What does a publisher actually do once the business becomes the data, not the book? Magnús talks with Pietro Segreto, a PhD student in Rome studying AI and publishing, about the glass box from 1423, AI as a backward-looking shadow, and the story that named the episode: it isn't a closed box, it's a bucket each generation fills for the next.

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PhD student, University of Rome Tor Vergata

A conversation with Eyjólfur Guðmundsson — former rector of the University of Akureyri, faculty dean at the Agricultural University of Iceland, and a former economist at CCP (EVE Online). AI as an amplifier, the LLM as Minecraft, the bucket each generation must fill, the benevolent cage and data sovereignty — and why it is about governance, not technology.

Guðmundur Smári Gunnarsson and I start with golf and end in a larger conversation about the body, rhythm and AI as a training partner. Skill is built in the body.

How AI fits into making Temjum tæknina — from recording to release — with Dr. Sigrún Stefánsdóttir. The conversation is the raw material; the machine works from it, never instead of it.