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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-m3mmh-1b956c2 Last week, the internet had one of its worst stretches in memory. Between October 19th and 22nd, dozens of serious security problems came to light within a few days. Online, people started calling it “Black October.” Much of the coverage has framed this as a story about AI-powered hackers. Frank Riccardi, who joins me…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-x4mpw-1b8ba1e My guest today is Nabiha Syed, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, and one of the leading voices working at the intersection of technology, journalism, civil liberties, and the public interest. Nabiha has spent her career examining questions of information, power, and accountability: who controls information, who has access to it, and how powerful…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pnn32-1b8654c Last week, the International Rescue Committee published an article titled “I’m a Humanitarian Leader Who’s All In on AI. Here’s Why,” written by its Senior Vice President and Chief Research and Innovation Officer, Jeannie Annan. Annan argues that humanitarian organizations have a moral obligation to become some of its most ambitious users, reasoning that…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ydkxs-1b68623 What happens to mathematics when doing mathematics is no longer an exclusively human activity? For years, we’ve watched artificial intelligence get progressively better at math: solving equations, passing exams, succeeding at mathematical competitions, and generating proofs. But recent developments seem to cross a different kind of threshold. This month, OpenAI announced that an internal…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-asv7b-1b60e0e What does it mean for the web to be open—and open to whom? For most of the web’s history, we’ve operated on a fairly simple assumption: if you put something on a public website, people could find it, search engines could index it, and information could move relatively freely across the internet. But as…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-km735-1b5813a My guest today is Dave Merritt, cofounder and Chief Technology Officer of Watch Duty. Founded in 2021, Watch Duty is a nonprofit emergency-information platform that provides real-time, verified intelligence about wildfires and floods across all 50 states. Its network of active and retired firefighters, dispatchers, first responders, and reporters monitors radio traffic, satellites, cameras,…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zv3vw-1b45108 In the wake of this week’s landmark $18 billion settlement with Meta, we’re bringing you an episode with Yaël Eisenstat, one of the leading thinkers on the issues at the heart of that case — and the many other recent legal challenges that may be fundamentally changing how we think about the power and…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ddexy-1b3e333 My conversation today is with Monika Bielskyte, a futurist, foresight strategist, speculative designer and founder of Protopia Futures. She developed the Protopia World Stack, a science-informed, life-centric foresight methodology. Protopia is an Inclusive future vision based on evolved values, informed by bleeding edge scientific research and supported by advanced technological tools. She was Nike’s first…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xg4eg-1b1c012 On this episode I’m joined by Jess Holbrook, Head of UX Research for Microsoft AI. We talk about what UX research can—and cannot—tell us about what people need; why user-centered design may be too individualistic for technologies whose effects extend across families, workplaces, communities, and institutions; and what it means to put researchers in the…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hdvmu-1b13937 Today I am interviewing Bruce Friedrich, the author of the newly published book “Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food―and Our Future.” Bruce Friedrich is the president and founder of the Good Food Institute, one of the leading think tanks working to make the global food system better for the…