Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Episodes
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 Index, an AI forecasting and progress initiative t...
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 studies innovation, the digital transformation of indus...
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 infrastructure, technology, climate finance, and sustainable de...
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, Silicon Valley, and Beijing. His appointment as t...
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 Institute, where she teaches environmental change a...
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 in space. She is the CEO of XPrize Foundation, an...
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 chairman of Apolitical, a network that helps public ...
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 finding practical solutions to societal problems. B...
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 2020 U.S. election. At the heart of Andrew’s pla...
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, executive, and investor best known as the cofound...
Scaling Innovation
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Azeem Azhar speaks with entrepreneur and investor Elad Gil about Silicon Valley, scaling companies from 10 to 10,000 employees, the state of blockchai...
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 Oxford Internet Institute. Dr. Taddeo is a philosoph...
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 mission-driven state, financial speculators, and marke...
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 prominent figures in the Chinese internet sector and AI. ...
Season 2 Intro: When Technology Meets Political Future
22 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Azeem Azhar’s Exponential View podcast is back, exploring the intersection of political economy and exponential technologies. Hosted by Simplecast, ...
Hacking Democracy
03 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A recording of an Exponential View salon held in London in May 2017. “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the ave...
The State of Machine Learning
26 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With more than 40% market share in mobile games, 1 billion monthly active users, and 2.6 billion unique devices, the game development platform Unity h...
Code as the Key Driver of Human Development
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For the tech community, code has an almost exclusively uniform meaning: a set of instructions, until recently written only by humans, that specify any...
Universal Basic Income
05 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Santens is a writer and an advocate for universal basic income. His articles have been featured in TechCrunch, the Boston Globe, and Politico, a...
How Music Could Take the Place of Drugs
29 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Marko Ahtisaari is the CEO and cofounder of The Sync Project, a collaborative venture of scientists, musicians, technologists, and patients, working t...
AI, Automation, and the Economy
04 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs. Jeff is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on economic development; he advises the ...
Intimacy with Robots
25 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Devlin, computer scientist and robot-sex expert, on robot intimacy and a new age of sex, relationships, and social life. Hosted by Simplecast, an...
Homo Deus
17 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation between Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Yuval Harari and Azeem Azhar. They cover the compelling insights in his new book, Homo...
The Future of Longevity
08 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Philosopher and investor Dr. Shamil Chandaria investigates how we might live much longer lives and how we can make them more meaningful. He dives into...
A Survey of Technology
20 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A wide-ranging conversation on technology with Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review. He touches on gene editing, Moore’s Law, arti...
The Wealth of Humans
15 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A powerfully prophetic discussion about the meaning of work in the 21st century as technology transforms all areas of the global economy. Ryan Avent, ...