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Building Human-Centered AI

08 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Best-known as the creator of ImageNet, we meet the Godmother of AI, Dr. Fei-Fei Li In the latest installment of our oral history project. She's a Chin...

Aging in Place with AI

01 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Each day more than 11,000 people in the US turn 65 years old. It adds up to more than 4,000,000 people a year, and the labor force that serves them is...

What Does It Mean if AI Agents Turn Marxist?

25 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

 Lately, it feels like you can’t go more than a few minutes without hearing someone talk about AI agents, and there’s a very good reason for that...

How to Build a Moonshot Factory

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Astro Teller, Alphabet’s Captain of Moonshots, joins us for a conversation about the importance of failure, workplace culture in a moonshot factory,...

Helping AI Agents Network Securely

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How to handle cybersecurity challenges posed by AI agents is about the hottest security topic going at the moment. If you’re wondering why that is, ...

What it Means to Work Alongside AI Agents

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How much do we know about the way organizations are adopting agentic AI, and what it means for the human employees working alongside?  Our friends at...

Finding and Financing Critical Minerals

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Critical minerals are in just about every device you can think of, and there’s a global race underway to find and finance the production of these ma...

AI, Risk, and the Future of Compliance

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As regulatory expectations rise, and financial crime grows more complex, risk management is shifting from static checks to continuous intelligence. Fr...

Ready for Fish-Free Fish?

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What would you say if someone offered you a taste of a salmon filet that doesn’t contain fish?The protein content, carbs, and even the omega 3s are ...

Exploring Compute’s Next Frontier

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s not just AI software that’s rapidly shifting. One could argue that the very map of high performance computing is being redrawn, from OpenAI i...

Putting AI Agents to Work in a High-Stakes Environment

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Figuring out what it takes to make agentic AI work in a high-stakes, real-world environment is front and center these days, because for the most part,...

Hired by an Algorithm

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How do you feel about the use of artificial intelligence in the hiring process? Whether it sounds like a good way to remove human bias, a bad idea tha...

Tech Trends to Watch in 2026

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we bring you an episode of another podcast anchored by our host, Jennifer Strong, called The Next Innovation. In it, we sit down with other...

Commercializing Our Space Age Future

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A live conversation about the state of the space industry with serial space entrepreneur Kam Ghaffarian, a co-founder of Axiom Space, Intuitive Machin...

Companion Robots for Older Adults

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We meet a founder questioning the wisdom of the Turing Test as he works to address the loneliness epidemic among the elderly, in the latest installmen...

Uncovering How Biology Works

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The application of artificial intelligence to help discover new medicines could become one of the more transformative ways we use this tech in the nea...

The Future of Voting Is on Your Phone

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if voting in a primary could be as simple as reaching for your phone? This week, Bradley Tusk's TED talk about this topic was named one of the te...

The Psychology and Liability of Chatbots

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when machines start telling us what we want to hear—and when users start depending on them for emotional connection? Join us for a live...

The Future of AI is Quantitative

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We join the MIT community in New York for an event focused on AI, innovation, and the evolving role of tech in society. SandboxAQ is a Google spinout...

Without Trust, Innovation Stalls

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for a deep dive on the relationship between trust and artificial intelligence as we unpack a flash poll from Edelman, the world's largest PR f...

The Economics of Quantum Innovation

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do we move quantum computing from scientific milestone to measurable business value? It’s not an easy question to answer. When I first started...

How to Build AI for the Physical World

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For as far as we’ve come with AI and robotics, there’s still a huge gap when it comes to combining the two. AI excels in the digital space, and in...

Encore: How to Build a Moonshot Factory

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Astro Teller, Alphabet’s Captain of Moonshots, joins us for a conversation about the importance of failure, workplace culture in a moonshot factory,...

Shaping the Future of Intelligence

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AMD provides high-performance computing power that runs everything from your gaming console and personal laptop, to the giant supercomputers and AI sy...

Reclaiming the Digital Public Square

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We explore how one group is using AI to help people talk, listen and understand in large groups, in hopes of counteracting forces that have undermined...

Meet the CIA's Former Digital Chief

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do you think it would be like to lead AI efforts and the overall digital transformation of the CIA? This week, we find out as we dive into a worl...

Building AI’s Roadmaps

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How we build products, why we build them, and what we think they’re for have always changed, but these days developers and engineers who love things...

AI Agents = Intelligence Taking Action on Its Own

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Agentic AI is one of the hottest topics going in tech circles, but if pinning down exactly what we’re talking about feels a bit like a moving target...

These Robots Might Solve Space's Labor Problem

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What’s an astronaut’s time worth? Answering that question is not a perfect science, but at more than $100,000 an hour (not counting salary - that'...

How Tech Could Help Fix Rural Healthcare

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Might a lack of legacy healthcare tech infrastructure in rural communities offer an advantage over mature markets? A  founder makes the case in the l...

Building the Future of AI Infrastructure

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You've likely heard that artificial intelligence is gobbling up electricity and drinking water, and causing a global race to build more energy capacit...

Architect of the EU AI Act Expresses Concerns

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

EU AI Act architect and lead author Gabriele Mazzini shares his experience drafting the law. He also talks about his concerns with implementation and ...

What Happened at Builder.AI

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the world's hottest AI startups, Builder.AI, imploded earlier this year. We dig into what actually went down at the company and what journalist...

The Alignment Problem

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Despite our best efforts, sometimes what we say we want isn’t precisely what we mean. Nowhere is that felt more acutely than when we’re giving ins...

How to Build a Cybernetic Lawyer

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In all the noise about AI agents it’s easy to miss a fundamental change that’s taking place. For these agents to be effective, people have to feel...

Ready for Fish-Free Fish?

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What would you say if someone offered you a taste of a salmon filet that doesn’t contain fish?  The protein content, carbs, and even the omega 3s a...

From Text Prompt to 3D Worlds

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We explore how generative AI is revolutionizing game development at Roblox, in the latest installment of our oral history project.We Meet:  Kiran Bha...

The Race to Superintelligence

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the final installment of a special series documenting the race to build superintelligent AI systems. The Race to Superintelligence is a deep d...

Making Sense of Supply Chains and Tariffs

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The U.S. trade war is expected to add billions of dollars to things like building AI data centers, and for companies trying to figure out and manage t...

Securing AI’s Future

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Developing and scaling AI systems brings new security challenges, and companies are scrambling to figure out just how to handle some of the more press...

AI Agents Get to Work

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if instead of software coaching you on how to use it–what buttons to push and what file menus to open–the software could just use itself, onc...

The Race to Superintelligence

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is part two of a special series documenting the race to build superintelligent AI systems.The Race to Superintelligence is a deep dive into the r...

The Future of AI is Quantitative

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We join the MIT community in New York for an event focused on AI, innovation, and the evolving role of tech in society. SandboxAQ is a Google spinout...

Building a Decentralized Drone Imaging Network

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most geospatial data is gathered by satellites and cameras attached to planes, but a new decentralized network is helping amateur drone pilots capture...

Giving Shape to AI

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What might the future of AI look like? Robert Brunner is responsible for some of the most iconic industrial designs of this century, and Matt Biilman...

The Race to Superintelligence

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Race to Superintelligence is a deep dive into the rapidly expanding world of artificial intelligence. Join us as we explore the groundbreaking, my...

Uncovering How Biology Works

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The application of artificial intelligence to help discover new medicines could become one of the more transformative ways we use this tech in the nea...

Digital Citizens or Digital Subjects?

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Frank McCourt is an American executive and philanthropist. He’s also the author of a new book about the internet, called Our Biggest Fight: Reclaimi...

Who's Human Online?

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you're on a dating app or playing a game, how do you know if you're interacting with another human? We meet someone working on a possible solu...

Building Trust in Online Reviews

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Browsing online reviews when you’re shopping for a new product or service can be incredibly helpful, but only if they’re real. We Meet: Trustpilo...

How to Build a Moonshot Factory

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Astro Teller, Alphabet’s Captain of Moonshots, joins us for a conversation about the importance of failure, workplace culture in a moonshot factory,...

The Future of Voting Is on Your Phone

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if voting in a primary could be as simple as reaching for your phone? We explore mobile voting in the latest installment of our oral history proj...

Rethinking AI’s Chip

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meet the CEO of Cerebras Systems in the latest installment of our oral history project. We Meet: Cerebras CEO Andrew FeldmanCredits:This episode of ...

Discovering Drugs with AI

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in the way new drugs are discovered. It’s radically changing how this process work...

Meet MAMA, the Mothers Fighting Against Media Addiction

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We know that kids spending time on social media are more likely to experience depression and anxiety. Less clear, and far more contentious, is the rol...

Get Ready for AI Colleagues

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anyone who’s had a job, knows what it means to have co-workers, but what happens when your colleague is an AI agent? As AI enters the workforce, we ...

Companion Robots for Older Adults

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We meet a founder questioning the wisdom of the Turing Test as he works to address the loneliness epidemic among the elderly, in the latest installmen...

SpaceTech is Booming

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A live conversation about the state of the space economy with the first Arab woman to fly to space and with a leading space investor. This episode was...

Helping AI Agents Spend Your Money

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the not too distant future we might use AI agents for all sorts of things, though for now payments remain an obstacle because they can’t spend mo...

The Alignment Problem

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Despite our best efforts, sometimes what we say we want isn’t precisely what we mean. Nowhere is that felt more acutely than when we’re giving ins...

Optimizing the Farm

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We chat with Organic Valley in the latest installment of our oral history project.We Meet: Joshua Krzych, interim CIO at Organic ValleyCredits:This e...

Video Calls in 3D - Hold the Glasses

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this encore episode, we tour Google's Project Starline at the 2024 TED Conference in Vancouver.We Meet:Andrew Nartker from Google’s Project Starl...

The Rise of DeepSeek

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Certain things about the development of artificial intelligence were generally taken as fact, until Silicon Valley woke up to the rise of a small Chin...

Securing Critical Infrastructure

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A look at industrial cybersecurity, and why it matters, in the latest installment of our oral history project.We Meet: Ian Bramson, Vice President of...

A List of What to Watch in 2025

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We catch up with cognitive scientist Gary Marcus on his list of predictions for what to watch in AI this year, and beyond.We Meet: Author & Cogni...

Commercializing Our Space Age Future

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A live conversation about the state of the space industry with serial space entrepreneur Kam Ghaffarian, a co-founder of Axiom Space, Intuitive Machin...

Journey to Quantum Advantage

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’re taking a break for the holidays but given the recent quantum news with the unveiling of Google’s Willow, we think it’s a great time to rev...

CLICK HERE: The guy who took down North Korea’s Internet

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When North Korea hacked Alejandro Caceres, he expected the U.S. government to rush to his defense. When they just shrugged, he took matters into his o...

Has AI Broken the Media?

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A question I was asked to explore at this year’s Web Summit, Europe’s largest tech conference, is whether AI has broken the media.  We Meet: Ne...

Automating Appeals

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Appealing a decision by a health insurance provider not to cover a treatment can be a complicated and time consuming process. But what if it didn’t ...

Building Public AI

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We take for granted access to certain services even when the commercial value and the societal value don’t align - like the ability to mail a letter...

Geography is Everything

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From deciding where to build a new business, airport or fire station, to understanding the potential impact of decisions regarding conservation or gov...

(AI)nvesting

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI startups dominate the funding landscape, from mega deals like xAI, to more modest investments. But how do venture capitalists see this market evolv...

Digital Citizens or Digital Subjects?

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Frank McCourt is an American executive and philanthropist. He’s also the author of a new book about the internet, called “Our Biggest Fight: Recla...

Architect of the EU AI Act Expresses Concerns

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

EU AI Act architect and lead author Gabriele Mazzini shares his experience drafting the law. He also talks about his concerns with implementation, and...

Encore: The New Luddites

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Activists are fighting back against generative AI and reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process, says Brian Merchant in a new piece for The Atla...

The Race to Superintelligence

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is the final installment of a special series documenting the race to build superintelligent AI systems. The Race to Superintelligence is a deep d...

The Race to Superintelligence

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is part two of a special series documenting the race to build superintelligent AI systems.The Race to Superintelligence is a deep dive into the r...

The Race to Superintelligence

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Race to Superintelligence is a deep dive into the rapidly expanding world of artificial intelligence. Join us as we explore the groundbreaking, my...

Inside Disney’s AI Dystopia

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Disney’s science-fiction thriller, The Creator, paints a picture of a future world at war—humans vs. artificial intelligence. This episode we meet...

Oral History: Get Ready for Interspecies Money?

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a world in which a group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda might one day be able to pay for their own protection. It involves a new financial m...

What Makes Us Unique in the Age of AI?

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Perhaps the greatest fear about artificial intelligence is it will eventually replace human intelligence altogether, because if AI takes over decision...

Shaping the Future of AI Assisted Music

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Songwriter and music producer Harvey Mason Jr. has worked with some of the biggest stars of our time, from artists like Beyonce and Elton John, to Whi...

Why Many Parents and Teens Think It’s Harder Being a Teen Today

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you think it's harder or easier to be a teenager now than in the past? The Pew Research Center has been studying this question and found that howev...

Oral History: Companion Robots for Older Adults

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet a founder questioning the wisdom of the Turing Test as he works to address the loneliness epidemic among the elderly, in the latest installment o...

Oral History: Symbolic AI is Explainable

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this encore edition of our oral history project we meet a man trying to solve AI’s black box problem with symbolic AI, a subfield that communicat...

Oral History: Whistleblowers

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We learn why lawyers who help people seeking to legally expose corruption in the government and at private companies have decided to focus on big tech...

Oral History: AI Aids Hearing

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hearing has a profound impact on a person’s emotional, mental and cognitive well-being and there’s also a long, rich history of cutting edge tech ...

Oral History: Helping Journalists Investigate

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest installment of our oral history project, we meet a scientist who’s been supporting  deep investigative journalism projects for more t...

Encore: How Police are Using AI in Rwanda

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We hop into the backseat of a police car and learn how officers in Rwanda have adopted and deployed AI on the streets of its capital city, Kigali.We M...

Live: Delivering Education During Crisis

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Potentially a quarter billion children worldwide lack access to an education. Advances in education tech and AI programs for learning can help student...

Oral History: Human Centered AI

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We meet Dr. Fei-Fei Li In the latest installment of our oral history project. She's a Chinese-American computer scientist and the creator of ImageNet ...

Political Campaigns Can See What You Watch on TV

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Smart TVs that track what people watch and how they watch it give political campaigns a new trove of data to exploit, with little transparency on how ...

Live: Commercializing Our Space Age Future

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A live conversation about the state of the space industry with serial space entrepreneur Kam Ghaffarian, a co-founder of Axiom Space, Intuitive Machin...

Oral History: Minimizing the Risk of Mid-Air Collisions

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we minimize the risk of mid-air collisions between aircraft? And how does that change in the era of artificial intelligence and things like dro...

Teachers Use AI to Grade Papers. Who Grades the AI?

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A growing number of school kids are getting their writing assignments back with grades and feedback that were given by AI software.Teachers say these ...

Building a Poison Pill for Generative AI

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A team of computer scientists at the University of Chicago has built tools that let artists poison the training data embedded in their work, and fight...

Oral History: Journey to Quantum Advantage

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For some types of problems quantum computers can work exponentially faster than other types of supercomputers, but significant challenges remain to bu...

Live: AI's Role in Public Health

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A live conversation about the potential promises and pitfalls of AI in public health, hosted by Boston University's School of Public Health.We meet: ...

Oral History: Discovering Drugs with Generative AI

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A look at how generative AI is being used in the drug discovery process in this latest installment of our oral history project. We Meet: Insilico Me...