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2024-04-07 Could Robots Be Persons?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What would it mean to assign legal or moral responsibility to algorithms in human form?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WNED Buffalo, GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
2415: Could Robots Be Persons?, 4/9/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What would it mean to assign legal or moral responsibility to algorithms in human form?

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Season 1, Episode 1 - 'Healthy Work' feat Taylor Jacobson
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Taylor Jacobson, CEO of Workmates, discusses the evolution of ‘work’ culture.

Bought by KSTK, KTRT RADIO INC, WDSE, and WOJB


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 4
2022-06-05 Conscious Machines
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Would a race of thinking, autonomous, conscious machines be our slaves, our masters, or our partners?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Poison Makers: On Liberal Modernity
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show centers on the life and thought of Tanaka Shozo, a radical environmental thinker in early 20th century Japan who criticized the modernizin...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
UBI and Utopia: Part Two of The Automation Ruse
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is economic historian Aaron Benanav, and our show is about automation and the future of work where the road to Utopia (yellow brick and o...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Automation Ruse, Part One: Jason E. Smith on Economic Stagnation
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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With as much as 85% of US jobs now classed in the service sector, where concepts like productivity are hard if not impossible to measure, can autom...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19 ENCORE
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Gig Workers, driver's for app companies such as Lyft and Uber, are struggling during COVID-19. They're considered essential workers, so they can st...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Coming of Neo Feudalism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Kotkin
Feudalism. Now that’s a word you don’t hear very often. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a structured society of that nature. But, even more c...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
It Came from R&D!
From: San Francisco Mime Troupe
Series: Tales of the Resistance
Caption: Cover art, Credit: Lawton Lovely
Greg seemed to everyone like a mild mannered software developer. No one could predict that his invention could either save democracy, or lock the c...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:03
Marcus Courtney, Founder of WASH Tech/CWA 37083 & Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Marcus Courtney
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores labor history hoping listen...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Not Better Than Jail
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we share a panel that took place last week in Indianapolis. As we heard last episode, Indiana Against E-Carceration has been organizing ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:02
Resistance to E-Carceration
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we share a statement from former political prisoner Ray Luc Levassuer about the recent death of his comrade, Tom Manning. Then, we speak...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:04
407: What's Wrong With Work? / 408: Imagining Climate Change, 8/31/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "What's Wrong With Work?" - Journalists in tents. Professors below the poverty line. When good jobs don't cut it anymore, what's wrong wi...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
A Technology Tsunami
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Ed Hess
America is set to lose tens of millions of job in the next 15 years. Some of the best research today estimates that one half of all U.S. jobs will ...

Bought by KCBX, KZYX, and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Meet Your Robot Barista
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Meet Your Robot Barista, Credit: Seth Shostak
We sip lattes in a robot café and contemplate the future of work. Our mechanical barista is just a start as robots and A.I. train to do a variety o...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
303: What's Wrong With Work? / 304: Automate It, 9/1/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "What's Wrong With Work?" - Journalists in tents. Professors below the poverty line. When good jobs don't cut it anymore, what's wrong wi...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
World in Progress 05/31/18
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Working against the odds - South Korea's automation craze is taking a toll on employees. Former gang members in El Sal...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Making Data Shift Power: Bex Hong Hurwitz and Rashida Richardson
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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It seems like the only tech headlines we have are about disasters. But what about the original promise of tech to innovate and empower? Bex Hong Hu...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The War On Normal People
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Yang
According to a 2016 report by Business Insider magazine, three of the world’s largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Workers, Wildcats & New Models for Labor Organizing
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Laura talks to SEIU International President, Mary Kay Henry (of the Service Employees) and labor journalist Sarah Jaffe about worker wins, challeng...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 18, 2018
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 1
Humility is the New Smart Age
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward D. Hess
If we were on a ship at sea, and learned of the impending tsunami, we’d do everything we could to prepare for the collision.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending March 25, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Challenging Elite Bipartisan Consensus: Primary Election Results Reflect G...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Car Mechanic
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Dahl Automotive Museum, Credit: Teri Tenseth Market
On this episode of Culture Clique, we get underneath the hood and learn about the automotive repair field. We visit with two technicians, Hannah an...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 19:06
The Shell Game of Digital Liberation
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our program today is "The Shell Game of Digital Liberation." Segment One: The Amazonization of Everything. We’ll take a look at what Jeff Bezos ha...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 59:44