This episode covers the role of fiction -- literal readings and total misreadings of sci-fi -- in how they shape tech CEOs ideas about the future. Teresa Hefffernan is incredible at communicating the problems with AI today. Please listen to the podcast/lecture linked below, too, for more. Recorded June 10, 2026. Released June 15, 2026.

CBC Ideas Literature Versus the AI Industry

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16208906-literature-versus-ai-industry

The 2026 Wiegand Lecture featuring Teresa Heffernan — Literature Versus the AI Industry

https://youtu.be/hPV-Ql_KGzM?si=XperXIzFO5ydcStU

Teresa Hefffernan website

https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/publicationsmedia/publications/

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This episode is with the amazing Valerie Veatch, director of Ghost in the Machine -- a documentary that serves as a critical takedown of "AI". It's the best argument against "AI" that I've seen, highlighting the voices of scholars across various academic disciplines. You can watch the film via the link below and listen to the director explain her process and ideas for continuing the conversation... as a trilogy. Recorded May 12, 2026. Released May 25, 2026.

Ghost in the Machine 2026 • 1h 30m • Documentary • Valerie Veatch (dir)

https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p

Not AI

https://notaidoc.com/

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In this episode, in front of a live audience at Carleton University for their "The Ends of AI: A symposium on technopolitics and intellectual culture", I spoke about strategies and outlooks on environment justice with policy expert, Sonja Solomun. Recorded Apr 2, 2026. Released May 11, 2026.

The end of accountability: How autonomous AI could supercharge climate disinformation

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/27/opinion/ai-conspiracies-climate-disinformation

Polarization as the technological goal – not the error

https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com/all-work/polarization-as-the-technological-goal-not-the-error

From Tech to Justice: A Call for Environmental Justice in AI

https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/collection/a-new-ai-lexicon-sustainability

Beyond Technology: The Role of Information Interference in Climate and Election Obstruction

https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com/all-work/beyond-technology-the-role-of-information-interference-in-climate-and-election-obstruction

“You will be in positions that matter. Positions in which you can decide the

nature and quality of other people’s lives. Your errors may be irrevocable.

So when you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you

think, so your thoughts, your solutions, your directions, your choices about

who lives and who doesn’t, about who flourishes and who doesn’t will be

worth the very sacred life you have chosen to live. You are not helpless.

You are not heartless. And you have time.”

― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

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