Alive to This

AI & Human Futures

Roundtables with Eleanor Gammell

Malcolm TurnbullMalcolm TurnbullFormer Prime MinisterIan ThorpeIan ThorpeOlympian · AdvocateJess ScullyJess ScullyCivic StrategistSarah WilsonSarah WilsonAuthorA.C. GraylingA.C. GraylingPhilosopherGina ChickGina ChickWriter · AdventurerSimon LongstaffSimon LongstaffEthicistKrista TippettKrista TippettBroadcasterDavid BeaumontDavid BeaumontWiradjuri ManDevon WhittleDevon WhittleGlobal ShieldTiberio CaetanoTiberio CaetanoChief ScientistMalcolm TurnbullMalcolm TurnbullFormer Prime MinisterIan ThorpeIan ThorpeOlympian · AdvocateJess ScullyJess ScullyCivic StrategistSarah WilsonSarah WilsonAuthorA.C. GraylingA.C. GraylingPhilosopherGina ChickGina ChickWriter · AdventurerSimon LongstaffSimon LongstaffEthicistKrista TippettKrista TippettBroadcasterDavid BeaumontDavid BeaumontWiradjuri ManDevon WhittleDevon WhittleGlobal ShieldTiberio CaetanoTiberio CaetanoChief ScientistMalcolm TurnbullMalcolm TurnbullFormer Prime MinisterIan ThorpeIan ThorpeOlympian · AdvocateJess ScullyJess ScullyCivic StrategistSarah WilsonSarah WilsonAuthorA.C. GraylingA.C. GraylingPhilosopherGina ChickGina ChickWriter · AdventurerSimon LongstaffSimon LongstaffEthicistKrista TippettKrista TippettBroadcasterDavid BeaumontDavid BeaumontWiradjuri ManDevon WhittleDevon WhittleGlobal ShieldTiberio CaetanoTiberio CaetanoChief Scientist
Luke KempLuke KempRisk ResearcherAlexander BeinerAlexander BeinerWriterCatriona WallaceCatriona WallaceAI EthicistSister AnayahSister AnayahSister of MaryBerry LibermanBerry LibermanPublisher · InvestorHolly RankinHolly RankinArtist · StrategistDamon GameauDamon GameauFilmmakerJoel PearsonJoel PearsonNeuroscientistMaia GouldMaia GouldCybernetics ProfessorDr Monty BadamiDr Monty BadamiAnthropologistArnagretta HunterArnagretta HunterCardiologistGreg SadlerGreg SadlerPolicy AdvocateBeeban KidronBeeban KidronHouse of LordsChanel ContosChanel ContosPolicy AdvocateAndrea MiottiAndrea MiottiSuperintelligence Luke KempLuke KempRisk ResearcherAlexander BeinerAlexander BeinerWriterCatriona WallaceCatriona WallaceAI EthicistSister AnayahSister AnayahSister of MaryBerry LibermanBerry LibermanPublisher · InvestorHolly RankinHolly RankinArtist · StrategistDamon GameauDamon GameauFilmmakerJoel PearsonJoel PearsonNeuroscientistMaia GouldMaia GouldCybernetics ProfessorDr Monty BadamiDr Monty BadamiAnthropologistArnagretta HunterArnagretta HunterCardiologistGreg SadlerGreg SadlerPolicy AdvocateBeeban KidronBeeban KidronHouse of LordsChanel ContosChanel ContosPolicy AdvocateAndrea MiottiAndrea MiottiSuperintelligence
About This Series

We’re living through a moment in time that’s difficult to make sense of and impossible to ignore.

AI is reshaping our work, our decisions and how we imagine what might come next. Underneath, something is fraying: our sense of connection, our trust, our capacity to make meaning together.

Portrait of Eleanor Gammell
Roundtables

We begin in that tension.

Ten chapters. Ten roundtables. Voices across disciplines, gathered not to perform certainty, but to meet what this moment is asking of us: what’s breaking, what’s at stake, and what it means to remain human in the midst of it all.

Convened by Eleanor Gammell, each conversation moves into the forces reshaping our minds, our relationships, our systems. And the quieter ways we might still find each other.

Chapters

Tiberio Caetano, Holly Rankin and Damon Gameau in conversation
Latest chapter · 08

Going Upstream

Tiberio Caetano · Holly Rankin · Damon Gameau

An AI chief scientist, a policy strategist and a filmmaker take us upstream: who is deciding where AI goes, and does the public still have a say?

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The full series

01

Who’s in Charge?

Malcolm Turnbull · Ian Thorpe · Jess Scully
02

Collapse of Systems, not our Humanity

Sarah Wilson · A.C. Grayling · Luke Kemp
03

AI & Our God-shaped Hole

Alexander Beiner · Catriona Wallace
04

Despair Is Not a Strategy

Krista Tippett · Berry Liberman
05

Attachment Hacking

Joel Pearson · Maia Gould · Dr Monty Badami
06

Wisdom, Reframed

Gina Chick · Simon Longstaff · David Beaumont · Sister Anayah
07

Catastrophic Risk

Devon Whittle · Arnagretta Hunter · Greg Sadler
08

Going Upstream

Tiberio Caetano · Holly Rankin · Damon Gameau
09

Superintelligence

Andrea Miotti · Alexander Beiner
10

Algorithmic Consent

Beeban Kidron · Chanel Contos
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“We were made for these times, and we were made for each other in them.”
Joanna Macy

We acknowledge the Gadigal People of Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which we convene these roundtables. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.