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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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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Washington Post reporter David Montgomery joins us to discuss the Pentagon’s simulated search-and-rescue competition that is stretching the limits of how robots process information and, ultimately, help the humans around them.
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Kate Darling joins us to talk about how our relationship with animals might serve as a guide to our dealings with robots.
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Journalist Bryan Walsh joins us to talk about the many probabilities of world-ending catastrophic events, reported with humor and backed up by hard science.
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Sigal Samuel joins us to talk through which other beings we should be thinking about with greater compassion and add to the evolving “moral circle.”
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Wired senior editor Richard Dorment joins us to talk about whether or not we should fear everything from a robot apocalypse to internet trolls.
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This hour on Think, we’ll talk about the ethics of reducing human involvement in war – and whether we should preemptively ban these machines – with Michael C. Horowitz, associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how close we are to a Jetsons-like existence with Pulitzer Prize-winning technology writer John Markoff, author of “Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots” (Ecco).
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As more and more jobs are becoming automated, some workers are becoming obsolete. This hour, we’ll talk about what that means for the future of our workforce with Derek Thompson, whose story “A World Without Work” appears in The Atlantic.
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We’re training them to clean our floors, babysit our kids and any number of other tasks. This hour, we’ll talk about what else we’re farming out to our bionic buddies with Reason managing editor Katherine Mangu-Ward.
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