Conversations
Interviews
Long-form conversations with people thinking about democracy, technology and history — plus a few from further afield.
Most of these come from Democracy Innovators, the podcast I host about how democracy can evolve. A few come from elsewhere.
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Ryan Koch on civic innovation and the effective use of AI
Ryan Koch — host of Civic Tech Chat
How civic tech grew from volunteer networks into a profession, and what AI changes about what people can build for the public good.
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Gianluca Misuraca on AI in the public sector
Gianluca Misuraca — Inspiring Futures Europe
The coordinator of the EU AI Skills Academy on how foresight helps societies shape technology instead of only reacting to it.
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Alvaro Oleart on EU participation and the limits of AI for democracy
Alvaro Oleart — Université Libre de Bruxelles
Citizen assemblies, the instrumentalisation of EU participation processes, and where Big Tech fits into all of it.
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Hélène Landemore on deliberative democracy and citizens’ assemblies
Hélène Landemore — Yale University
Why representation keeps disappointing us, and what open democracy and citizens’ assemblies could put in its place.
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Tiago Peixoto on collective action and reforming democratic systems
Tiago Peixoto
How hard it is to reform democratic institutions from the inside, and what collective action can still do.
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Una, nessuna e centomila storie — dialogo con Alessandro Barbero
Alessandro Barbero — historian
A conversation with the historian Alessandro Barbero about history, storytelling and how the past reaches us. In Italian.