Pioneers of AI
Pioneers of AI is your guide to the latest technological frontier. Each week, host Rana el Kaliouby (AI scientist, investor, author, co-founder of Affectiva) is joined by the leading creators, critics, and thinkers behind mind-blowing technology and asks the important questions about how artificial intelligence is changing the way we live. As we venture together into the unknown, Pioneers is your tool to understanding and anticipating what comes next.
Latest Episode
Possible: Lisa Su on semiconductors, compute, and big bets (15.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- How AI can unlock life-saving cures, with Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Designing AI for people and the planet, with Aza Raskin
- Baratunde Thurston wants us to reimagine our relationship with AI
- Could this be the future of K-12 education?, with Alpha School’s Joe Liemandt
- Vibe coding and the one-person start-up, with Lovable's Anton Osika
- Rapid Response: Hollywood’s hottest AI partner, with Runway’s Cristóbal Valenzuela
- How Harvey is reinventing legal work with AI
- Arianna Huffington thinks AI could be a GPS for the soul
- How Microsoft is democratizing safe AI
- The power of storytelling in VCs, with Jeffrey Katzenberg and ChenLi Wang
- Replay: How AI is shaping the job market, with Hilke Schellmann
- Inside how The New York Times leverages AI
- Back to school: How AI is transforming the classroom, with Sal Khan
- Can artists and AI coexist?
- Does OpenAI’s new model deliver on the hype? Inside GPT-5 with Jeremy Kahn
- Possible: Alexis Ohanian on the future of online and offline communities
- How Writer is helping Fortune 500 companies become AI-forward
- How Google DeepMind is building AI that can help humanity
- Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theories?
- How today’s AI giants mirror global empires of the past, with journalist Karen Hao
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