
Urgent Futures with Jesse Damiani
Hosted by Jesse Damiani · Jesse Damiani
4.9from 59 ratings
- 107
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 59
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Urgent Futures with Jesse Damiani
Welcome to the Urgent Futures Podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each episode, I sit down with leading thinkers for dialogues that clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos. www.realitystudies.co (https://www.realitystudies.co?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Jesse Damiani
- Category
- society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Sept 2023
- Latest episode
- 13 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 107 episodes have a transcript.

13 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
AI’s Climate Footprint: New Report Argues We’ve Been Dramatically Underestimating the Energy & Emissions Toll - Erald Kolasi | Rapid Response #31

1 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Future of Free Speech & Censorship - Karen Attiah | Rapid Response #30

25 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
On 'Withnessing': Storytelling, Spirituality, & Healing Toward Freedom - Maytha Alhassen | Rapid Response #29
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AI’s Climate Footprint: New Report Argues We’ve Been Dramatically Underestimating the Energy & Emissions Toll - Erald Kolasi | Rapid Response #31
Published 13 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so one of the things that we do in the piece and that we wrestled with is how should we even define artificial intelligence, right? Now, there are many, many definitions of it out there, right? You could go back to Marvin Minsky, you know, one of the original godfathers of AI back in the late 20th century, right? That AI is kind of like a science for getting machines to do things that would require human intelligence, right? That's sort of how you defined it. And Max Tegmark says, well, it's anything that requires complex problem solving. Anything that can solve a complex problem, that's sort of artificial intelligence, just if it's non-biological. […]
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- Erald Kolasi
- Karen Attiah
- Maytha Alhassen
- Juanita M Adames
- Michelle Adames-Sucameli
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- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 22 ratings
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