Enough About AI
A podcast that brings you enough about the key tech topic of our time for you to feel a bit more confident and informed. Dónal Mulligan, a media and technology lecturer, and Ciarán O'Connor, a disinformation expert, help you explore and understand how AI is affecting our lives.
Podcasting since 2024 • 10 episodes
Enough About AI
Latest Episodes
Expansion, Economics, Erotica & Education.
Dónal and Ciarán return with more "Bubble Watch", reporting on the latest expansion in valuations, hype, and attempts to find new ways to commercialise AI. Among those potential avenues to income, they discuss emerging AI robots, OpenA...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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41:35
Bursting the Bubble?
Dónal and Ciarán explore the increasingly looming questions about the overinflation of the major AI companies' valuations and the anxiety about whether we are in a bubble - and what might happen if it pops. Relevant to their discussion of the n...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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46:46
Alignment Anxieties & Persuasion Problems
Dónal and Ciarán continue the 2025 season with a second quarterly update that looks at some recent themes in AI development. They're pondering doom again, as we increasingly grapple with the evidence that AI systems are powerfully persuasive an...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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46:48
Political Upheaval & Reasoning Models
Dónal and Ciarán start a new season for 2025, with a slight change in format to bring you roughly quarterly updates on the themes and topics required to help you know enough about AI. This first episode of 2025, recorded in mid February, gives ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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56:04
2024 E6 Doom of Humanity?
Dónal and Ciarán discuss the ways - both real and imagined in fiction - that AI could bring about civilization-ending doom for us all. What can we learn from how sci-fi has treated this topic? What are the distant and nearer potential dooms, an...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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44:26
