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How to Hack Democracy
Episode 8
Last year, the venture capitalist Marc Andreesen published a document he called “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.” In it, he argued that “everything go…
1 year, 10 months ago
How AI Turbocharged the Economy (For Now)
Episode 7
If you listened to our last couple of episodes, you’ll have heard some pretty skeptical takes on AI. But if you look at the stock market right now, y…
1 year, 10 months ago
Douglas Rushkoff Doesn’t Want to Talk About AI
Episode 6
Douglas Rushkoff has spent the last thirty years studying how digital technologies have shaped our world. The renowned media theorist is the author o…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Real World Cost of AI
Episode 5
It seems like the loudest voices in AI often fall into one of two groups. There are the boomers – the techno-optimists – who think that AI is going t…
1 year, 11 months ago
Can AI Bring Humanity Back to Health Care?
Episode 4
Think about the last time you felt let down by the health care system. You probably don’t have to go back far. In wealthy countries around the world,…
2 years ago
The Battle for Your Brain
Episode 3
Earlier this year, Elon Musk’s company Neuralink successfully installed one of their brain implants in a 29 year old quadriplegic man named Noland Ar…
2 years ago
Can AI Companions Cure Loneliness?
Episode 2
When Eugenia Kuyda saw Her for the first time – the 2013 film about a man who falls in love with his virtual assistant – it didn’t read as science fi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Maria Ressa saw the dangers of social media. AI might be worse.
Episode 1
In the last few years, artificial intelligence has gone from a novelty to perhaps the most influential technology we’ve ever seen. The people buildin…
2 years, 1 month ago
Introducing Machines Like Us
We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction w…
2 years, 1 month ago