How Data Helps Companies Honor Their Climate Goals
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Turning a corporate climate pledge into reality is a complex endeavor. Watershed, a software startup...
The Future of Meat
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Livestock is responsible for 15 percent of global greenhouse emissions. Could meat grown in labs off...
Mapping AI’s Societal Impact
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
AI is not just code and algorithms. It’s an industry built on a global network of resource extract...
Making Quantum Computers a Commercial Reality
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
IonQ is the first company solely focused on quantum computing to go public, with its quantum compute...
Bitcoin and the Future of Decentralized Finance
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the potential an...
The Evolution of Teamwork (with Atlassian CEO Scott Farquhar)
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Atlassian, the enterprise software innovator, is helping to drive disruption across the world of wor...
The Architects of AI
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cade Metz, technology correspondent at The New York Times, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss his new book...
Universities and the Innovation Landscape
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are universities for? Are they an elite pipeline for elite jobs, or can they meet the needs of ...
Engineering a Driverless Future
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Urmson, co-founder and CEO of the self-driving technology startup Aurora, joins Azeem Azhar to...
Fixing the Social Media Crisis
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Social networks polarize communities and spread misinformation. Professor Sinan Aral, director of MI...
Investing in Deep Tech for an Abundant Future
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Could deep tech companies bring about an age of abundance? Matt Ocko, co-founder and managing partne...
From Insurance Giant to Tech Platform: The Story of Ping An
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From an insurance giant to an incubator of cutting-edge tech companies, Ping An’s evolution is imp...
Building A Quantum Computer with Light
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Quantum computing is to conventional computing what a warp drive is to a bicycle,” says Jeremy ...
Bringing DARPA’s Innovation to Health
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Regina Dugan, CEO of new biomedical non-profit Wellcome Leap and former director of the Defense Adva...
Big Tech and a Decade of Antitrust with Cory Doctorow
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cory Doctorow, award-winning author, technologist, and founder, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the pow...
Learning from 2020: Azeem’s Takeaways
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his reflection on this tumultuous year, Azeem Azhar finds hope in our reaction to the pandemic. T...
Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change with Cory Doctorow
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cory Doctorow, award winning author, technologist, and founder, joins Azeem Azhar to examine how the...
Making Venture Capital Work for Entrepreneurs
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leila Rastegar Zegna, co-founder and general partner of Kindred Capital, joins Azeem Azhar for a dee...
IKEA: Making a $40 Billion Company Climate Positive
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
IKEA generates 0.1 percent of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. Can this $40 billion mu...
China’s Technology Transformation with Kai-Fu Lee
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“China is no longer a copycat. It’s an innovator,” says Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Sinovation Ventures...
How AI and Genomics Are Reshaping Farming
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the world population grows and climate change intensifies, how can we transform the food supply c...
Understanding the Enduring Consequences of Covid-19
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Azeem Azhar speaks with Yale Professor of Social and Natural Science, Internal Medicine & Biomedical...
Should We End the Data Economy?
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Google and Facebook became multibillion-dollar juggernauts by stockpiling data and using it to sell ...
Facebook’s Tech Chief: How We Built It and Where We’re Going
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer joined the company in 2008, it was about ...
DeepMind’s Journey from Games to Fundamental Science
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, dreams of using AI to solve fundamental problems in ...
How Taiwan is Using Technology to Foster Democracy (with Digital Minister Audrey Tang)
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Democracy is a technology. Like any […] technology, it gets better when more people strive to i...
How GPT-3 Is Shaping Our AI Future
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI stunned the world with the release of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), the wor...
Season 4 Finale: Azeem’s Favorite Episodes and Trends to Watch
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we wrap up the season and head off to a short summer break, Azeem Azhar reflects on what he learn...
Reimagining Capitalism for a Broken World
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
More than half of the world’s population believe capitalism is doing more harm than good. But is i...
Engineering Biology: The Next Frontier
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The increasing capabilities of computing have changed biology from a realm dominated by scientific d...
Rethinking the Innovation Ecosystem
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Starting a company with a stranger is not the traditional path for many entrepreneurs, but this is o...
Using AI to Decentralize Organizations
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Operating a company with no managers, where everyone chooses their work, salary, and holiday entitle...
Empowering Workers in the Digital Future
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Companies increasingly use digital systems to hire, fire, and monitor their employees. But who is ke...
Building Better Cities After Covid-19
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cities drive prosperity. But during the Covid-19 pandemic, they also have become crucibles of diseas...
Fei-Fei Li’s Mission to Transform Healthcare AI
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After ImageNet transformed AI vision, superstar Stanford computer science professor Fei-Fei Li has t...
How Nasdaq is Growing the World’s Digital Marketplace
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nasdaq has evolved from being the world’s first digital marketplace to a global technology company...
The Digital Future of the Supply Chain
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Global supply chains are efficient, but fragile. How can we make them more robust, flexible, and sus...
Lessons for an Aging World
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time in history, there are more people on the planet over 65 years old, than under fiv...
The New Science of Aging
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We have long assumed aging is inevitable, but is it? Professor David Sinclair, founder of the Sincla...
Navigating Covid-19 in a Digital Republic (with President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid)
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Estonia, the only public service not available online is marriage. Dubbed the “digital republic...
The Drive to Decarbonize
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Clean energy is now cheaper than coal, and its uptake is accelerating. But can we get to zero emissi...
Inside Alphabet’s X: Nurturing Radical Creativity
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
X, Alphabet Inc.’s “moonshot factory,” dares to solve big problems with breakthrough technolog...
The Next Trillion-Dollar Market
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Biotech is gathering pace: AI systems are simulating novel materials, new genomic technologies are e...
Technology Companies and the New Recession
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The world is facing an economic crisis never seen before, says equity analyst Pierre Ferragu. Consum...
Science Fights the Coronavirus
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The exponential growth of COVID-19 is threatening to bring down the world economy. To understand the...
The Redecentralized Web
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Data monopolies and abuses of privacy are only some of the flaws of Web 2.0. Muneeb Ali, co-founder ...
Welfare in the Exponential Age
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Existing social institutions are not adequate to meet the challenges of the exponential age. Social ...
How Humans Judge Machines
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“People judge humans by their intentions, and machines by the outcome,” says physicist and autho...
Can Airtable Democratize Software Development?
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Airtable, valued at $1.1 billion, is carving out a new product category that could compete with clou...
Geopolitics, Technology, and Risk
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Some would argue that the world is more volatile today than it was during the Cold War, and technolo...
Surviving a Crisis During the Techlash
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Crisis management is not only about cleaning up after a disaster, but also about establishing a heal...
Leading a Technology Giant During the Techlash
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, argues for multilateral cooperation across borders and sectors ...
Superintelligence Already Rules the World
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial decision-making machines have been with us for hundreds of years. We call them corporatio...
Building Unicorns in Europe
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Seedcamp has backed close to 400 European startups at the seed stage. The fund’s co-founder and ma...
The State of Nanotechnology
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nanotechnology has long been hailed as a means of eradicating diseases and delivering other healthca...
Cybersecurity in the Age of AI
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
AI is reshaping the landscape of cyber defense. As new security fissures open up, threat analysts de...
Growth and the Energy Transition with Vaclav Smil
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time in history, we have to tackle a truly global problem: climate breakdown. Energy t...
AI, Accountability, and Power
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In November 2018 mass protests by Google workers drew attention to deep problems with bias and discr...
Technology and the New World of Work
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The nature of work is undergoing tremendous changes, influenced by aging populations, the digital re...
How Free-Market Economists Got It Wrong
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The late 1960s saw a revolution in public policy, as economists began to play an important role in s...
Beyond Deep Learning with Gary Marcus
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Marcus is well known as a deep learning critic. A neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and the author ...
AI and the Future of Warfare
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our rapidly changing world, peace is increasingly fragile. The only way to ensure we keep it and ...
Bubbles, Golden Ages, and Tech Revolutions
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do we exploit the technological revolution for green growth and global development? Celebrated e...
Creating an AI-First Business with Andrew Ng
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial General Intelligence won’t be with us for at least another 100 years, but former Baidu ...
Tony Blair: Governing in the Age of AI
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If the UK’s former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was in the government today, he says that he would ...
Introducing Season 4
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the new season of the Exponential View podcast, Azeem Azhar speaks to an eclectic group of leader...
Engineering Biology
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering biology holds the key to improving the lives of people across the world. It promises sol...
Governance in the Age of AI
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence is a powerful technology with capabilities that are open to use by state and...
Disrupting the Insurance Industry with AI
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“At a fundamental level, insurance is a social good. It’s about a community of people pooling th...
Beneficial Artificial Intelligence
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, computer scientist and AI pioneer, Stuart Russell, became the first signatory of an open le...
Surveillance Capitalism
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Shoshana Zuboff coined the term “surveillance capitalism” to describe the new way companies clai...
AI’s Near Future
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For Jürgen Schmidhuber, a recognized pioneer in AI, artificial intelligence is much more than anoth...
The Autonomous Economy
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the founders of complexity economics, W. Brian Arthur, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how artif...
Disrupting Finance
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence is unlocking new value in the banking and finance industry, but incumbents a...
Embedding AI in Business
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
AI is the fastest-growing industry that Accenture’s CTIO Paul Daugherty has ever experienced. He j...
The Truth About Autonomy
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke University and one of the first female fighter pilot...
AI and the Genetic Revolution
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michigan State University senior vice president Stephen Hsu, a theoretical physicist and the founder...
When AI Meets Medicine
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With healthcare under extreme commercial and political pressure, the doctor-patient relationship is ...
The Innovation Economy
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We haven’t really understood the power of the state,” argues economist Mariana Mazzucato, war...
Creating the Data Economy
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our society has become increasingly reliant on data, but its value is not accessible to all. Of the ...
Designing Responsible AI
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Intelligence is central to everything humans do, and artificial intelligence should be no excepti...
Investing in Disruptive Innovation
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1800’s, three innovation platforms shaped the world as we know it today: the telephone...
Technology Diffusion and the Rise of Asia
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Parag Khanna is a leading international relations expert and the author of The Future Is Asian: Comm...
Overcoming the Epistemic Crisis
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish author and human rights activist. She has published ...
Regulating the Cyberspace
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Marietje Schaake is a Dutch politician and member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherla...
Making Sense of the Data-Rich World with Graph Databases
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Emil Eifrem is the CEO and cofounder of Neo4j, the graph database platform powering some of the larg...
The State of Artificial Intelligence
26 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Clark serves as the policy director at OpenAI. He has contributed to the development of the AI ...
Quantified Self, Data Ownership, and the Sociological Approach to Technology
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Neff is a senior research fellow and associate professor at the University of Oxford. She studi...
Renewable Energy, Climate Change, and Technology
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Liebreich is a leading global expert on clean energy and transportation, smart infrastructur...
Diplomacy in the Tech Age
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Casper Klynge is the world’s first tech ambassador, with a global mandate and staff in Copenhagen,...
Doughnut Economics, Rethinking Economics for the 21st Century
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Raworth is a senior visiting research associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change I...
Space Innovation and Fixing the Earth
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anousheh Ansari is the world’s first female private space explorer and the first Iranian astronaut...
The Future of Public Service and Governance
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Witter is an award-winning executive, a serial entrepreneur, and the cofounder and executive ch...
The Future of Work and Democracy in the Information Age
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Taylor is the chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts, a UK organization committed to f...
UBI, Automation, and Society in the U.S.
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Azeem Azhar speaks with Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur and author who is running for president in the ...
The Challenging Political Economy of Silicon Valley
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Azeem speaks with Reid Hoffman, “the sage of Silicon Valley.” Reid is an internet entrepreneur,...
Scaling Innovation
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Azeem Azhar speaks with entrepreneur and investor Elad Gil about Silicon Valley, scaling companies f...
AI, Warfare, and Global Security
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Azeem Azhar speaks with Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo, deputy director of the Digital Ethics Lab at the Ox...
Entrepreneurs, the Market, and the State
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Azeem Azhar speaks with venture capitalist Bill Janeway about the three-player game between the miss...
China, an AI Superpower
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Azeem Azhar speaks with Kai-Fu Lee, a VC investor, technology executive, and one of the most promine...