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The Tech Policy Press PodcastDOGE and the United States of AIAcross the United States and in some cities abroad yesterday, protestors took to the streets to resist the policies of US President Donald Trump. Dubbed the "Hands Off" protests, over 1,400 events took place, including in New York City, where protestors called for billionaire Elon Musk to be ousted from his role in government and for an end to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has gutted government agencies and programs and sought to install artificial intelligence systems to purportedly identify wasteful spending and reduce the federal workforce.In this conversation, Justin Hendrix is joined by four...2025-04-0653 min

Tech Uncensored - An Altitude Accelerator PodcastEpisode 75 Meta Ends Third-Party Fact-Checking: Implications for Users and SocietyMeta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has decided to end its third-party fact-checking program. This move was announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a video titled “More speech and fewer mistakes.” According to Zuckerberg, the decision to remove fact-checking is driven by the belief that fact-checking organizations have been politically biased and have undermined trust.Instead of relying on third-party fact-checkers, Meta will implement a new system called “Community Notes.” This system, similar to the one used by X (formerly Twitter), will allow users to add context and corrections to posts that may contain misleading informat...2025-03-2849 min

The Tech Policy Press PodcastShould AGI Really Be the Goal of Artificial Intelligence Research?The goal of achieving "artificial general intelligence," or AGI, is shared by many in the AI field. OpenAI’s charter defines AGI as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work,” and last summer, the company announced its plan to achieve AGI within five years. While other experts at companies like Meta and Anthropic quibble with the term, many AI researchers recognize AGI as either an explicit or implicit goal. Google Deepmind went so far as to set out "Levels of AGI,” identifying key principles and definitions of the term. Today’s guests are among the a...2025-03-0942 min

AI Music LabEpisode 32: Not Like AIOn today's episode we talk about Super Bowl LIX commercials about - and using - AI. Then we dive deep into Eryk Salvaggio's work though his appearance on the Phantom Power podcast. Finally, we watch a part of one of Salvaggio's classes on AI images where he discusses critical theory and AI. Let's get into it 2025-03-011h 20

PodQueueLooking at the Machine - Eryk Salvaggio, Katrina Sluis & Joel SternLet’s begin with that inescapable cultural question of new computational practices and #artificialintelligence #ai . What are the actual affordances, complexities, and realities of artificial intelligence for the #arts and cultural sectors? How do we ensure that creators are able to experiment and are not exploited? What does this mean for arts and cultural workers, who need to possess the technological and aesthetic understandings that ensure wise, forward thinking and make ethical choices? Speakers: Eryk Salvaggio (Cybernetic Forests, USA), Associate Professor Katrina Sluis(ANU), moderated by Dr Joel Stern (RMIT University) _____________________ ACMI is Australia's national museum of screen culture. Watch, pl...2025-02-221h 34

F.A.Z. WissenKann KI ausufernde Bürokratie bändigen?FAZ Wissen In dieser Folge geht es um Künstliche Intelligenz in der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Joachim Müller-Jung ist skeptisch, ob die Vorraussetzungen in Deutschland dafür gegeben sind. Piotr Heller erzählt, was über die Nutzung von KI durch DOGE und Elon Musk in der US-Bürokratie bekannt ist - und wie sich der Einsatz der Technologie hierzulande davon unterscheiden sollte. Uns gibt’s auch zum Lesen - unser Angebot zur Bundestagswahl: 5 Monate FAZ+ für 5 € pro Monat Mehr über die Angebote unserer Werbepartner finden Sie HIER. Die Links zu dieser Podcastfolge: Eryk Salv...2025-02-2134 min

Phantom PowerAre AI art and music really just noise? (Eryk Salvaggio) In this episode, host Mack Hagood dives into the world of AI-generated music and art with digital artist and theorist Eryk Salvaggio. The conversation explores technical and philosophical aspects of AI art, its impact on culture, and the ‘age of noise’ it has ushered in. AI dissolves sounds and images into literal noise, subsequently reversing the process to create new “hypothetical” sounds and images. The kinds of cultural specificities that archivists struggle to preserve are stripped away when we treat human culture as data in this way. Eryk also shares insights into his works like ‘Swim’ and ‘Sounds Like Mus...2025-01-291h 08

Pondering AIAI Myths and Mythos with Eryk SalvaggioEryk Salvaggio articulates myths animating AI design, illustrates the nature of creativity and generated media, and artfully reframes the discourse on GenAI and art. Eryk joined Kimberly to discuss myths and metaphors in GenAI design; the illusion of control; if AI saves time and what for; not relying on futuristic AI to solve problems; the fallacy of scale; the dehumanizing narrative of human equivalence; positive biases toward AI; why asking ‘is the machine creative’ misses the mark; creative expression and meaning making; what AI generated art represents; distinguishing archives from datasets; curation as an act of care; repres...2025-01-0858 min

Computer Says MaybeOur learnings from 2024We’re wrapped for the year, and will be back on the 10th of Jan. In the meantime, listen to Alix, Prathm, and Georgia discuss their biggest learnings from the pod this year from some of their favourite episodes.**We want to hear from YOU about the podcast — what do you want to hear more of in 2025? Share your ideas with us here: https://tally.so/r/3E860B**Or if you’d rather ramble into a microphone (just like we do…) use this link instead!We pull out clip...2024-12-2048 min

Philanthropisms2025 Philanthropy & Civil Society Trends and PredictionsSend us a textIn this episode we look ahead to 2025, and offer our annual set of predictions-that-aren't-really-predictions-but-more-like-thoughts-about-interesting-trends. This year we consider:UK Grantmaking on pauseImplementing policies to boost givingDebate over tax relief for charitable givingUS foundations under populist attack Next Gen philanthropy and new modelsContinued growth of DAFsClosing space for civil society in the US and beyondMore UK charities to closeRebalancing head and heart in philanthropyPopulation debates, pronatalism and philanthropyThe platformisation of givingOpenAI and the blurred lines between profit and purposeThe final death of XSocial media influencers and the impatience economyDe-teching and the importance of r...2024-12-121h 37

Computer Says MaybeThe Age of Noise w/ Eryk SalvaggioWhat happens if you ask a generative AI image model to show you what Picasso’s work would have looked like if he lived in Japan in the 16th century? Would it produce something totally new, or just mash together stereotypical aesthetics from Picasso’s work, and 16th century Japan?This week, Alix interviewed Eryk Salvaggio, who shares his ideas around how we are moving away from ‘the age of information’ and into an age of noise, where we’ve progressed so far into a paradigm of easy and frictionless information sharing, that information has transformed into an overwhe...2024-12-0647 min

Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiEryk Salvaggio & Caroline Sinders: Glitching AI, Algorithmic Resistance, Labor Activism, Art as Research, & Feminist Technology | Urgent Futures #13My guests today are Eryk Salvaggio & Caroline Sinders.What role do artists actually play in society? What about in the development of AI? It’s easy to speak in vague, grandiose terms about the power of art, but when do the actual actions, techniques, and interventions of artists amount to real-world impact? I’m not saying that art needs to lead to impact, but it’s important that we’re clear about the moments it does so that we can learn from the ways it did and to what extent it was successful. More broadly, it helps us see t...2024-06-262h 13

The IMRO PodcastMusic Current Festival 2024In this episode of the IMRO Podcast, we report back from the Music Current Festival 2024.Music Current is an annual contemporary music festival produced by Dublin Sound Lab, and taking place in the Project Arts Centre and Contemporary Music Centre in Temple Bar. The festival showcases contemporary Irish and new international electronic music as well facilitating workshops, professional development classes and public panel discussions.This years festival took place in April and Danny Carroll spoke to some of the people involved as well as doing a bit of interactive volunteering.Over the course...2024-06-1326 min

Tactics&Practice [podcast](un)real data | Ep.#3: Unmasking AI’s Pixel Puppetry [w/ Eryk Salvaggio] What exactly is in the images generated by AI? Is it possible to decode training datasets and detect biases that fusion models, such as Dall-E or Midjourney, reproduce? Eryk Salvaggio, researcher and new media artist interested in the social and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence, suggests a method that enables anyone to peel off the layers behind the datasets. Exploiting the ghost human labour needed to create images and label them, the full automation of AI dehumanises the representation of the real, reducing it to clusters of pixels rearranged by statistical mathematical models. However, human agency and creativity are...2024-05-3000 min

The Algorithmic Futures PodcastThe art of artificial intelligence, with Eryk SalvaggioIn the age of DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, what counts as art? And what can art tell us about AI? In this episode, we explore these questions and more with the help of Eryk Salvaggio, a US-based artist, designer and researcher whose work explores the fabric of artificial intelligence -- and often playfully defies its boundaries. Credits Guest – Eryk Salvaggio Hosts – Zena Assaad and Liz Williams Producers – Robbie Slape, Zena Assaad, Liz Williams Audio Producer – Martin Franklin (East Coast Studio) Thank you to the Australian National Centre for the Pu...2024-04-2343 min

amplifyamplify #102 - Future Music Panel Live @ Music Current Festival 2024A special live episode of amplify which was recorded at this year's Music Current Festival panel discussion presented in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre. The panel was chaired by CMC's Director, Evonne Ferguson. Show Notes "Here, four composers, academics, researchers and media artists share insights into their personal practices, working methods, compositional techniques, rationale, and the strategies they use to approach compositional problems, and how technology might inform future music developments." Source: Music Current Festival - Future Music Pa...2024-04-2340 min

Keen On AmericaEyeless in Digital Gaza: Eryk Salvaggio sifts through the debris of our AI age in which we can no longer trust anything we seeEPISODE 1913: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to new media artist Eryk Salvaggio who sifts through the debris of an AI age in which we can no longer trust anything we seeEryk Salvaggio is an interdisciplinary design researcher and new media artist. His work explores emerging technologies through a critically engaged lens, testing their mythologies and narratives against their impacts on social and cultural ecosystems. His work, which focuses on generativity and artificial intelligence, often exposes the ideologies embedded into technologies. His work has been curated into film and music festivals, gallery installations, and conferences...2024-01-0541 min

WebcologyThe Resistance Fuels Innovation EditionIn an interesting interview with A.I. researcher and artist Eryk Salvaggio, founder of the Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (ARRG!), hosts Jim Hedger and Kristine Schachinger discuss generative A.I. and the arts. After Eyrk explains how A.I. image models work to generate images from chaos, the interview explores the immediate effects of A.I. on the art world, how A.I. might shape or augment an artist’s creativity, how it will impact the business models of creativity, and how to protect artists and content creators. Along the way, we examine some of the ethics of using ge...2023-09-2854 min

Engelberg Center Live!GenAI & the Creativity Cycle: Copyright and open sharing of heritage collections and data: bounty or bane for creativity in the age of AI?Marta Belcher (Filecoin Foundation) moderating a conversation with Aviya Skowron (EleutherAI), Dave Hansen (Authors Alliance), Rebekah Tweed (All Tech Is Human), and Eryk Salvaggio (Siegel Family Endowment) 2023-09-2843 min

Ears Have EyesEars Have Eyes - Episode May 10, 2023RADIANT WAVES: resonating and shiny; too bright to see EARS HAVE EYES is a monthly program featuring sound art, spoken word, and experimental music submitted by local, national, and international artists. Today’s theme, RADIANT WAVES, comes from the invisible transmissions moving through our bodies at all times - washing over us and our environment, emitting outwards from inside us, passing through us without our noticing, flowing back and forth in an infinite connection between ‘self’ and ‘world.’ ARTISTS: Benoit Bories Eryk Salvaggio Jon Middleton 2023-05-1400 min

Ears Have EyesEars Have Eyes - Episode April 12, 2023SLOW REVEAL: hidden beneath the Winter sheath, released by thaw of Spring The work on this month’s program arrive as an emergence - shaking off the cold and rust and loneliness of Wintertime, and flowering outwards into the sun. As we here in Calgary/Mohkinstsis emerge from a cold winter into the uncertain thaw of Spring, we share the residual creative output of that long, dark time. Today's compositions respond to the sprouting of nature after the winter subsides, the slow portrait of a person through documentary storytelling, the revealing of a place th...2023-04-1400 min