Artificial Intelligence and You
Artificial Intelligence and You explores what AI is and how it affects everyday life, work, and the wider world. The show breaks down key concepts and emerging technologies for a general audience. Episodes examine the practical and ethical implications of AI as it becomes more integrated into society.
Episodes
327 - Guest: Maurice Chiodo, Mathematician Researching Ethics, part 2
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I have been talking with Maurice Chiodo, Assistant Research Professor at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, about his new paper titled Reframing AI Loss of Control: What Control Is, How to Have It, How to Lose It and everything that control of AI and loss of it means. Maurice is the principal investigat
326 - Guest: Maurice Chiodo, Mathematician Researching Ethics, part 1
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With so much talk about the need to control AI, and notable incidents of losing control of it, like the OpenAI/HuggingFace incident among others, we will do a deep dive on what control or loss of control of AI means with the help of Maurice Chiodo, Assistant Research Professor at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of
325 - Guest: Joscha Bach, AI Cognition Researcher, part 2
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We are back on the consciousness train again, trying to understand what that thing is. So I've been talking with Joscha Bach, renowned cognitive scientist who uses the lens of artificial intelligence to understand the human mind. He has taught and researched at Humboldt University of Berlin, the Institute for Cognitive Science in Osnabrück, the
324 - Guest: Joscha Bach, AI Cognition Researcher, part 1
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We are back on the consciousness train again, trying to understand what that thing is. Most of us would cop to being conscious, but how many of us have any idea how to describe it, let alone test for it? Here to help with that is Joscha Bach, cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher who uses the lens of artificial intelligence to und
323 - Special: Existential Risk: Where Are We At Now?
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The idea of AI posing an existential risk to the human race is kind of like the Terminator itself – it just keeps coming back. We'll look at some of the history of that issue, how attitudes towards it have waxed and waned over the years, and recent events where AIs have escaped their containers and the reactions - or lack thereof - to those inc
322 - Guest: Mohammed AlQuraishi, AI and Biology Researcher, part 2
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What is AI doing to medicine? Specifically, in molecular biology, and protein folding: figuring out the 3-D structure of proteins. Remember DeepMind's AlphaFold and the announcement of it predicting 200 million protein structures?
I'm talking with one of the top researchers in the world, Professor Mohammed AlQuraishi of Columbia University’s De
321 - Guest: Mohammed AlQuraishi, AI and Biology Researcher, part 1
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What is AI doing to medicine? Specifically, in molecular biology, and protein folding: figuring out the 3-D structure of proteins, which look like the output of a pasta-making machine on LSD. Remember DeepMind's AlphaFold and the announcement of it predicting 200 million protein structures?
I have questions. And here to answer them is one of th
320 - Special: What Have We Learned? A Retrospective
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If you’ve joined us in the last three years, you may not have ever scrolled back to look at the episodes of the show that aired before you came along. But every time I look back over them, I am struck by how much of the content is not just relevant, but deeply valuable. That’s fairly amazing in a world where AI goes through a fundamental change
319 - Guest: Rana Gujral, AI Author, part 2
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I am in the throes of interviewing Rana Gujral, who is CEO of Behavioral Signals, creating systems that infer intent, emotion, and deception risk from voice, deployed in application from financial services to defense. He has a TEDx talk with a million views, has keynoted at the World Government Summit and World Economic Forum, and was named Mos
318 - Guest: Rana Gujral, AI Author, part 1
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This week I am talking with Rana Gujral, author of the new book The AI Instinct: The Future of AI and Human Decision-Making, a deeply thoughtful, expansive, and philosophical book, like its author.
Rana is CEO of Behavioral Signals, creating systems that infer intent, emotion, and deception risk from voice, deployed in application from financia
317 - Special: Is AI In a Bubble?
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We're looking at whether AI is bubbling, popping, jumping the shark, or otherwise outstaying its welcome. I'll explore the Hype Curve, the two dimensions of the Jagged Frontier to keep in mind when tracking AI technologies along that curve, what drives backlash and why it's inevitable, and the state of expectations met or unmet across key secto
316 - Guest: Gašper Beguš, Marine Linguist, part 2
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I am talking with Gašper Beguš, leading researcher in decoding the language of whales. He is Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley and the Linguistics Lead at Project CETI, the Cetacean Translation Initiative, applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics working in the eastern Caribbean. In his Berkeley Biologica
315 - Guest: Gašper Beguš, Marine Linguist, part 1
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We're going underwater, to talk with whales. There have been some amazing breakthroughs recently in understanding the language of sperm whales, and AI plays a fascinating part in that. And even if you have no immediate intentions to go say hi to a whale, AI's part in this story has ramifications far outside the field of cetacean communication.
314 - Guest: Katja Grace, AI Impact Researcher, part 2
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I am talking with Katja Grace, founder of AI Impacts, a forecasting and risk research project focused on AI safety and governance. She has leveraged her passion and concern about AI risk into a significant role in, for instance, surveying the AI community for its evaluations of risk, which got her named to Time Magazine’s 100 most influential p
313 - Guest: Katja Grace, AI Impact Researcher, part 1
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When you stop and really consider the existential risks of AI, it becomes very apparent that we should do something. Yet so few people do. Someone who’s attempting to make up for that is Katja Grace, founder of AI Impacts, a forecasting and risk research project focused on AI safety and governance. Her surveys of the AI community’s evaluations
312 - Guest: Tomaso Poggio, Computational Neuroscientist, part 2
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I have been talking with Tomaso Poggio, Eugene McDermott professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and the Director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, and one of the founders of the field of computational neuroscience. Tomaso is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Associ
311 - Guest: Tomaso Poggio, Computational Neuroscientist, part 1
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Studying human intelligence is a matter of neuroscience, and creating software is a matter of computing, so creating artificial intelligence would be at the intersection of those fields, called computational neuroscience, and I have with me one of the founders of that field. Tomaso Poggio is the Eugene McDermott professor in the Department of B
310 - Guest: Michael Gerlich, Adaptability Thought Leader, part 2
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I'm talking with Professor Michael Gerlich . His new book, The Convenience Trap: What Happens When AI Becomes the Mind Behind Our Lives is about the threats to what I call our "cognitive autonomy" when we use AI the wrong way. And it turns out that the ways we tend to use it are mostly the wrong way, which was what Michael was talking about on
309 - Guest: Michael Gerlich, Adaptability Thought Leader, part 1
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Professor Michael Gerlich is back on the show, calling from Zurich, Switzerland. His new book, The Convenience Trap: What Happens When AI Becomes the Mind Behind Our Lives is about the threats to what I call our "cognitive autonomy" when we use AI the wrong way. And it turns out that the ways we tend to use it are mostly the wrong way, which wa
308 - Guest: Jeremy Ney, Economic Policymaker, part 2
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What is AI doing and going to do to job opportunities? What does it mean to have enough, and who has too little, and what’s fair? One answer to that is to look at inequality; how different are the financial circumstances of one set of people compared to another?
I continue talking with Jeremy Ney, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School a
307 - Guest: Jeremy Ney, Economic Policymaker, part 1
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What is AI doing and going to do to job opportunities? What does it mean to have enough, and who has too little, and what’s fair? One answer to that is to look at inequality; how different are the financial circumstances of one set of people compared to another?
Here to help us understand that is Jeremy Ney, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Busine
306 - Guest: Rob May, Intellectual Troublemaker, part 2
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I am talking with Rob May, Co-Founder and CEO of NeuroMetric AI, optimizing inference for multi-model AI systems, and returning to the show after 5 years. We're making sense of how rapid advances in AI—especially the shift from training to real-world inference—are reshaping work, business strategy, and the roles of humans. They accelerate produ
305 - Guest: Rob May, Intellectual Troublemaker, part 1
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Rapid advances in AI—especially the shift from training to real-world inference—are reshaping work, business strategy, and the roles of humans. They accelerate productivity while increasing cognitive demands and redefining where human judgment still matters. Here to help us get a handle on that and returning to the show after five years is Rob
304 - Guest: Virginia Dignum, Responsible AI Expert, part 2
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AI abounds with paradoxes. I have been talking about those with Virginia Dignum, professor of responsible artificial intelligence at Umeå (OOMEO) university, about her new book, The AI Paradox: How to Make Sense of a Complex Future, just released, with links in the show notes and transcript. Virginia is an internationally recognized expert in
303 - Guest: Virginia Dignum, Responsible AI Expert, part 1
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AI runs not just broadly across human interest, but deeply. And at every level it seems to create paradoxes. How can it be useful without power; how can it be safe with power. We want it to take over jobs, but still leave us with meaning and purpose. We deny it the possibility of becoming sentient, but how can we trust something that lacks comp
302 - Guest: Ricky Sethi, Artificial Metacognition Researcher, part 2
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Have you ever thought about your thoughts? About what or how you’re thinking? It gets real meta real fast, doesn’t it? That’s called metacognition, and humans and certain other creatures do it. But what about AI? We’re coming back to the interview with Ricky Sethi, Professor of Computer Science at Fitchburg State University, and researcher into
301 - Guest: Ricky Sethi, Artificial Metacognition Researcher, part 1
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Have you ever thought about your thoughts? About what or how you’re thinking? It gets real meta real fast, doesn’t it? That’s called metacognition, and humans and certain other creatures do it. But what about AI? Can it think about thinking? Here to help us understand this whole thing is artificial metacognition researcher Ricky Sethi. He is Pr
300 - Guest: Mark Peres, Civic Entrepreneur, part 2
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Because AI touches our lives down to our core where our emotions and subconscious reside, we need to be touched with the important lessons that our fellow humans wish to communicate about AI through vehicles like art, poetry, and, in the case of today’s guest, fiction. Mark Peres is a professor, author, and civic innovator with decades of exper
299 - Guest: Mark Peres, Civic Entrepreneur, part 1
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We shouldn’t learn the important lessons of AI through just exposition, through just descriptions, explanations, lessons, and textbooks. But because AI touches our lives down to our core where our emotions and subconscious reside, we need to be similarly touched with the important lessons that our fellow humans wish to communicate about AI thro
298 - Guest: Holly Elmore, AI Pause Advocate, part 2
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In 2023 a global movement called Pause AI started, advocating for a pause in the development of powerful AI, and on the show we have its co-founder, Holly Elmore. Their website says “We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllab
297 - Guest: Holly Elmore, AI Pause Advocate, part 1
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In 2023 a global movement called Pause AI started, advocating for a pause in the development of powerful AI, and on the show we have its co-founder, Holly Elmore. Their website says “We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllab
296 - Guest: Maya Ackerman, Creative AI Pioneer, part 2
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One of the great wounds people are experiencing around AI is in creativity. Look at the writers’ and actors’ strikes, for example. I continue talking about this very sensitive subject with Maya Ackerman, author of the new book Creative Machines: AI, Art, and Us, which tackles it head on, full of emotion, vulnerability, and poetry.
Maya is the
295 - Guest: Maya Ackerman, Creative AI Pioneer, part 1
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One of the great wounds people are experiencing around AI is in creativity. Look at the writers’ and actors’ strikes, for example. Here to talk about this very sensitive subject is Maya Ackerman, author of the new book Creative Machines: AI, Art, and US, which tackles it head on, full of emotion, vulnerability, and poetry.
Maya is the CEO and
294 - Special: The Future of Work
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The fear, uncertainty, and doubt around the future of work has reached epidemic proportions. We'll attempt to shed some light and provide some relief with data, questions, and informed speculation on the topic. How is the generation of content going to evolve, and what's awaiting us in robotics? Who will make the decisions about the future work
293 - Guests: José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, AI in education authors, part 2
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I am talking with José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson about AI in postsecondary education, because they are authors of the new book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. José is leader of the Bowen Innovation Group, consulting on innovation in higher education and was the 11th president of Goucher College. He h
292 - Guests: José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, AI in education authors, part 1
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After last week’s exploration of AI in secondary education it’s time to look at how it’s landing in the universities, and so I am talking with José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, authors of the brand new book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. José leads the Bowen Innovation Group, consulting on innovation
291 - Guest: Jeff Riley, Former Commissioner of Education, part 2
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What’s going on with getting AI education into America’s classrooms? We're finding out from Jeff Riley, former Commissioner of Education for the state of Massachusetts and founder of a new organization – Day of AI, started by MIT’s Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education institute. And they are mounting a campaign called Responsible
290 - Guest: Jeff Riley, Former Commissioner of Education, part 1
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What’s going on with getting AI education into America’s classrooms? We’re going to find out from Jeff Riley, former Commissioner of Education for the state of Massachusetts and founder of a new organization – Day of AI, started by MIT’s Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education institute. And they are mounting a campaign called Respo
289 - Special Panel: AI 2025 Retrospective/2026 Predictions
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It's that time to visit the - ghosts? - of AI past, present, and future, in our traditional retrospective/predictions episode. Forming the panel are Dan Turchin, CEO of PeopleReign, the AI platform automating HR and host of the “AI and the Future of Work” podcast. And Richard Foster-Fletcher, the Founder and Executive Chair of MKAI, the inclusi
288 - Guest: Suzanne Gildert, Quantum Entrepreneur, part 2
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What is consciousness? That’s a profound question that many would say is unanswerable. And how could you make artificial consciousness? That’s a more profound question that many would say is impossible. We are talking with Suzanne Gildert, founder of Nirvanic, a Quantum-AI research company, who is not just talking about consciousness, she’s doi
287 - Guest: Suzanne Gildert, Quantum Entrepreneur, part 1
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What is consciousness? That’s a profound question that many would say is unanswerable. And how could you make artificial consciousness? That’s a more profound question that many would say is impossible. Tackling both of those head-on is Suzanne Gildert, founder of Nirvanic, a Quantum-AI research company. She’s not just talking about consciousne
286 - Guest: Craig Kaplan, Artificial Superintelligence Expert, part 2
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What if artificial superintelligence - ASI - could be made both more safe and more profitable? I'm talking with Craig Kaplan, who has the website superintelligence.com, about his concept of "democratic AI." Craig is CEO and founder of iQ Company, focused on AGI and ASI. He also founded and ran PredictWallStreet, a financial services firm which
285 - Guest: Craig Kaplan, Artificial Superintelligence Expert, part 1
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What if artificial superintelligence - ASI - could be made both more safe and more profitable? Returning to the show after a year is Craig Kaplan, talking about how "democratic AI" can do that. Craig, who has the website superintelligence.com, is CEO and founder of iQ Company, focused on AGI and ASI. He also founded and ran PredictWallStreet, a
284 - Guests: Bruce Schneier & Nathan Sanders, AI in Democracy authors, part 2
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How should AI change democracy? That’s the topic of Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship, and I am continuing my talk with its authors. Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and the bestselling author of fourteen books, including Data and Goliath and A Hacker’s Mind.
283 - Guests: Bruce Schneier & Nathan Sanders, AI in Democracy authors, part 1
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How should AI change democracy? That’s the topic of Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship, and I am talking today with its authors. Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and the bestselling author of fourteen books, including Data and Goliath and A Hacker’s Mind. He is
282 - Guest: Gerry White, Dean of Academic Technology, part 2
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What's really going on in classrooms with AI right now? I'm talking with Gerry White, a teacher, technologist, writer, and lifelong learner who has spent two decades at the forefront of education and technology integration. Gerry is the Dean of Academic Technology at ECPI University in Virginia and the founder of MyTutorPlus, an AI-powered tuto
281 - Guest: Gerry White, Dean of Academic Technology, part 1
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We're continuing to focus on AI in education because it's so pivotal to the future of the human race. What's really going on in classrooms with AI right now? We are learning that from Gerry White, a teacher, technologist, writer, and lifelong learner who has spent two decades at the forefront of education and technology integration. Gerry is th
280 - Guest: Alyson King, Researcher in Academic Integrity, part 2
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Students using AI to cheat on homework - or being inaccurately flagged as cheating - falls under the heading of 'academic integrity,' so I am talking with Alyson King, Professor in Political Science at Ontario Tech University in Canada, and editor of the new book, “Artificial Intelligence, Pedagogy and Academic Integrity,” containing 12 contrib
279 - Guest: Alyson King, Researcher in Academic Integrity, part 1
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Students using AI to cheat on homework - or being inaccurately flagged as cheating - falls under the heading of 'academic integrity,' so I am talking with Alyson King, Professor in Political Science at Ontario Tech University in Canada, and editor of the new book, “Artificial Intelligence, Pedagogy and Academic Integrity,” containing 12 contrib
278 - Guest: Becky Keene, AI in Education Author
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We are again focusing on AI in education, because that is really where the rubber meets the road for nearly every issue in AI and where we need to get it right, because that’s where we’re training the generation that will save the world. You could be very pessimistic about that, but you can also be very optimistic about that, and one person who
277 - Guest: Michael Gerlich, Adaptability Thought Leader, part 2
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As we use AI more and more as a critical assistant, what might that be doing to our critical thinking? Professor Michael Gerlich has published his research in the paper “AI Tools In Society: Impacts On Cognitive Offloading And The Future Of Critical Thinking” in the journal Societies. He showed that younger participants “exhibited higher depend
276 - Guest: Michael Gerlich, Adaptability Thought Leader, part 1
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As we use AI more and more as a critical assistant, what might that be doing to our critical thinking? Professor Michael Gerlich has published his research in the paper “AI Tools In Society: Impacts On Cognitive Offloading And The Future Of Critical Thinking” in the journal Societies. He showed that younger participants “exhibited higher depend
275 - Guest: Carl Benedikt Frey, Professor of AI and Work, part 2
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"The book seems to be more timely than originally anticipated." I'm talking with Carl Benedikt Frey about his new book, How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations, and its exploration of the political and economic effects of policies like tariffs and university defunding comes at a very critical time. AI is projec
274 - Guest: Carl Benedikt Frey, Professor of AI and Work, part 1
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"The book seems to be more timely than originally anticipated." I'm talking with Carl Benedikt Frey about his new book, How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations, and its exploration of the political and economic effects of policies like tariffs and university defunding comes at a very critical time. AI is projec
273 - Guest: Megan Peters, Computational Cognitive Scientist, part 2
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I'm talking with Megan Peters, who researches thinking about thinking, or metacognition. She is an Associate Professor in the UC Irvine Department of Cognitive Sciences, studying how the brain represents and uses uncertainty, focusing on how these abilities support metacognitive evaluations of the quality of our decisions. She’s a Fellow
272 - Guest: Megan Peters, Computational Cognitive Scientist, part 1
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Have you ever thought about thinking? That’s called metacognition, and Megan Peters thinks about that, a lot. She is an Associate Professor in the UC Irvine Department of Cognitive Sciences, researching how the brain represents and uses uncertainty, focusing on how these abilities support metacognitive evaluations of the quality of our decision
271 - Guest: Christof Koch, Cognitive Scientist, part 2
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I am talking with neuroscientist Christof Koch, and as he says, "How is it that we, a piece of furniture of the universe like a rock or a star or a tree, can love or hate or see or hear?" What, in other words, makes us conscious, and what does that mean? He is known for his work exploring the substrate of consciousness in humans, animals, and m
270 - Guest: Christof Koch, Cognitive Scientist, part 1
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As my guest today says, "How is it that we, a piece of furniture of the universe like a rock or a star or a tree, can love or hate or see or hear?" What, in other words, makes us conscious, and what does that mean? He is the cognitive scientist Christof Koch, known for his work exploring the substrate of consciousness in humans, animals, and ma
269 - Guest: De Kai, Pioneer of Google Translate, part 2
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"We are in the privileged - or unfortunate - situation of being the last generation of humans to be parenting AIs. All the future generations of AIs are going to be parented mainly by AIs. And so even more than with our human children and grandchildren, we have one shot at raising this next generation correctly."
I am talking with De Kai, a pio
268 - Guest: De Kai, Pioneer of Google Translate, part 1
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As AI becomes more and more powerful, what is our responsibility, collectively? I am joined by De Kai, a pioneering professor of AI who built the web’s first global online language translator that spawned Google Translate and Microsoft Bing Translator. And he has answered those questions with his new book, Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Pare
267 - Joint Episode with the London Futurists Podcast
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Welcome to a joint episode with the London Futurists podcast, hosted by David Wood and Calum Chace, who have both been individual guests on this show in the past.
David is chair of the London Futurists and named by T3 as one of the 100 most influential people in technology. He is author of the books, “The Singularity Principles: Anticipating a
266 - Guest: Kate Hayles, Literary and Technological Analyst, part 2
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It’s more important than ever to define just what we mean by words like intelligence, consciousness, and thinking. Here to help us is Kate Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA and the James B. Duke Professor Emerita from Duke University. Her research focuses on the relations of literature, science and technology, and her books inclu
265 - Guest: Kate Hayles, Literary and Technological Analyst, part 1
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It’s more important than ever to define just what we mean by words like intelligence, consciousness, and thinking. Here to help us is Kate Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the relations of literature, science and technology, and a new theory of mind—what she calls a
264 - Guest: Dagan Shani, Filmmaker, part 2
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We get at this AI thing from many different angles: it changes us in so many ways that we're not going to understand it through just a technical discussion. So today we look at what it means to be human in the AI age through the eyes of Dagan Shani, an independent filmmaker who has focused on the risks associated with AI through movies that evo
263 - Guest: Dagan Shani, Filmmaker, part 1
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We get at this AI thing from many different angles: it changes us in so many ways that we're not going to understand it through just a technical discussion. So today we look at what it means to be human in the AI age through the eyes of Dagan Shani, an independent filmmaker who has focused on the risks associated with AI through movies that evo
262 - Guests: Ja-Nae Duane and Steve Fisher, Futurists, part 2
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How do you deal personally, and organizationally, with exponential change? That’s the subject of a new book, Super Shifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, And Work In The Age Of Intelligence, and both of its authors are here. Dr. Ja-Naé Duane is a behavioral scientist who has worked with companies such as PWC, Saudi Aramco, AIG, and Deloitte.
261 - Guests: Ja-Nae Duane and Steve Fisher, Futurists, part 1
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How do you deal personally, and organizationally, with exponential change? That’s the subject of a new book, Super Shifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, And Work In The Age Of Intelligence, and both of its authors are here. Dr. Ja-Naé Duane is a behavioral scientist who has worked with companies such as PWC, Saudi Aramco, AIG, and Deloitte.
260 - Guest: Nada Sanders, Global Business Futurist, part 2
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What does the ideal integration of humans and technology look like in business in the future? Nada Sanders calls that a “Humachine.” She is a thought leader and expert in forecasting and human-technology integration, has an MBA and a PhD in supply chain management, and is an expert in digital transformation. She is author of seven books, includ
259 - Guest: Nada Sanders, Global Business Futurist, part 1
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What does the ideal integration of humans and technology look like in business in the future? Nada Sanders calls that a “Humachine.” She is a thought leader and expert in forecasting and human-technology integration, has an MBA and a PhD in supply chain management, and is an expert in digital transformation. She is author of seven books, includ
258 - Guests: Emily Bender & Alex Hanna, Authors, part 2
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I am talking with Drs. Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, authors of the upcoming book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want, and also co-hosts of the live podcast Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000.
Emily is well known for coining the term “stochastic parrots” in a 2021 paper as a label for generative AI. She is a linguis
257 - Guests: Emily Bender & Alex Hanna, Authors, part 1
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When people take a unipolar position that AI is going to be wonderful, or terrible, or inconsequential, they end up painting themselves into a corner where that’s the only story they can allow themselves to express, and that obscures the truth. So for us to do our due diligence in exploring the dimensions of AI, today I am talking with Drs. Emi
256 - Guest: Diane Gutiw, AI Research Center Lead, part 2
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How to manage the integration of AI at scale into the enterprise is the territory of today's guest, Diane Gutiw, Vice President and leader of the AI research center at the global business consultancy CGI. She holds a PhD in Medical Information Technology Management and has led collaborative strategy design and implementation planning for advanc
255 - Guest: Diane Gutiw, AI Research Center Lead, part 1
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How to manage the integration of AI at scale into the enterprise is the territory of today's guest, Diane Gutiw, Vice President and leader of the AI research center at the global business consultancy CGI. She holds a PhD in Medical Information Technology Management and has led collaborative strategy design and implementation planning for advanc
254 - Guest: Seth Baum, Global Catastrophic Risks Institute, part 2
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We're talking about catastrophic risks, something that can be depressing for people who haven’t confronted these things before, and so I have had to be careful in talking about those with most audiences. Yet the paradox is that the more you do look at those risks, the more that effect fades, and that’s a good thing, because my guest today is so
253 - Guest: Seth Baum, Global Catastrophic Risks Institute, part 1
This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .
We're talking about catastrophic risks, something that can be depressing for people who haven’t confronted these things before, and so I have had to be careful in talking about those with most audiences. Yet the paradox is that the more you do look at those risks, the more that effect fades, and that’s a good thing, because my guest today is so
252 - Special: AI in Customer Service
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AI will transform customer service. Large language models will provide superior customer interaction, whether by web or by telephone. They’ll answer instantly, always be polite and full of energy, talk with the customer in every known language, make all the information that the customer wants out of the company personalized and accessible to th
251 - Special: AI's Existential Threat and Hope: Deconstructing TEDx
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What if… aliens came to visit the Earth? And what does that have to do with AI? I’ve deconstructed two of my TEDx talks on this show, but before both of those I did one in 2017, and here I take that one apart.
Why didn’t I do this before? It seemed a bit… out there. Too sensationalist. Making claims that were too extravagant.
But when I was lo
250 - Special: Military Use of AI
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In this special episode we are focused on the military use of AI, and making it even more special, we have not one guest but nine:
Peter Asaro, co-founder and co-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control;
Stuart Russell, Computer Science professor at UC Berkeley, renowned co-author of the leading text on AI, and influential A
249 - Guest: Adam Unikowsky, Attorney
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The use of generative AI in legal practice has been in the news since lawyers filed briefs written by AI that contained completely fictional citations. But AI has moved past those faux pas to be of real benefit, used by some judges in writing their decisions. Here with his finger on that pulse is Adam Unikowsky, partner in the Appellate & S
248 - Guest: Tim O'Reilly, Entrepreneur of Ideas, part 2
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My guest has fundamentally reshaped the landscape of digital technology. Your experience of the Internet owes a large part of its identity to Tim O’Reilly, the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media, the company that has been providing the picks and shovels of learning to the Silicon Valley gold rush for the past thirty-five years, a plat
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