Computer Says Maybe

This is Computer Says Kill, a new series on series focused on tracing the people, decisions, and systems that have recklessly ushered AI into the business of war.

What we’re watching play out— from AI military chatbots to tech companies in bed with authoritarian governments— isn’t a new story. It's the latest chapter in a much older relationship between technology, military power, institutional systems, and capital— one that has always moved faster than accountability, and always found a way to make the next thing feel inevitable. We're not convinced this is inevitable. But we think it’s time to understand to understand exactly how we got here.

The first episode in the series launches Friday, April 17th.

Computer Says Maybe is produced by Georgia Iacovou, Kushal Dev, Marion Wellington, Sarah Myles, Van Newman, and Zoe Trout

What is Computer Says Maybe?

Technology is changing fast. And it's changing our world even faster. Host Alix Dunn interviews visionaries, researchers, and technologists working in the public interest to help you keep up. Step outside the hype and explore the possibilities, problems, and politics of technology. We publish weekly.

Alix: [00:00:00] I am Alix Dunn, and this is Computer Says, maybe for the next few weeks we are running a special series called Computer Says Kill. It's focused on tracing the people decisions and systems that I think have recklessly ushered AI into the business of war at the worst time imaginable. I have been wrapping my head around this.

For quite some time, but the recent news, and let's be real war crimes and corporate drama had me craving a deep dive. So that's what we're gonna do. Over the next few weeks. We're gonna look at the issue of AI and war from all kinds of vantage points, and hope that after the next few weeks I'll have a better understanding of what's going on.

And so will you. So if you've been curious, frustrated, confused, maybe, enraged, maybe all of those things all at once. When thinking about what's going on in Iran all over the world, from ai, military chatbots to tech companies in bed with increasingly authoritarian governments, do check out the series because hopefully there's a little bit of relief in there once you learn more from [00:01:00] experts all over the world.

Can help ground us in what's really happening.