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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8yg28-1554b51 Today I am interviewing Dr. Sam Sammane about his forthcoming book, “The Singularity of Hope”, which aims to guide readers through the challenges and opportunities of the AI era, advocating for a harmonious fusion of human intelligence and machine capabilities. Dr. Sammane envisions a world where the rapid advancements in AI and technology are…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gjkdx-1549c09 Welcome back to a brand-new season of Technically Human! We’re thrilled to be back with new episodes of the show. We are kicking off the new season, and the new year, with an episode featuring one of my favorite thinkers, Dr. Deborah Stone, to talk about what it means to count—that is to say,…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2jpts-14fea5f In this episode of the show, I talk with Jared Maslin about what it means to have privacy on the internet. We talk about the difference between privacy and secrecy, the benefits and limitations of GDPR and the possibility of privacy regulation coming to the US, and we explore the biggest challenges facing data…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kyfk4-14f60c5 In this week’s episode of the show I sit down with Dr. Tonya Evans to talk about the state of crypto in the wake of last week’s landmark criminal fraud conviction of the former CEO of FTX and the former prophet of crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried. Dr. Evans and I discuss what new crypto economy…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-33zkn-14e1317 In this episode of the show, I sit down with Dr. Mark Sagar to talk about his vision of an embodied form of AI. Dr. Sagar is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Soul Machines, a company investigating how to use natural language processing with hyper-realistic visuals to create autonomously animated, emotionally dynamic Digital People.…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6axgm-14db0f3 Hi Technically Human listeners. This is a show about ethics and tech, but it’s also a show about what it means to be human. There is no area of being human in this moment that technologies does not touch. I know that many members of this listening community have been deeply affected by the…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-97784-14ce7de In today’s conversation, I sit down with Amy Kurzweil, the author of the new graphic memoir, Artificial: A Love Story. Artificial: A Love Story tells the story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life. The story begins with the LLM generated chatbot that Amy’s father,…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kpydq-14c460f Hi Technically Human listeners! I’m on vacation this week, and our team has pulled one of our favorite interviews, and definitely hands down our funniest from our archives to share with you—an episode with Dan Lyons on hat makes Silicon Valley funny–and how that humor gets at some of the deeply sobering realities of…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2b845-14ba369 In this episode of Technically Human, I sit down with Dr. Julie Albright to talk about her new book: Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream. We talk about the way that digital culture is changing the American Dream for the next generation, we discuss how the internet is…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tt2c3-14acfb9 Earlier this year, Consumer Reports, in collaboration with the Kapor Center, debuted “Bad Input,” three short films that set out to explore and to create public awareness about how biases in algorithms/data sets result in unfair practices for communities of color, often without their knowledge. In this episode of the show, I talk to…