AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli

About this episode

Matteo Pasquinelli discusses the complexities of artificial intelligence and its implications on society.

This week we have a special episode for you as part of our inter-season programming - an interview with Matteo Pasquinelli. Of course, we’re still working hard to bring you more roundtable discussions with our wonderful Verso authors in our upcoming fourth series of The Verso Podcast, but until then we hope you’ll enjoy the exciting interim episodes we have in store for you. Matteo Pasquinelli is an associate professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. His writing has appeared in AI and Society, e-flux, Multitudes, Radical Philosophy, the South Atlantic Quarterly, and many other places besides. He is the author of several books, including his most recent work, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence - out now with Verso Books (https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/735-the-eye-of-the-master). Matteo sat down with Richard Hames to explore some of the ideas laid out in his latest text - cutting against popular understandings of artificial intelligence that have come to increasingly dominate our cultural imaginaries, our workplaces, our digital lives, and our visions of…

People in this episode

Host: Richard Hames

Guest: Matteo Pasquinelli

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• automation
• philosophy of science
• cultural heritage
• digital life

Keywords

• AI
• automation
• algorithms
• philosophy
• social history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Verso Books

Books & works: The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

Places: Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

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