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TiB 158: Silicon geopolitics; better science; the past, present and future of legitimacy; and more... #158 Mar 30, 2021
#156 Mar 16, 2021 TiB 156: The future of pandemics; the future of art; the future of growth; and more... – This week: Why we may be on the brink of technology to eradicate pandemics; how a generation of crypt
#155 Mar 9, 2021 TiB 155: National AI strategies; scale and ethics; compressing the economic sphere; and more... – This week: A look at the 2021 "AI Index" report; thinking about scale and ethics in tech with Sarah D
#154 Mar 2, 2021 TiB 154: Soft power and technological sovereignty in the 21st century – This week: a special TiB edition on the technology choices facing "medium sized" democracies over the
#153 Feb 23, 2021 TiB 153: The big risk of UK ARPA; where innovation comes from; the printing press vs the internet; and more... – This week: What ARIA (the UK's take on ARPA) needs to do to succeed; new TiB podcast on the history o
#152 Feb 16, 2021 TiB 152: AI, compute and national security; should Bezos run the vaccine programme; information revolutions and evolution; and more... – This week: Computational power as a key plank of national strategy; how information revolutions rewir
#151 Feb 9, 2021 TiB 151: Lessons from the Vaccine Wars; making AI safe; variance and politics; and more... – This week: What can we learn from the UK's (surprising?) vaccine success; how we can make AI safe; fo
#150 Feb 2, 2021 TiB 150: How did the world get so weird? – This week: A special edition in honour of GameStop: how the world got so weird and why it's not going
#149 Jan 26, 2021 TiB 149: Who will own the AI future; building a more innovative society; what top ML talent wants; and more... – This week: new TiB podcast episode on what the history of technology says about the future of AI; how
#148 Jan 19, 2021 TiB 148: A new era for the internet; against experts; public intellectuals in the internet age; and more... – This week: What the crisis of democracy tells us about the future of the internet; the case for and a
#147 Jan 12, 2021 TiB 147: Avoiding an AI race to the bottom; the never-ending Brexit; Fund People, Not Projects; and more... – This week: The first TiB podcast episode with Ian Hogarth on the geopolitics of AI; evaluating models
#146 Jan 5, 2021 TiB 146: Brain drain and top talent; the end of the US corporate elite; the TiB podcast; and more... – This week: What happened to India's top talent; how the American corporate "inner circle" disappeared
#145 Dec 15, 2020 TiB 145: 2020 in review - the best of Thoughts in Between – This week: The Thoughts in Between review of 2020...
#144 Dec 8, 2020 TiB 144: Infecting people on purpose; Google's golden handcuffs; China's soft power agenda; and more... – This week: why smart people disagree on human challenge trials for COVID; identity, status and quitti
#143 Dec 1, 2020 TiB 143: The end of tech stagnation; green growth; why (one) climate change consensus is wrong; and more... – This week: Signs of the end of the Great Stagnation; why one piece of climate change conventional wis
#142 Nov 24, 2020 TiB 142: "Elitist" AI; how Silicon Valley sees China; the unhappiness divide in politics; and more... – This week: The (non?)-impact of the growing cost of machine learning; the troubling drop in happiness
#141 Nov 17, 2020 TiB 141: Whose jobs are at risk from robots; Friedrich Engels, venture capitalist; coronavirus fantasies; and more... – This week: Who loses their job when robots are installed; the appeal of fantasy, even when it kills y
#140 Nov 10, 2020 TiB 140: How to buy an election; accelerating scientific progress; "Shy Trump voters"; and more... – This week: Why "Shy Trump Voters" don't explain polling failures; how to buy an election (or even an