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Ellen Broad is a boardgame designer. But that's not actually why I'm talking to her for Uplink. The boardgames was something of a byproduct – her main focus is being a rather brilliant thinker on all things data and AI. In her career, Broad has worked for governments and UN bodies to help plot the future of data, digital issues and AI ethics, and she has also worked for Australia's digital transformation and innovation body, Data61, and as the head of policy for the Open Data Institute and today she is a Senior Fellow at ANU's 3Ai Institute. You can also buy her book in all the typical places. It's called - Made By Humans: The AI Condition. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information.

Siobhan Reddy, Studio Director at Media Molecule (makers of LittleBigPlanet and the new Dreams), talks to Uplink about her mission in games development and the drive to create games that are also a tool for people to explore their creativity. And what it means to build communities of people who create and share together. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information.

Today Seamus speaks with Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell AO. She's a cultural anthropologist who spent two decades at Intel and is known as one of the most important thinkers on technology and culture. She returned to Australia in recent years to create an entirely new school of research at ANU, named 3Ai. We explore the aims of the new school, why it matters, and what the big issues are for technology in society today. And like any conversation with Professor Bell we get anecdotes from the past to help us understand that where we're going next isn't all that new... if only we can learn from the history lessons that can help pave the way... Find out more about 3Ai: https://3ainstitute.cecs.anu.edu.au/ See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information.

Seamus speaks to David Gaider, a Canadian author and narrative designer for games, and creator of many wonderful stories and characters in some of the best loved roleplaying games in videogame history. At Bioware games he worked on Baldur's Gate 2, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, and the Dragon Age series of games, before setting out on his own after 17 years at the studio. In 2019 it was announced that he was co-founding a new studio based in Melbourne, Summerfall Studios, and at the time we spoke in October we only knew the first game was set to take the adventure genre somewhere surprising. The game was set to launch a crowdfunding campaign less than two weeks after our conversation during his keynote address at PAX Australia. We spoke in October 2019 ahead of the official announcement of Chorus: An Adventure Musical. https://www.summerfallstudios.com/ [https://www.summerfallstudios.com/] https://www.fig.co/campaigns/chorus-an-adventure-musical [https://www.fig.co/campaigns/chorus-an-adventure-musical] See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information.