Enough About AI
A podcast that brings you enough about the key tech topic of our time for you to feel a bit more confident and informed. Dónal Mulligan, a media and technology lecturer, and Ciarán O'Connor, a disinformation expert, help you explore and understand how AI is affecting our lives.
Enough About AI
Latest Episodes
The Costs of AI
Dónal and Ciarán are back to discuss some of the various costs of AI, as we reach the middle of 2026 and see the AI valuation bubble and its associated hype continue to expand. In this episode, the focus is on data centres - especially in Irela...
Hype, Hazards, Harms, and Help
Dónal and Ciarán return for a new year of new updates and new concerns in the world of Generative Artificial Intelligence. Again for 2026, the podcast will provide roughly quarterly updates on major themes and topics and this Spring episode cov...
Expansion, Economics, Erotica & Education.
Dónal and Ciarán return with more "Bubble Watch", reporting on the latest expansion in valuations, hype, and attempts to find new ways to commercialise AI. Among those potential avenues to income, they discuss emerging AI robots, OpenA...
Bursting the Bubble?
Dónal and Ciarán explore the increasingly looming questions about the overinflation of the major AI companies' valuations and the anxiety about whether we are in a bubble - and what might happen if it pops. Relevant to their discussion of the n...
Alignment Anxieties & Persuasion Problems
Dónal and Ciarán continue the 2025 season with a second quarterly update that looks at some recent themes in AI development. They're pondering doom again, as we increasingly grapple with the evidence that AI systems are powerfully persuasive an...
