Technoprogressive Hub Podcast
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The Technoprogressive Hub is fighting for a high-tech and radically democratic future. Sponsored by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and hosted by J. Hughes.
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Episodes
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- Free Robot Labour! · 1 h 12 minIn Free Robot Labour: Marx, Automation, and the Future of AI (available for free), Jamie Terence Kelly mounts a Marxist critique of the widespread dogma that machines can’t…
- Transhuman Rights and Democracy · 1 h 13 minIn “Human rights under pressure: A future-oriented conception of universal rights” (Futures 182, 2026), Dr. Potz argues that our human rights regime, anchored in a metaphysical…
- Technoprogressives and Rogue AI · 1 h 5 minFresh from the Technoprogressive Opportunity conference in London, J. Hughes and Matteo McDermant ask what a summer of rogue AI should do to left futurism. Matteo describes a…
- Spirituality and Futurist Politics · 32 minRobert Chapman Brooking writes Cosmopolity, a Substack devoted to what he calls cosmopolitan patriotism. He is an advocate of “ultrahumanism” a synthesis of futurism…
- Technoprogressive Worldbuilding · 1 h 36 minThis summer Matteo MacDermant is teaching a course on Technoprogressive Worldbuilding for the IEET. We discuss the themes of the course, and some philosophical reflections about…
- The Best Way to Nationalize AI · 1 h 26 minOpenAI is offering 5% equity to the US government. Trump has ordered the creation of a US sovereign wealth fund, received 10% government equity in Intel, and a “golden share” in…
- Age Verification Laws · 52 minJ Hughes, Sarah Shahed, Matteo MacDermant discuss Sarah’s editorial on age verification laws. We all want to protect children from harm, and age-gating social media websites has…
- Transnational Queer Media · 1 h 16 minThomas Baudinette is Senior Lecturer in Global Cultures at Macquarie University in Australia, a cultural anthropologist whose work maps the role popular culture plays in shaping…
- Science Fiction and Artificial Wombs · 51 minToday on Technoprogressive Hub I’m speaking with Dr. Evie Kendal, a bioethicist and public health scientist at Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology. She is the author…
- Technoprogressive Politicians Emerge · 1 h 10 minAs anxiety about data centers, AI-driven precarity, and tech oligarch authoritarianism mount, progressives have mostly responded with proposals to slow down AI. Bernie in…
- Aleksandra Przegalińska on the Future of Work · 1 h 6 minToday on Technoprogressive Hub we’re speaking with Aleksandra Przegalińska, a philosopher and social scientist of AI. Dr. Przegalińska is Vice Rector and the head of the…
- How Technoprogressive is Bernie/AOC's AI Data Center Proposal? · 59 minThis week on Technoprogressive Hub, Eli, Matteo and J discuss the legislation proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders to restrict the building of AI data centers…
- ProWorker AI? · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 10ProWorker AI? This week on Technoprogressive Hub, Eli, Matteo and J are discussing proposals for pro-worker artificial intelligence laws. Recently David Autor, Daron Acemoglu…
- Mark Walker: Philosopher for the Future · 1 h 10 minOn Technoprogressive Hub, Dr. J. spoke with philosopher Mark Walker about moral enhancement, universal basic income, theology and technoprogressivism. Mark Walker holds the…
- The Pro-Human AI Declaration · 1 h 48 minThe Pro-Human AI Declaration On Technoprogressive Hub, Matteo and J react to the Pro-Human AI Declaration. Co-signed by major progressive and conservative organizations and…
- Post-Labor Economics · 1 h 17 minPost-Labor Economics With David Shapiro David Shapiro is a futurist, author, social media producer, and one of the most prolific popularizers of post-labor economics — the…
- Toward a Technoprogressive Future · 1 h 12 min · Season 1David Wood is a prominent British futurist, author, and pioneer of the smartphone industry as a co-founder of Symbian, the world’s first successful smartphone operating system…
- From The End of History to the Age of AI · 1 h 13 minJoin James Hughes and George Dvorsky for a timely discussion on the Technoprogressive Hub podcast, at the intersection of technology and progressive politics. They explore the…
- From Enshittification to Technofascism · 1 h 17 minToday on Technoprogressive Hub, Matteo and J unpack Cory Doctorow’s enshittification thesis, the emerging concept of technofascism, and the connection between them. “The Age of…
- RJ Eskow on Reclaiming Technology for the People · 1 h 4 minRichard (RJ) Eskow is a journalist and policy consultant, and host of The Zero Hour, a nationally syndicated radio and television program. He has served as a Senior Fellow with…
