformation, discussing the influence of modern platforms and #AI. Gain valuable insights into the ramifications of #GDPR and its wake-up call for businesses, as well as the #C…
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Imagine a world in which the internet is first and foremost about empowering people, not big corporations and government. In that world, government does “after-action” analyses to make sure its tech regulations are working as intended, recruits experienced technologists as advisors, and enforces real accountability for intelligence and law enforcem…
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