The GLaD Podcast

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From the creators of the Spatial Analytics Data interview and seminar series, we bring you the GLaD PodcastGeography, Life Data. A little geography, a little (academic) life, a little geography life, and LOTS about data, mostly spatial. Join your hosts, Dani Arribas-Bel, Rachel Franklin, and Levi Wolf for conversations, interviews, and even a few hot takes.
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Episode 24: AI & GLaD in Practice: a field report
Episode 24
Wednesday, 13 August, 2025

AI is now definitely changing how we live our (geography) lives. Join Rachel, Dani, and Levi for a chat about how Artificial Intelligence is emerging in our GLAD lives. How is it being used "in the wilds" of teaching, research, coding, publishing, and beyond. Should you be farming out your peer reviews to a computer? Vibe coding with your friend Claude? Setting out on AI-generated running routes? And, as always, do we really need more papers faster than ever before? We chat through this, with some advice and reflections on where AI might change our own practice and how it's certainly changing the way academia (writ large) works. Let us know what you think at thegladpodcast@gmail.com. Did we miss something about AI that you now can't live without? Have we missed your favorite anecdote about a deluge of digital dreck? Send us an email! Resources we discussed: Nature's recent editorial on peer review and AI https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00894-7 Harper Reed's post on how to code well with LLMs https://harper.blog/2025/04/17/an-llm-codegen-heros-journey/ Ethan Mollick's "reasoned optimism" about thinking with AI https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ Simon Willison's blog tracking the frontier of LLMs https://simonwillison.org