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Library of Mistakes · 69 episodes with transcripts

Based in Edinburgh, the Library of Mistakes is a free public library designed to improve understanding of finance, one mistake at a time.

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EP 69: The Weekend of AI – part two (with Eve Poole and Vladimir Maltsev)

October 19, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:09)

Welcome to The Library of Mistakes, changing the world, one mistake at a time. Welcome to Shelf Life, and this is the second episode about AI that we've created in the run up to our very exciting Weekend of AI at the end of this month.

We've got two great guests, and Robbie Mochrie, our Errorist in Residence, who's going to be interviewing them. It should be once again a brilliant conversation, and go back and listen to the first one of these AI episodes as well if you enjoy this, because I think they make a great pairing.

SPEAKER_2 (0:44)

A big welcome to Robbie Mochrie, Errorist in Residence at the Library of Mistakes, and organiser of The Weekend of AI, which will be held over three days at the Library of Mistakes from Friday the 30th of October to Sunday the 1st of November. And a big welcome also to Eve Poole and Vladimir Maltsev, who are both…

So Robbie, to get us started, what is the purpose of The Weekend of AI? Who should attend? And what can people expect to gain from coming along?

Robbie Mochrie (1:22)

Okay, so everyone is asking questions about AI at the moment, and what we're doing at the library is to put together a set of conversations. The aim is that they should have a very distinctive tone, so that they will just effortlessly arise above all the chatter. We're expecting them to be serious, of course, but to…

We're told by the people who are developing it that we could be in the shadow of an extinction event. Or perhaps, sometimes they also tell us, we're going to be living in the early years of an age of abundance in which all our jobs will vanish. And according to some of my more skeptical or indeed cynical friends…

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