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.
Dónal and Ciarán are back to discuss some of the various costs of AI, as we reach the middle of 2026 and see the AI valuation bubble and its associated hype continue to expand. In this episode, the focus is on data centres - especially in Ireland - as well as a range of the costs of AI that demand our attention at a time when the focus is usually on the opportunities instead. Topics in this episode: The environmental costs of data centres - in Ireland and elsewhere - as gas-fired electricity ...
20 Feb 2026
Hype, Hazards, Harms, and Help
Dónal and Ciarán return for a new year of new updates and new concerns in the world of Generative Artificial Intelligence. Again for 2026, the podcast will provide roughly quarterly updates on major themes and topics and this Spring episode covers recent news and connects with older themes and conversations. Topics in this episode "BUBBLEWATCH" - new precarious developments in the massive valuations of a small number of tech companies at the forefront of AI development, and some concerns abou...
4 Dec 2025
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, OpenAI's decision to allow AI erotica for adults, and the push to get AI into education - as well as the associated concerns. This last quarterly update for 2025 draws together some themes that you've identified in your submitted comments and questions and tries to e...
20 Aug 2025
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 is it pops. Relevant to their discussion of the need for AI models to keep the hype levels high, they discuss the muted reception to the release of ChatGPT-5 and some of the emerging strategies to make AI chatbots more palatable to certain audiences who are worried about "woke". Topics in this episode...
13 May 2025
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 and full of flattery at the same time as our ability to meaningfully supervise them seems to be diminishing. Topics in this episode Can we see how reasoning models reason? If AI is thinking, or sharing information and it's not in human language, how can w...
24 Feb 2025
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 a summary of what's happened since last November and answers some of your submitted questions. (Thanks for those!) Topics in this episode We can't avoid talking about them: Musk & Trump and some of the effects they've both had on the AI space in the...
26 Nov 2024
06 Doom of Humanity?
Dónal and Ciarán explore the potential doom of humanity from AI, examining real and fictional scenarios, and what we can learn from sci-fi to prepare for a potentially catastrophic future.
18 Nov 2024
05 Misinformation and Regulation
Dónal and Ciarán discuss some of the concerns about misinformation and disinformation that have emerged with the rise of impressively capable GenAI models, and provide some detail on what their effects might be. They discuss the calls for regulation and how this has begun to take shape in the EU, Ireland, and elsewhere.Topics in this episodeWhat are the implications for misinformation inherent in the current and emerging GenAI models?Why have there been calls to pause development, and w...
11 Nov 2024
04 Digesting The Data
Dónal and Ciarán discuss the vast ocean of data that Large Language Models (LLMs) depend on for their training, covering some of the issues of access to that data and the biases reflected within it. This episode should help you better understand some aspects of the AI training process.Topics in this episodeWhat data is being used to train models like ChatGPT?What are "supervised" or "unsupervised" machine learning methods?How have the owners of copyright data, like news organisations, reacted...
4 Nov 2024
03 Meet The Models
Dónal and Ciarán talk you through everything that's emerged since capable Large Language Models entered the chat a few years ago - up to late 2024, at least! This episode covers the companies, models, and tools that have become central to contemporary GenAI, and will broaden your understanding of where things are beyond ChatGPT.Topics in this episodeWhat are Transformer models and why are these significant?How did OpenAI come to dominate this space?Who are the other organisations to know and ...
4 Nov 2024
02 Long Time Coming
Dónal and Ciarán go back, back, back to see how the long history of computing machines connects to the AI revolution we're in now.Topics in this episodeHow far back does the history of humans building machines to aid our thinking go?Why are French weaving machines and alcoholic poet's daughters involved?How does the history of computing go through County Cork in the 1800s?Who are Turning and Shannon, and why do workplace disagreements leading to new companies fracturing off seem to be a...
4 Nov 2024
01 Let's Get Started
Dónal and Ciarán start the series with some explainers that should help you sound much more knowledgeable discussing the state of contemporary AI at your next dinner party.Topics in this episodeWhat is AI? Why has it seemed to appear so recently and become so important?What's the difference between AI and GenAI?What is ChatGPT and how do models like it work?What are the other important AI tools to be aware of?What does this technology hold for the future of science and society?Are we all doom...
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