Lisa Messeri, "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" (Duke UP, 2024)
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society’s ills. Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of this community, which conceptualized VR as an “empathy…
Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri), April 15 2024
Will AI someday do all our scientific research for us? Not likely. Drs. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri join for a takedown of the hype of "self-driving labs" and why such misrepresentations also harm the humans who are vital to scientific research.
Dr. Molly Crockett is an associate professor of p…
Lisa Messeri: Unreal Realities in Los Angeles and VR | Urgent Futures Ep. 8
Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.
The best way to support the show, you ask? Pop over to YouTube and hit that Subscribe bu…
Objective, with Lisa Messeri and M. J. Crockett
In this episode, Lisa Messeri and M. J. Crockett discuss how scientists are in danger of overlooking AI tools’ limitations, and how science is made stronger by questioning its obsession with objectivity. Recorded April 18, 2024. Released May 27, 2024.
Artificial intelligence and illusions of unders…
Meredith Broussard: How 'Technochauvinism' Leads to Bad AI | Urgent Futures #19
My guest this week is data journalist & professor Meredith Broussard.
The public discourse around AI is noisy. Depending on where you turn, it’s either about to save the world or destroy the world, grant you magical powers or take your job and leave you penniless. But AI is a very real thing happen…
Michael Mezzatesta: Why Isn't the Economy Working? An Economist's Case for Post-Growth | #23
Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.
Support the show by checking out: ZBiotics (Decrease impact of hangovers. Code: JESSEDAM…
Explaining Trump Tariffs, Insider Trading, & Crypto Scams—Emerging Economic Realities with Michael Mezzatesta | Rapid Response #7
Bit of a different episode this week! It’s a recording of my Substack Live with Better Future w/ Michael Mezz, where we dive into all the topics listed in the title, plus a few surprises.
It was a fun little experiment that ends up packing a punch—all thanks to Michael’s ability to sensemake such v…
39. Space Law
Space law! What is it? This week Tamsin Phillipa Paige speaks to Stacey Henderson and
Cris van Eijk to find out!
Recommendations!
On the 'other' bi- and plurilateral space treaties:
• Jean-Frederic Morin, 'Space Actors and Governance Explorer' (2024) www.institutions.space.
• Pauline Pic, Phili…
Science, AI, and illusions of understanding
AI will fundamentally transform science. It will supercharge the research process, making it faster and more efficient and broader in scope. It will make scientists themselves vastly more productive, more objective, maybe more creative. It will make many human participants—and probably some human s…
The Craft of Science with AI: Evidence, Judgment, and Practice | Public Panel
As AI is integrated into scientific practice, the practice of science itself is changing. AI models that summarize, categorize, simulate, and predict not only stand to accelerate scientific research; they now sit inside these practices, alternately enhancing and eroding craft while shifting how que…
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