Intelligence Explosion: Managing the coming wave of hybrid intelligence

In this episode of the Intelligence Explosion podcast, host Tamim Asey sits down with Dr. Janos Mark Szakolczai, author of the forthcoming book Onlife Criminology: Virtual Crimes and Real Harms (Bristol University Press, 2025).

Together they explore how the digital and physical worlds have collapsed into one, creating new forms of crime, harm, and power. The discussion covers everyday surveillance and predictive policing, Big Tech’s business models of addiction and inequality, digital colonialism in the Global South, the erosion of trust through deepfakes and conspiracies, and Dr. Janos’s call for an “Offlife” future to reclaim autonomy in a hyp...

In this episode of the Intelligence Explosion podcast, host Tamim Asey is joined by Professor Andrew Hoskins, Professor of AI, Memory & War at the University of Edinburgh. A leading authority on digital memory and conflict, Professor Hoskins has written extensively on how technology transforms the ways societies record, remember and forget.

He currently leads the ERC/UKRI-funded WARSHARE project, a five-year study of digital participation in the Russian war against Ukraine. His landmark works include Radical War: Data, Attention & Control in the Twenty-First Century, and his forthcoming books Memorybot: AI and the End of the Human Past...

Autonomous systems are no longer the stuff of science fiction - they are already reshaping our lives in many ways . In this episode of Intelligence Explosion, host Tamim Asey sits down with Dr. Zena Assaad award-winning researcher, engineer and podcast host of Responsible Bytes whose groundbreaking work explores the promise, peril and paradox of autonomy and human-machine teaming.

Dr. Assaad has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Women in AI in Asia-Pacific, awarded the Women in AI Defence and Intelligence Award and named among the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics. From unmanned aerial systems to human-machine...

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a future concept in humanitarian work — it’s already reshaping how crises are predicted, aid is delivered and decisions are made on the ground.

In this episode of the Intelligence Explosion podcast, host Tamim Asey with guests unpack the landmark July 2025 report, “How are humanitarians using artificial intelligence in 2025? Mapping Current Practice and Future Potential.” This is the first global snapshot of AI adoption in the humanitarian sector, co-authored by Ka Man Parkinson (Humanitarian Leadership Academy), Madigan Johnson (Data Friendly Space) and Lucy Hall.

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In this thought-provoking episode of Intelligence Explosion, host Tamim Asey speaks with Dr. Sebastian Loewe, Director of UX Design at Virtual Identity and co-author of Design und künstliche Intelligenz, about his pioneering vision for the Empathetic Web—a future where our digital environments understand, anticipate and respond to human emotions.

We explore how the concept emerged from his work in UX and digital interaction, the role of AI in fostering more human-centered online spaces and the design principles needed to make empathy tangible in digital form. Dr. Loewe explains how empathy can be measured, the challenges of...

In this inaugural episode of Intelligence Explosion, host Tamim Asey speaks with Professor Elke Schwarz, a political theorist at Queen Mary University London and Vice Chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control. She is the author of the acclaimed book Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies and a leading expert on the intersection of emerging technologies, cognition and governance. As artificial systems increasingly simulate human thought and decision-making, we explore the scientific foundations of machine intelligence and the structural changes it is driving in warfare, policy and society.

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