Computer Says Maybe
By Alix Dunn
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Technology is changing fast. And it's changing our world even faster. Host Alix Dunn interviews visionaries, researchers, and technologists working in the public interest to help you keep up. Step outside the hype and explore the possibilities, problems, and politics of technology. We publish weekly.
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Computer Says MozFest 2025
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Who Knows? Fact-Finding in a Failing State w/ HRDAG and Data & Society
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Who Knows? Independent Researchers in a Platform Era w/ Brandi Geurkink
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Tres Publique: Algorithms in the French Welfare State w/ Soizic Pénicaud
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Straight to Video: From Rodney King to Sora w/ Sam Gregory
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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The Toxic Relationship Between AI & Journalism w/ Nic Dawes
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Unlearning in the AI Era w/ Nabiha Syed at Mozilla Foundation
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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You Seem Lonely. Have a Robot w/ Stevie Chancellor
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Local Laws for Global Technologies w/ Hillary Ronen
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Gotcha! Enshittification w/ Cory Doctorow
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Gotcha! ScamGPT w/ Lana Swartz & Alice Marwick
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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NYC Live: Let Them Eat Compute
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Are AI Companies Cooking the Books? w/ Sarah Myers West
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Gotcha! How MLMs Ate the Economy w/ Bridget Read
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Gotcha! The Crypto Grift w/ Mark Hays
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Gotcha!
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Nodestar: Turning Networks into Knowledge w/ Andrew Trask
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Nodestar: Building Blacksky w/ Rudy Fraser
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Nodestar: The Eternal September w/ Mike Masnick
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Big Tech’s Bogus Vision for the Future w/ Paris Marx
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Short: UK Groups Sue To Block Data Center Expansion
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Consciously Uncoupling from Silicon Valley w/ Cori Crider
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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After the FAccT: Labour and Misrepresentation
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Short: Musk: Reanimating Apartheid w/ Nic Dawes
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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After the FAccT: Materiality and Militarisation
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Making Myths to Make Money w/ AI Now
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Is Computer Science Made for Dudes? w/ Felienne Hermans
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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The Elephant in the Algorithm: Live from ZEG Fest in Tbilisi
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Is Digitisation Killing Democracy? w/ Marietje Schaake
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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AI in Gaza: Live from Mexico City
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Logging Off w/ Adele Walton
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Short: Sam Altman’s World w/ Billy Perrigo
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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The Collective Intelligence Project w/ Divya Siddarth and Zarinah Agnew
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May 30, 2025 |
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Net0++: Data Center Sprawl | NEW Research from The Maybe
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May 23, 2025 |
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Net 0++: AI Thirst in a Water-Scarce World w/ Julie McCarthy
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May 16, 2025 |
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Short: Open AI for...Countries? w/ Marietje Schaake
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May 15, 2025 |
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Short: What Just Happened to 23andMe? w/ Jenny Reardon
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May 13, 2025 |
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Terra Nullius: Who Owns the Skies? w/ Julia Powles
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May 09, 2025 |
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Terra Nullius: Who Owns Outer Space? w/ Heather Allansdottir
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May 02, 2025 |
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How to (Actually) Keep Kids Safe Online w/ Kate Sim
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Worker Power & Big Tech Bossmen w/ David Seligman
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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AI Can’t Fix This: Live in London
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Technology Nationalism in India w/ Divij Joshi
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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AI Assistant or AI Boss? w/ Data & Society
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Regulating Privacy in an AI Era w/ Carly Kind
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Dogwhistles: Networked Transphobia Online
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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VCs Are World Eaters w/ Catherine Bracy
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Power Over Precision w/ Jenny Reardon
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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The Taiwan Bottleneck w/ Brian Chen
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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AI Safety’s Spiral of Urgency w/ Shazeda Ahmed
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Live Show: Paris Post-Mortem
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Defying Datafication w/ Dr Abeba Birhane (PLUS: Paris AI Action Summit)
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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DEI Season Finale: Part Two
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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DEI Season Finale: Part One
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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DEI: the final season + Alex Kotran on the Future of Education
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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To be Seen and not Watched w/ Tawana Petty
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Our learnings from 2024
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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A $20bn Search Engine w/ Michelle Meagher
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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The Age of Noise w/ Eryk Salvaggio
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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The Happy Few: Open Source AI (part two)
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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The Happy Few: Open Source AI (part one)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Algorithmically cutting benefits w/ Kevin De Liban
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Election Debrief
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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US Election Special w/ Spencer Overton
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Net 0 ++: Reporting on AI’s climate injustices w/ Karen Hao
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Net 0++: Concrete arguments for AI
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Net 0++: Big Dirty Data Centres
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Net 0++: Microsoft’s greenwashing w/ Holly Alpine
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Chasing Away Sidewalk Labs w/ Bianca Wylie
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Will Newsom Veto the AI Safety Bill? w/ Teri Olle
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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The stories we tell ourselves about AI
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Bridging The Divide w/ Issie Lapowsky
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Why was the CEO of Telegram just arrested? w/ Mallory Knodel
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Exhibit X: What did we learn?
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Exhibit X: The Community
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Exhibit X: The Courts
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Exhibit X: The Litigators
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Exhibit X: The Whistleblower
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Exhibit X: Tech and Tobacco
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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New mini-series: Exhibit X
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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What the FAccT? Evidence of bias. Now what?
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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What the FAccT? First law, bad law
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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What the FAccT?: Abandoning Algorithms
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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What the FAccT?: Reformers and Radicals
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Protesting Project Nimbus: employee organising to end Google’s contract with Israel w/ Dr.Kate Sim
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May 23, 2024 |
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The Human in the Loop: What's it like to work in the AI supply chain?
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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2024 Elections: Is AI going to wreak havoc?
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Feb 13, 2024 |