Robert Mahari, JD-PhD Researcher at MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the doom and gloom of A.I. taking over has got it all wrong — that the real problem is we might actually like it too much to put it down.
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Allison Pugh, professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what we lose when we swap out human workers for robots and artificial intelligence – and the very real benefits of human connection to help us feel seen.
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Matteo Wong is a staff writer for The Atlantic, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the looming extinction of some 7,000 languages since A.I. is only using about 10 to learn from.
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Dennis Yi Tenen, associate professor at Columbia University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why we shouldn’t be afraid that A.I. is coming for jobs.
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Eyal Press, a contributing writer for The New Yorker, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss cases of mistaken identity that sent innocent people to prison, all on the authority of tech that is still new and has unintended bias built in.
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Journalist Josh Dzieza discusses the tedious work it takes to create the artificial intelligence that seems so quick and breezy – and his own crack at the job that confounded him.
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Atlantic executive editor Adrienne LaFrance discusses why we must set aside places that no computers can touch to remind ourselves that we are fully human.
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Washington Post reporter Gerrit De Vynck joins us to break down issues with this new tech tool.
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Kevin Kelly from Wired discusses how artists should embrace and not fear new technology that creates art based on brief, human-like prompts, which he says will teach us new ways of human creativity.
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Cade Metz from The New York Times joins guest host Courtney Collins to talk about how we want our tech to talk back to us and have feelings and why we are still so far away from that even being in the realm of possibility.
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Charlie Warzel, contributing writer at The Atlantic, joins us to discuss Google’s search engine and why some critics say its function is decaying.
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Karen Hao, senior artificial intelligence reporter with MIT Technology Review, joins us to talk about her profile of Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, who built Facebook’s wildly successful AI platform only to later struggle with the reality that he can’t tame the monster he created.
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