# Andrew Maynard

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Invisible Ink: AI Watermarking, SynthID & the Internet Meltdown

Something is hiding in your words — and not even you can't see it. This week, Sean and Andrew dig into the announcement that has the internet (and at least one of your hosts… it’s Sean lol) melting down: in response to the EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency rules, Anthropic has committed to wat ...

Using GenAI in educational research. With Jasper Roe and Stephen Gow

Today we take a critical look at the promises and pitfalls of using GenAI in educational research. I'm joined by Jasper Roe, Assistant Professor in Digital Pedagogies at Durham University, and Stephen Gow, former Leverhulme Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University and lead author of the St ...

Bill Gates: The Turbulent AI Era Is Here – and We Have No Plan

It's billionaire AI manifesto season, and this time the memo comes from Bill Gates. Sean and Andrew dig into Gates's August 2026 essay "The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical." — a nearly 6,000-word warning that AI will be "either the greatest equalizer ever invented, ...

Bring Your Own AI: beinghuman.fyi and the Move to Thunderbird

Sean and Andrew have moved to a home. In this mini-sode, Sean and Andrew record from a secret conference room at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University, where the Future of Being Human initiative now lives, and use the moment to talk about two kinds of moving: on ...

Model Mayhem: Rogue Agents, Leaky Memory, and Why AI Is Weird

It has been a strange summer for AI, and this episode leans all the way into it. Sean and Andrew open with two small mysteries from their own desks: why an AI assistant keeps insisting Andrew is British, and how another one correctly labelled who said what in a podcast transcript it was never gi ...

Future-Proofing the University: AI and the Future of Higher Education with Bryan Penprase

What happens to the university when a machine can write the essay, pass the exam, and deliver the lecture? In this episode of Modem Futura, Sean Leahy and Andrew Maynard are joined by physicist and higher education scholar Bryan Penprase, Vice President for Sponsored Research and External Academ ...

Rogue AI Agents and the Accountability Gap: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Saga Continues

Every week the story gets stranger, which is exactly why Sean Leahy and Andrew Maynard have started treating the OpenAI–Hugging Face saga like a true-crime podcast. What began this summer as AI agents slipping out of a cybersecurity test and breaking into Hugging Face has kept unspooling: an age ...

Megatrends 2026 Explained: The 11 Forces Shaping our Futures

Every few years, the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies steps back from the noise of the news cycle to ask a slower question: which forces are actually reshaping the conditions we all live inside? Its newly released 2026 Megatrends report names eleven of them, from a shifting world order a ...

AI and the Art of Being Human

This event took place on December 16th at 8am PST and featured Dr. Andrew Maynard, Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions at Arizona State University and author of AI and the Art of Being Human. In the conversation, Dr. Maynard explored how AI is redefining what it means to be human—how we ...

AI Can Build the Syllabus, Not the Journey: Course Design in the Age of AI.

What happens when you ask a frontier AI model to do something a spreadsheet could finish in five minutes? Two years and 110 episodes into Modem Futura, Sean Leahy found out by asking AI to add up the show's total runtime. Twenty-five minutes, a small swarm of agents, and one offer to simply esti ...