- 260
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 41
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 20M
- YouTube views
About Berkeley Talks
A Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- UC Berkeley
- Category
- education · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Nov 2018
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 260 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
W. Kamau Bell on AI, creativity and resisting the pull of automation
21 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Leaping robots, AI companies and a NASA mission
7 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
How we've long misread gun violence (and ways to prevent it)
Inside a recent episode
W. Kamau Bell on AI, creativity and resisting the pull of automation
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Something happened. Or taken over by alien. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's an alien wearing his suit. But yeah, and it was just very clear to me. Again, we remember when cameras couldn't detect black people. Well, which wasn't that long ago. No, I know. It was like six months ago. No, but I'm saying that's what I understand about technology, which I think is important to know technology, is that technology is rarely – well, I'll say rarely – never invented – generally not invented in mass market with black people in mind, unless we're the target of it. Well, yeah. So let's jump a little bit then. So let's talk about that, right? […]
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- W Kamau Bell
- Pieter Abbeel
- Jens Ludwig
- Ula Taylor
- David Chalmers
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 19,802,912
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 25 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 16 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
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- Quality
- 95
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 90
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