{"podcast":{"title":"PodQueue","slug":"podqueue-6583043","podcast_index_feed_id":6583043,"rss_url":"https://feeds.podqueue.fm/edsu/podqueue.rss","website_url":"https://podqueue.fm/users/edsu/playlists/podqueue","image_url":"https://assets.podqueue.fm/podqueue.png","author":"PodQueue / edsu","episode_count":300,"summary":"This is a PodQueue playlist for edsu","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T00:21:09.940983+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/podqueue-6583043"},"episode":{"title":"'Resisting AI' with Dan McQuillan | Critical AI Talks","slug":"resisting-ai-with-dan-mcquillan-critical-ai-talks","published_at":"2026-02-02T16:58:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/podqueue-6583043/resisting-ai-with-dan-mcquillan-critical-ai-talks","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/podqueue-6583043","url":"https://podqueue.fm/playlist_items/0e-hobhky2iep552h2tr_xnk","audio_url":"https://podqueue.fm/proxy/uFM8ZxQKosu2iSIzqwp1pw.mp3","summary":"'Resisting AI' with Dan McQuillan Technology and AI are often thought of as being neutral, objective, technical, or apolitical. Our conversation with Dan McQuillan will examine the political stakes of AI, asking what can and should be done—particularly by students and universities. About the speaker Dr. Dan McQuillan is a Senior Lecturer in Critical AI at Goldsmiths, University of London. After a Ph.D in Experimental Particle Physics, Dan worked with people learning disabilities & mental health issues, created websites with asylum seekers, ran social tech camps in Kyrgyzstan and Sarajevo and worked for Amnesty International and the NHS. He is the author of 'Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence'. About the series Critical AI Talks invites leading AI researchers to explore the human and societal impacts of GenAI. Join us at this and other upcoming talks and learn more about the Critical AI Talks series here: https://csma.humanities.mcmaster.ca/our-community/critical-ai/ Timeline and notes 3:15 What is AI? 7:21 How is AI political? - AI alters the distribution of power in the world, intensifying asymmetries of power - perceptions of AI’s “objectivity” have shifted with the rise of GenAI; its failings are more on display - AI is individualizing and thus extends neoliberalism; AI extends the politics of scarcity - AI excises relationships and relationality; it is individualizing and de-relationalizing - Predictive AI was tied to austerity - AI does statistical redlining - the fundamental operations of AI are based on correlation, not causation; they don’t have an understanding of ‘ground truth’ and context, what is really going on; instead it can find a group or sub-group or set of identities that can be blamed for the situation; it’s an “a…","meta_description":"'Resisting AI' with Dan McQuillan Technology and AI are often thought of as being neutral, objective, technical, or apolitical. Our conversation with Dan…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4175,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/podqueue-6583043/episodes/resisting-ai-with-dan-mcquillan-critical-ai-talks/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/podqueue-6583043/resisting-ai-with-dan-mcquillan-critical-ai-talks.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}