When did you first hear of GPT, Claude, DALL-E or Bard? Feels like a while ago, right? In barely over a year AI has penetrated our conversations, our places of work and dominates the culture. It also threatens to make some of those pillars of society redundant in years to come. Join researcher and author Carl Miller for Power Trip to see where that journey is headed – and whether anyone can stop the ride.

Could AI influence the way you vote? As the dangers of AI targeted political material become apparent, Dispatches illustrates the effect AI could have on 12 British households of undecided voters.

The voyage of the space shuttle Challenger on the morning of January 28th, 1986, lasted just minutes before it broke up mid-flight. The tragic outcome for its lost crew has cast a shadow over space travel for decades since. But how did that disaster unfold? And what is its legacy for space exploration today?

Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times and its former Beijing bureau chief. The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, his work has often focused on global affairs and U.S. foreign policy but his new book, At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China, is a much more personal dive into the societal and cultural dynamics driving a superpower.

As a writer who focuses on technology and as AI Editor for The Financial Times, Madhumita Murgia has been unable to ignore the increasing reach of AI into the infrastructure that helps run our societies. It's the subject of her new book, Code Dependent, a study of how technology and AI often designed with idealistic intent is beginning to have a significant effect on real people's lives and not always for the better.

n conversation with author and researcher Carl Miller, Kleeman makes the case that we can’t afford to dodge the question of how much we are willing to spend to prevent the loss of life while making hollow statements about life’s supposed pricelessness.

2024 will be the biggest election year in world history. Forty countries will hold national elections, with over two billion voters heading to the polls. In this episode, two experts give us a situation report on how AI will increase the risks to our elections and our democracies.

Julia Ebner is a researcher specialising in far-right extremism, reciprocal radicalisation, conspiracy myths and terrorism prevention. Her new book is Going Mainstream: How Extremists Are Taking Over. She joins our host Carl Miller, Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos, to talk about it.

In this thought-provoking episode of the Artificial Intelligence & Equality podcast, Carl Miller tackles the pressing question: Can we code power responsibly? And moreover, how do we define "power" in this context?

MIT economist Daron Acemoglu has an alternative vision and on July 5 he joined Intelligence Squared to set out his big idea: wrest control of AI from the hands of a few arrogant tech leaders and empower society instead. Is technology too important to leave to the billionaires? Can AI really be democratised? Tune into his conversation with Carl Miller to hear the arguments and decide for yourself.

Earlier this year videos made using artificial intelligence caused a stir in Venezuela. Many Venezuelans would have thought they were real news reports but a Spanish newspaper exposed them as deepfakes and linked them to a pro-government agenda. Carl Miller delves into the murky world of the Venezuelan state’s propaganda tactics online.

In a world increasingly built around convenience, why do we often feel so short of free time?

2024 will be the biggest election year in world history. Forty countries will hold national elections, with over two billion voters heading to the polls. In this episode, two experts give us a situation report on how AI will increase the risks to our elections and our democracies.

It’s often said that you can’t put a price on a life but in the name of business many organisations do it everyday. In conversation with author and researcher Carl Miller, Kleeman makes the case that we can’t afford to dodge the question of how much we are willing to spend to prevent the loss of life while making hollow statements about life’s supposed pricelessness.

Today, I welcome back Carl Miller, a leading expert in the ethics of artificial intelligence and the Research Director at Demos, a UK-based think tank. After his insightful discussion on information warfare, cyber-attacks, and weaponisation of social media in Episode 51, Carl returns to delve deeper into the ethical, social, and political ramifications of AI.

In this thought-provoking episode of the Artificial Intelligence & Equality podcast, Carl Miller tackles the pressing question: Can we code power responsibly? And moreover, how do we define "power" in this context?

In 2010, a coordinated attack was carried out on Iran’s largest Nuclear Enrichment Facility. Causing widespread damage, the attack destroyed over 900 centrifuges and severely impacted the local power grid. It was the world’s first publicly documented cyber-attack on a nation's infrastructure - and it sent a very clear message. A completely new method of waging war had emerged, and militaries across the globe were taking note.

Navigating the complex legal and ethical dilemmas that will fundamentally impact our freedom

Is technology eroding democracy or can it reconnect citizens to their governments?

Could AI influence the way you vote? As the dangers of AI targeted political material become apparent, Dispatches illustrates the effect AI could have on 12 British households of undecided voters.

Earlier this year videos made using artificial intelligence caused a stir in Venezuela. Many Venezuelans would have thought they were real news reports but a Spanish newspaper exposed them as deepfakes and linked them to a pro-government agenda. Carl Miller delves into the murky world of the Venezuelan state’s propaganda tactics online.

By launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has started the first war in Europe for a generation, defying the post-Cold War international rules-based order and inflicting great suffering on millions of civilians in the process.

Traditional conflict – fought with guns, bombs, and drones – has become almost too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. So nations have innovated.

Mark Zuckerberg may have gone all-in on the concept of the metaverse recently but he's actually a bit late to the conversation. Herman Narula is CEO and co-founder of Improbable, who since 2012 have created the frameworks for building virtual worlds for clients ranging from video-game studios to governments.

Click investigates the suspension of seven pro-China editors from Wikipedia, which turns 20 this year, and if the platform can remain free of state propaganda.

In an age of disinformation, with attention focused on online harms, is the illegal online wildlife trade getting the attention it deserves?

Extremists are using mainstream video games and gaming chat platforms to spread hate, BBC Click has found.

Gaming is a place where many of us play, but the gaming space is also where extremists hang out, socialise and influence other gamers. Click investigates.

In this week's podcast we're joined by Max Brooks, global bestselling novelist of cult classic 'World War Z' and Hollywood screenwriter. He speaks to Carl Miller about his most recent book 'Devolution' which is a hyper-realistic disaster/monster/survival story that explores what happens to humanity when it is forced into social isolation.

In this week's episode Marietje Schaake International Director of Policy at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Centre speaks to Carl Miller about Facebook's recent legal battle with Australia, Trump's deplatforming from Twitter and how we can preserve democracy and civil liberties in the age of Big Tech.

In this week's podcast Nina Schick speaks to Carl Miller about the rise of Deepfakes and what she believes is an impending 'Infocalypse'.

Series OneIn this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interviewed Carl Miller, who specialises in how technology is changing society and politics. He co-founded the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world, at Demos (Britain's leading cross-party think tank) nearly a decade ago, and has been their Research Director ever since.

Click investigates the possible state manipulation of Wikipedia

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As a behavioural scientist who has worked with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Justin Hempson-Jones is more familiar with influence's uses – and its dangers – than most. In his recent book, Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it, he offers new perspectives on how individuals can use influence to achieve their goals in everyday life and also gives advice on how to detect when we're being influenced by more malign or unseen actors across society.