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142 episodes transcribedSocial media disinformation did enormous damage to our shared idea of reality. Now, the rise of generative AI has unleashed a flood of high-quality sy...
Historian Yuval Noah Harari says that we are at a critical turning point. One in which AI’s ability to generate cultural artifacts threatens humanity’...
It’s a confusing moment in AI. Depending on who you ask, we’re either on the fast track to AI that’s smarter than most humans, or the technology is ab...
AI is moving fast. And as companies race to rollout newer, more capable models–with little regard for safety–the downstream risks of those models beco...
[This episode originally aired on August 17, 2023] For all the talk about AI, we rarely hear about how it will change our relationships. As we swipe t...
Today, the tech industry is the second-biggest lobbying power in Washington, DC, but that wasn’t true as recently as ten years ago. How did we get to...
It’s been a year and half since Tristan and Aza laid out their vision and concerns for the future of artificial intelligence in The AI Dilemma. In thi...
AI has been a powerful accelerant for biological research, rapidly opening up new frontiers in medicine and public health. But that progress can also...
Will AI ever start to think by itself? If it did, how would we know, and what would it mean?In this episode, Dr. Anil Seth and Aza discuss the science...
Climate change, political instability, hunger. These are just some of the forces behind an unprecedented refugee crisis that’s expected to include ove...
This week, a group of current and former employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind penned an open letter accusing the industry’s leading companies of...
Right now, militaries around the globe are investing heavily in the use of AI weapons and drones. From Ukraine to Gaza, weapons systems with increasi...
Tech companies say that AI will lead to massive economic productivity gains. But as we know from the first digital revolution, that’s not what happene...
Suicides. Self harm. Depression and anxiety. The toll of a social media-addicted, phone-based childhood has never been more stark. It can be easy for...
Beneath the race to train and release more powerful AI models lies another race: a race by companies and nation-states to secure the hardware to make...
What does a functioning democracy look like in the age of artificial intelligence? Could AI even be used to help a democracy flourish? Just in time fo...
Was it political progress, or just political theater? The recent Senate hearing with social media CEOs led to astonishing moments — including Mark Zuc...
Over the past year, a tsunami of apps that digitally strip the clothes off real people has hit the market. Now anyone can create fake non-consensual s...
We usually talk about tech in terms of economics or policy, but the casual language tech leaders often use to describe AI — summoning an inanimate for...
2024 will be the biggest election year in world history. Forty countries will hold national elections, with over two billion voters heading to the pol...
