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Understanding the Schism at OpenAI from 2023-12-06T08:02:04
The upheaval at OpenAI sent shockwaves through the tech world. Karen Hao, a contributing writer who covers AI at The Atlantic, joins Azeem Azhar to break down the ideologies and power struggles wit...
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Azeem’s Picks: The Promise of AI with Fei-Fei Li from 2023-11-29T08:22:29
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on every business leader’s agenda. How do you ensure the AI systems you deploy are harmless and trustworthy? This month, Azeem Azhar picks some of his favorite conve...
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Azeem’s Picks: Grading AI’s Hits and Misses from 2023-11-22T08:22:06
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on every business leader’s agenda. How do you ensure the AI systems you deploy are harmless and trustworthy? This month, Azeem picks some of his favorite conversatio...
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Azeem’s Picks: Creating AI Responsibly with Joanna Bryson from 2023-11-15T08:22:17
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on every business leader’s agenda. How do you ensure the AI systems you deploy are harmless and trustworthy? This month, Azeem picks some of his favorite conversatio...
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Azeem’s Picks: AI, Accountability, and Power with Meredith Whittaker from 2023-11-08T08:22:22
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on every business leader’s agenda. How do you ensure the AI systems you deploy are harmless and trustworthy? This month, Azeem picks some of his favorite conversatio...
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Azeem’s Picks: How to Practice Responsible AI with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury from 2023-11-01T08:22:21
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on every business leader’s agenda. How do you ensure the AI systems you deploy are harmless and trustworthy? This month, Azeem picks some of his favorite conversatio...
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Introducing Exponentially with Azeem Azhar from 2023-09-07T08:02:04
As exponential technologies like artificial intelligence march on, the ability to make future-proof decisions is all the more important for leaders. Azeem Azhar’s new TV show and podcast, Exponenti...
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Azeem on AI: What Can the Copernican Revolution Teach Us about the Future of AI? from 2023-05-26T02:01:21
In his brief commentary, Azeem Azhar discusses the increasing complexity and capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and the transformative potential they hold.
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Azeem on AI: Are Large Language Models the Future of the Web? from 2023-05-24T08:00:54
In his brief commentary, Azeem Azhar lays out why the future of the Web is underpinned by AI, and what this means for the traditional business model of the internet.
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Azeem on AI: Where Will the Jobs Come from After AI? from 2023-05-19T08:00:30
In his brief commentary, Azeem Azhar shares his outlook on how artificial intelligence will change the labor market, drawing on research published by Goldman Sachs.
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Azeem on AI: Will Large Language Models Reshape Our Economies? from 2023-05-17T08:00:29
Drawing on Carlota Perez's framework, Azeem Azhar considers whether large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4, will drive a paradigm shift across our economies.
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Azeem’s Picks: AI’s Near Future with Jürgen Schmidhuber from 2023-05-12T08:00:20
Artificial intelligence (AI) is dominating the headlines, but it’s not a new topic here on Exponential View. This week and next, Azeem Azhar shares his favorite conversations with AI pioneers. Thei...
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Azeem’s Picks: Beyond Deep Learning (with Gary Marcus) from 2023-05-10T08:00:50
Artificial intelligence (AI) is dominating the headlines, but it’s not a new topic here on Exponential View. Azeem Azhar shares his favorite conversations with AI experts. Their work and insights a...
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Azeem’s Picks: Demis Hassabis on DeepMind’s Journey from Games to Fundamental Science from 2023-05-05T08:00:03
Artificial intelligence (AI) is dominating the headlines, but it’s not a new topic here on Exponential View. This week and next, Azeem Azhar shares his favorite conversations with AI pioneers. Thei...
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Azeem’s Picks: Sam Altman on How GPTs Are Shaping Our AI Future from 2023-05-03T08:00:58
Artificial intelligence (AI) is dominating the headlines, but it’s not a new topic here on Exponential View. This week and next, Azeem Azhar shares his favorite conversations with AI pioneers. Thei...
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Upcoming Hiatus: What to Listen to While We’re Away from 2022-06-22T10:00:05
After producing more than 160 episodes of Exponential View over the last six years, we’re taking a break to reflect on what we’ve learned and how the conversations we’ve hosted with leaders are cha...
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Can Entrepreneurs and Governments Team Up to Solve Big Problems? (from Cold Call) from 2022-06-15T08:00:19
This episode is a special introduction to Cold Call, another podcast from Harvard Business Review. Host Brian Kenny explores Shield AI’s work with the U.S. government to develop autonomous combat r...
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The Co-Creator of the iPod and iPhone on Radical Innovation (with Tony Fadell) from 2022-06-08T08:00:13
How do you talk about a product before anything like it exists? How do you guide the engineers building it and the marketing department who has to sell it? As co-creator of the iPod and iPhone, fou...
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The Science and Economics of Carbon Recycling (with LanzaTech’s Jennifer Holmgren) from 2022-06-01T14:28:42
Carbon recycling takes our polluting carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and, with the help of bacteria, turns them into ethanol. This can replace oil as the basis for carbon-based chemicals industr...
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Can Collective Intelligence Beat the Market? (with Numerai’s Richard Craib) from 2022-05-25T08:00:30
Quantitative hedge funds, which rely on the work of employed mathematicians to develop complex trading strategies, are nothing new. But what if the mathematical work is outsourced to anyone, via a ...
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Hydrogen’s Role in Decarbonization (with Electric Hydrogen CEO Raffi Garabedian) from 2022-05-18T08:00:34
Hydrogen has long been hyped as a fuel of the future. It’s abundant and its waste product is water. But it’s only recently that the availability of cheap renewable energy has allowed hydrogen to be...
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Flying Taxis Are Coming (with Volocopter’s Florian Reuter) from 2022-05-11T08:00:29
From The Jetsons to Back to the Future, flying cars are a staple of popular science fiction. German start-up Volocopter is working to turn that fiction into reality. Volocopter’s CEO Florian Reuter...
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How Web3 Is Changing Commerce and Governance (with Not Boring’s Packy McCormick) from 2022-05-04T08:00:02
Web3’s ability to attach value and incentives to almost every part of human activity has radical implications not only for how businesses engage with their customers, but also for how people can se...
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Gaming’s Web3 Future (with FTX Ventures’Amy Wu) from 2022-04-27T08:00:51
As the gaming industry evolves to meet the challenges and opportunities of Web3, could it drive the mass adoption of crypto? Amy Wu leads investment, M&A, and gaming initiatives at cryptocurrency e...
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Money in the Metaverse (with Citi’s Ronit Ghose) from 2022-04-20T08:00:44
What is the metaverse, how will we use it, and why might the financial innovations of Web3 and blockchain technology be crucial to its success? Citi’s Ronit Ghose, one of the world’s foremost analy...
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Venture Capital and Deep Decarbonization (with Energy Impact Partners’Shayle Kann) from 2022-04-13T12:02:08
Venture capitalists offer their investors outsized financial returns in exchange for taking on considerable risk. But what if that risk includes backing products where the economics of the end mark...
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AI and Cancer: Unlocking the Immune System (with Immunai’s Luis Voloch) from 2022-04-06T11:12:15
Today’s cancer therapies are difficult, expensive, and slow to create. But the combination of new computing and new biological technologies is leading to a better understanding of the human immune ...
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Bonus: The Future of Drones from What’s Your Problem? from 2022-03-31T08:00:39
This episode is a special preview of the new podcast, What’s Your Problem? from Pushkin Industries. What’s Your Problem? explains the problems really smart people are trying to solve right now, fro...
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How To Make Nuclear Energy Safe (with Seaborg’s Troels Schönfeldt) from 2022-03-30T08:00:09
Danish start-up Seaborg Technologies has a blueprint for the future of power that uses a new type of nuclear reactor that is safe, can be manufactured quickly, and deployed on barges to any locatio...
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The Meaning of Life in the Metaverse (with David Chalmers) from 2022-03-23T08:00:32
We could soon be living more of our lives in immersive virtual worlds, but what will that look like and how will it affect us? New York University professor of philosophy and neural science David C...
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The Future of Warfare Is Here (with General Sir Richard Barrons) from 2022-03-16T08:00:17
As war returns to Europe, General Sir Richard Barrons, former commander of the UK’s Joint Forces Command (whose remit included military intelligence, special forces, and cyber), joins Azeem Azhar t...
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How the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Will Change Cyberwar (with Robert Hannigan) from 2022-03-09T08:00:53
Many experts expected Russia’s war with Ukraine to be accompanied by a large-scale cyberattack, but that hasn’t yet materialized. Azeem Azhar speaks to Robert Hannigan, the former head of GCHQ (the...
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Vertical Farming and the Future of Food (with ZERO Farms’Daniele Modesto) from 2022-03-02T08:00:20
Technology is making traditional agriculture more efficient, but farming still has its problems. It takes a huge amount of land and can be energy- and water-intensive. In addition, produce needs to...
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Scaling Synthetic Biology (with Ginkgo’s Reshma Shetty) from 2022-02-23T08:00:56
Science is getting better at re-engineering micro-organisms for all kinds of uses, from better medical treatments to more durable materials. But there are still hurdles to overcome, including scali...
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Micromobility Will Change Our Cities (with Horace Dediu) from 2022-02-16T09:03:23
Eighty percent of urban trips are less than two miles long. So why do so many of us make them in big, inefficient, and expensive vehicles? Micromobility analyst Horace Dediu joins Azeem Azhar to di...
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How Venture Capital Made the Modern World (with Sebastian Mallaby) from 2022-02-09T08:00:57
Seventy-five percent of the total value of US companies that have floated since 1995 has been created by venture-backed firms, including Alphabet, Facebook, and countless others. But how did an obs...
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The Future of Healthcare: Personalization and AI (with ZOE’s Jonathan Wolf) from 2022-02-02T08:00:18
Nutritional science has long been one-size-fits-all. Advice on a healthier diet has long been generic, failing to consider the huge variance of our bodies. ZOE is trying to change that by combining...
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What Studying Consciousness Can Reveal about AI and the Metaverse (with Anil Seth) from 2022-01-26T08:00:31
The workings of the brain have long puzzled scientists and philosophers, but the last twenty years have been a golden age for consciousness research. Neuroscientist Anil Seth explains his theories ...
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Supercritical’s Mission to Help Tech Reach Net Zero (with Michelle You) from 2022-01-19T08:00:16
Companies of all sizes and sectors have committed to net-zero emissions targets, but getting there is not straightforward. Measuring carbon dioxide output is tricky, carbon markets are fragmented, ...
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Crypto and the Future of Money (with Terra’s Do Kwon) from 2022-01-12T08:00:23
Some people see cryptocurrencies as speculative assets with no real utility at best, a Ponzi scam at worst. For others, they’re the future of money. Do Kwon, founder and CEO of Terraform Labs, the ...
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Azeem’s 2022 Trends: Web 3.0, Sci-Fi Tech, and the Metaverse from 2022-01-05T08:01:47
Azeem Azhar sets out his vision for 2022 and shares the trends that he thinks will change our world this year. Some changes are hurtling down the pike, like the growth of Web 3.0 and the metaverse,...
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Learning from 2021: Azeem’s Takeaways from 2021-12-29T08:01:15
As 2021 draws to a close and Covid cases spike, it’s easy to think not much has changed. But in between pandemic waves, we’ve made major progress in science and technology. And that progress gives ...
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From Tech Investor to Author (with a16z’s Andrew Chen) from 2021-12-22T08:03:31
Andreessen Horowitz general partner Andrew Chen and host Azeem Azhar have something in common: they were both tech company insiders and early-stage investors before becoming authors. They explore w...
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How Quantum Computing Will Change Everything (with Chad Rigetti) from 2021-12-15T08:01:55
Quantum computing won’t be an incremental improvement – it will represent a step-change in the power of the computing technology that underpins our modern economy. Exponentially faster computing wo...
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Nuclear Fusion’s Time is (Finally) Coming from 2021-12-08T08:05:25
Nuclear fusion seems to have been “twenty years away” forever, but recent advances could mean fusion is finally on its way to becoming part of our energy mix. Azeem Azhar speaks to Nick Hawker, co-...
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Grading AI: The Hits and Misses from 2021-12-01T08:01:33
Murray Shanahan, professor of cognitive robotics at Imperial College London and a senior research scientist at DeepMind, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss AI: where developments have exceeded expectatio...
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Technology and Redistribution of Power (with Yanis Varoufakis) from 2021-11-24T08:01:40
Former Greek Finance Minister, economist, and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis joins Azeem Azhar to discuss his speculative novel Another Now. The book isn’t pure fiction; it’s an optimistic vis...
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The AI Revolution is Just Beginning (with Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth) from 2021-11-17T08:01:39
Investors Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth co-author the influential, annual “State of AI” report. They join Azeem Azhar to discuss breakout developments in disparate fields, from defense to medical...
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Why Energy Storage Is the Future of the Grid (with Malta CEO Ramya Swaminathan) from 2021-11-10T08:01:22
Renewable energy is the future of our power systems, but relying on solar, wind, etc. will require a more reliable and resilient grid. Energy storage will be essential, and Malta Inc.’s molten-salt...
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Building a Multibillion-Dollar Company in 18 Months (with Hopin’s Johnny Boufarhat) from 2021-11-03T08:01:08
Hopin is one of the fastest-growing startups in history. The virtual events company had six employees in February 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. A year and a half later, it employs mo...
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Decarbonization by the Numbers (with Michele Della Vigna) from 2021-10-27T08:01:26
Governments and companies have committed to net-zero emissions by 2050, but it’s not clear how they plan to get there – or how much it will cost. Michele Della Vigna, who runs the Carbonomics resea...
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The Future of the Car (with Ford’s Hau Thai-Tang) from 2021-10-20T08:00:15
Ford has been making cars for 118 years -- nearly all of them with internal combustion engines. It now faces the biggest challenge in its history. Hau Thai-Tang, Ford’s chief product platform and o...
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Funding Innovation to Fight Climate Change from 2021-10-13T08:01:31
Fighting the climate crisis requires investment, innovation, and on-the-ground know-how. Dawn Lippert works at the intersection of all three. She’s the founder and CEO of Elemental Excelerator, a n...
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How Network Effects Rule the World (with James Currier) from 2021-10-06T08:01:20
Google, Facebook, Apple, and Uber are just some of the enormous companies that derive part of their value from network effects: the more users they have, the more value they provide. Serial entrepr...
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Imagining Climate Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson from 2021-07-07T08:57:33
Kim Stanley Robinson, the legendary science-fiction novelist, has a private utopian hope: “to dodge a mass extinction event.” He joins Azeem Azhar to explore his recent novel, The Ministry For the ...
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How to Regulate Facebook (with Nick Clegg) from 2021-06-30T07:00:22
Facebook serves 34 percent of the world’s population and decides who to block and what to censor. How should governments regulate this startling power? Nick Clegg, the UK’s former deputy prime mini...
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The Future of Digital Payments from 2021-06-23T08:50:59
Visa processes more than 500 million transactions every day. How is the world’s largest digital payment platform adapting to new technologies and fresh competition? Charlotte Hogg, executive vice p...
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How to Practice Responsible AI from 2021-06-16T08:57:57
From predictive policing to automated credit scoring, algorithms applied on a massive scale, gone unchecked, represent a serious threat to our society. Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, director of Machine Lea...
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The Coming AI Hackers from 2021-06-09T08:48:44
AI hackers are coming, and it’s not just our computer networks at risk – our laws and regulations are also vulnerable. Bruce Schneier, internationally renowned security technologist and fellow at H...
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Banking without Banks: Decentralized Finance is Coming from 2021-06-02T08:56:51
Could we have a financial industry without banks or brokers? That’s the vision of decentralized finance – or DeFi – in which financial products are built from tamper-proof digital smart contracts i...
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AI’s Competitive Advantage from 2021-05-26T08:57:39
AI can offer a new type of competitive advantage, but entrepreneurs need to know what it is and how to unlock it. Ash Fontana, author of The AI First Company and managing director at Zetta Venture ...
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Building a Trustworthy Market for Carbon Offsets: Part 2 from 2021-05-20T08:47:11
Using forests to offset a company’s carbon emissions has been dismissed as “greenwashing.” But Diego Saez Gil argues that a verifiable and transparent global market in carbon credits is a vital too...
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Building a Trustworthy Market for Carbon Offsets: Part 1 from 2021-05-19T09:00:59
How do we build a market for carbon offsets that is both trustworthy and effective? Diego Saez Gil, co-founder and CEO of Pachama, believes he has the answer. In part 1 of the conversation, Diego j...
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The Power of Mental Modeling and the Limits of AI from 2021-05-12T08:51:19
Kenneth Cukier, senior editor at the Economist, and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the University of Oxford, argue that because AI systems have no cau...
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Startups and the State: Growing French Tech from 2021-05-05T09:01:58
In less than a decade France has gone from tech backwater to the startup engine of the EU. It recently celebrated its 12th company to achieve a $1 billion valuation and is well on the way to Presid...
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How Data Helps Companies Honor Their Climate Goals from 2021-04-28T09:00:40
Turning a corporate climate pledge into reality is a complex endeavor. Watershed, a software startup co-founded by Christian Anderson, is committed to using data to cut corporate emissions fast. In...
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The Future of Meat from 2021-04-21T08:56:08
Livestock is responsible for 15 percent of global greenhouse emissions. Could meat grown in labs offer a sustainable – and palatable – future? Didier Toubia, CEO and co-founder of cultured meat sta...
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Mapping AI’s Societal Impact from 2021-04-14T09:13:45
AI is not just code and algorithms. It’s an industry built on a global network of resource extraction, human labor, and data collection. Kate Crawford, senior principal researcher at Microsoft Rese...
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Making Quantum Computers a Commercial Reality from 2021-04-07T09:52
IonQ is the first company solely focused on quantum computing to go public, with its quantum computers accessible via the cloud today. The company’s co-founder/chief scientist Chris Monroe and pres...
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Bitcoin and the Future of Decentralized Finance from 2021-03-31T08:58:12
Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the potential and politics of cryptocurrencies: from the ideological origins of Bitcoin to the new wave of decent...
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The Evolution of Teamwork (with Atlassian CEO Scott Farquhar) from 2021-03-24T08:54:42
Atlassian, the enterprise software innovator, is helping to drive disruption across the world of work. Co-founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar joins Azeem Azhar to explain how, during a global pandemi...
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The Architects of AI from 2021-03-17T09:05:54
Cade Metz, technology correspondent at The New York Times, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss his new book Genius Makers. In it, he tells the story of the pioneers who brought AI out of academic labs, sp...
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Universities and the Innovation Landscape from 2021-03-10T09:04:46
What are universities for? Are they an elite pipeline for elite jobs, or can they meet the needs of societies transforming amid technological advances? Azeem Azhar explores the role of higher educa...
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Engineering a Driverless Future from 2021-03-03T08:03:58
Chris Urmson, co-founder and CEO of the self-driving technology startup Aurora, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the state-of-play of self-driving technology, the criticisms the tech must address, and ...
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Fixing the Social Media Crisis from 2021-02-24T08:51:35
Social networks polarize communities and spread misinformation. Professor Sinan Aral, director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy and author of The Hype Machine, joins Azeem Azhar to explor...
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Investing in Deep Tech for an Abundant Future from 2021-02-17T08:56:31
Could deep tech bring about an age of abundance? Matt Ocko, co-founder and managing partner of Data Collective Venture Capital, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the art of investing in startups that ai...
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From Insurance Giant to Tech Platform: The Story of Ping An from 2021-02-10T08:59:02
From an insurance giant to an incubator of cutting-edge tech companies, Ping An’s evolution is impressive and unique. Chief Innovation Officer Jonathan Larsen joins Azeem Azhar to explore how the C...
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Building A Quantum Computer with Light from 2021-02-03T09:17:05
“Quantum computing is to conventional computing what a warp drive is to a bicycle,” says Jeremy O’Brien, CEO of PsiQuantum. He joins Azeem Azhar to explore the exponential advantage quantum computi...
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Bringing DARPA’s Innovation to Health from 2021-01-27T08:41:29
Regina Dugan, CEO of new biomedical non-profit Wellcome Leap and former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the U.S., joins Azeem Azhar to explore how she approache...
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Big Tech and a Decade of Antitrust with Cory Doctorow from 2021-01-06T09:00:27
Cory Doctorow, award-winning author, technologist, and founder joins Azeem Azhar to explore the power of big tech monopolies and how a future wave of antitrust lawsuits could unleash innovation acr...
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Learning from 2020: Azeem’s Takeaways from 2020-12-30T09:30:04
Azeem Azhar reflects on how Covid-19 has affected technology and our lives in 2020 and why the effects of the pandemic will be felt for many years to come.
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Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change with Cory Doctorow from 2020-12-23T09:30:46
Cory Doctorow, award winning author, technologist, and founder, joins Azeem Azhar to explore how we can harness massive collective action and exponential technologies to mitigate climate change.
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Making Venture Capital Work for Entrepreneurs from 2020-12-16T09:42:35
Leila Rastegar Zegna, general partner and co-founder of Kindred Capital, joins Azeem Azhar to explore a new model for venture capital, where startup founders become partners in the fund. This new a...
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IKEA: Making a $40 Billion Company Climate Positive from 2020-12-09T09:08:19
Jesper Brodin, CEO of Ingka Group, joins Azeem Azhar to explore IKEA’s goal to be a net reducer of carbon emissions by 2030 – while still growing its business.
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China’s Technology Transformation with Kai-Fu Lee from 2020-12-02T09:05:12
Kai-Fu Lee, AI pioneer and investor, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the evolution of China’s vibrant tech sector, the rise of consumer-facing robots, the consequences for labor, and the future of edu...
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Materials Built by Microbes: A Revolution in Materials Science from 2020-11-25T08:58:28
Zymergen CEO Joshua Hoffman joins Azeem Azhar to explore how cutting-edge bioengineering, robotics, and machine learning are helping create a new generation of high-performance, environmentally sus...
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Silicon Valley Needs a Shakedown with Chamath Palihapitiya from 2020-11-18T09:15:50
Investor Chamath Palihapitiya joins Azeem Azhar to explore the dysfunctional relationship between capital and companies, why he loves a SPAC (special purpose acquisition company), and why he’s cham...
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How AI and Genomics Are Reshaping Farming from 2020-11-11T09:41:37
“The time for vertical farming is here,” says Mike Zelkind, co-founder and CEO of 80 Acres Farms. He joins Azeem Azhar to explore what’s broken in the food supply chain, and how a new breed of high...
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Understanding the Enduring Consequences of Covid-19 from 2020-11-09T15:03:45
Yale professor Nicholas Christakis argues that we can expect this current phase of the Covid-19 pandemic to end in 2022. In conversation with Azeem Azhar, Christakis explains why we need to brace f...
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Should We End the Data Economy? from 2020-11-04T08:40:36
Ownership of personal data is a form of power – and that power is concentrating in the hands of governments and big tech. Should we be worried? Dr. Carissa Véliz, from the Institute for Ethics in A...
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Facebook’s Tech Chief: How We Built It and Where We’re Going from 2020-10-28T06:35:38
Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer joins Azeem Azhar to explore how they built the infrastructure powering the social network, why AI and virtual reality are the core of its future...
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DeepMind’s Journey from Games to Fundamental Science from 2020-10-21T08:48:15
DeepMind’s co-founder and CEO, Demis Hassabis, joins Azeem Azhar to explore his company's progression from gaming to accelerating scientific discovery.
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How Taiwan is Using Technology to Foster Democracy (with Digital Minister Audrey Tang) from 2020-10-14T08:23:43
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s first digital minister, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how the Taiwanese Government is using the Internet as a space for civic participation, dialogue, and consensus building.
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How GPT-3 Is Shaping Our AI Future from 2020-10-07T09:05:22
OpenAI stunned the world with the release of the world’s most impressive language-generating AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins Azeem Azhar to reflect on the huge attention generated by GPT-3 and what...
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Season 4 Finale: Azeem’s Favorite Episodes and Trends to Watch from 2020-07-01T10:59:01
As we wrap up the season and head off to a short summer break, Azeem Azhar reflects on what he learned from his conversations with technology and business leaders on the podcast -- and how those in...
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Reimagining Capitalism for a Broken World from 2020-06-24T08:43:35
A thriving global economy depends on more than just free markets. Harvard Business School professor Rebecca Henderson offers a fresh vision of purpose-driven capitalism, where companies can make go...
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Engineering Biology: The Next Frontier from 2020-06-17T08:51:46
Drug discovery, novel materials, and genetic engineering are some of the topics under the microscope in Azeem Azhar’s discussion with Andreessen Horowitz general partner Vijay Pande. They explore t...
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Rethinking the Innovation Ecosystem from 2020-06-10T08:34:14
Starting a company with a stranger is not the traditional path for many entrepreneurs, but this is one of the basic principles of Entrepreneur First (EF), the world’s leading talent investor. Matt ...
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Using AI to Decentralize Organizations from 2020-06-03T08:41:32
As the Covid-19 pandemic forces companies to rethink their workflows and structures, Azeem Azhar speaks with Daniel Hulme, CEO of Satalia, whose company runs as a decentralized swarm. There are no ...
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Empowering Workers in the Digital Future from 2020-05-27T08:59:37
Companies increasingly use digital systems to hire, fire, and monitor their employees. But who is keeping employers in check? Former union leader and AI ethics expert, Dr. Christina Colclough joins...
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Building Better Cities After Covid-19 from 2020-05-20T09:38:20
How do we build better cities after the coronavirus crisis? The World Bank’s Sameh Wahba joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how the World Bank partners with technologists to help cities on the frontline ...
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Fei-Fei Li’s Mission to Transform Healthcare AI from 2020-05-13T08:55:31
After ImageNet transformed AI vision, superstar Stanford computer science professor Fei-Fei Li has turned her attention to advancing healthcare. She joins Azeem Azhar to discuss her new approach to...
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How Nasdaq is Growing the World’s Digital Marketplace from 2020-05-06T09:06:07
Nasdaq has evolved from being the world’s first digital marketplace to a global technology company. CEO Adena Friedman joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how their digital operation has become the model ...
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The Digital Future of the Supply Chain from 2020-04-29T09:16:32
The Fung Group coordinates some of the world’s largest and most complex supply chains. Pamela Mar, EVP for Knowledge and Applications at Fung, joins Azeem Azhar to explore how developing digital co...
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Lessons for an Aging World from 2020-04-27T08:14:29
For the first time in history, there are more people on the planet over 65 years old, than under five. How do we adapt to this demographic transformation? Camilla Cavendish, award-winning journalis...
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The New Science of Aging from 2020-04-22T09:06:49
Harvard geneticist David Sinclair joins Azeem Azhar to discuss his pioneering research into the pathways and processes responsible for aging, and the new treatments that could keep us younger for l...
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Navigating Covid-19 in a Digital Republic (with President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid) from 2020-04-20T09:11:18
President Kersti Kaljulaid joins Azeem Azhar to explore how legal and technological innovations have helped Estonia create the most advanced e-government in the world, and how this digital republic...
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The Drive to Decarbonize from 2020-04-15T08:17:49
Ramez Naam, clean energy investor and technologist, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the economic and industrial forces that are accelerating us towards a zero-carbon future, as well as the major chall...
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Inside Alphabet’s X: Nurturing Radical Creativity from 2020-04-08T09:14:53
Alphabet Inc.’s X (formerly Google X) creates the most daring innovations to tackle the world’s biggest problems. CEO Astro Teller joins Azeem Azhar to explain how he creates a culture of radical c...
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The Next Trillion-Dollar Market from 2020-04-01T08:28:27
Softbank Vision Fund Senior Managing Partner, Deep Nishar joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how the confluence of AI, genomics, and automation are opening up new possibilities in biotech and materials s...
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Technology Companies and the New Recession from 2020-03-30T09:05:18
The COVID-19 pandemic will cause an economic crisis never seen before, says equity analyst Pierre Ferragu. He joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how this crisis will affect the technology industry, in pa...
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Science Fights the Coronavirus from 2020-03-24T11:45:46
How effective is science at tackling COVID-19, and how will the pandemic evolve next?
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The Redecentralized Web from 2020-03-18T09:17
Muneeb Ali, co-founder and CEO of Blockstack, a decentralized computing network, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss rebuilding the internet to give control back to users.
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Welfare in the Exponential Age from 2020-03-11T09:01:51
Hilary Cottam, social entrepreneur and author of the acclaimed book, “Radical Help,” joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the future of welfare in the exponential age.
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How Humans Judge Machines from 2020-03-04T09:02:49
Physicist and author, Cesar Hidalgo joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how understanding knowledge leads to insights on everything from the economic value of megacities to how to moralize machines.
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Can Airtable Democratize Software Development? from 2020-02-26T08:49:39
Airtable founder Howie Liu and Azeem Azhar discuss what it means to create a new $100 billion market category.
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Geopolitics, Technology, and Risk from 2020-02-19T09:04:21
Geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how the forces of technology are shaping and threatening global stability.
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Surviving a Crisis During the Techlash from 2020-02-12T08:34:02
Renowned crisis manager, lawyer, author, and television producer, Judy Smith, the inspiration for the TV show “Scandal,” joins Azeem Azhar to discuss what tech businesses need to know to stay on to...
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Leading a Technology Giant During the Techlash from 2020-02-05T09:08:23
Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how regulation can advance the technology industry and innovation.
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Superintelligence Already Rules the World from 2020-01-22T10:01:32
We've already been living with artificial decision-making machines for hundreds of years -- we call them corporations and states. That’s the argument David Runciman makes in conversation with Azeem...
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Building Unicorns in Europe from 2019-12-18T09:22:22
Reshma Sohoni, co-founder and managing partner Seedcamp (a seed-stage fund focusing on Europe), joins Azeem Azhar to discuss what it takes to build a thriving startup ecosystem outside Silicon Vall...
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The State of Nanotechnology from 2019-12-11T09:09:59
One of the leading pioneers in the field of nanotechnology, physicist Sonia Contera joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how advances in biology, computing, and physics are bringing about another tech revo...
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Cybersecurity in the Age of AI from 2019-12-04T09:08:09
Nicole Eagan, CEO of Darktrace, one of the world’s leading cybersecurity firms, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how artificial intelligence is opening a new battlefield for hackers, governments, and p...
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Growth and the Energy Transition with Vaclav Smil from 2019-11-27T08:58:36
Vaclav Smil, preeminent expert on energy history and development, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss what is required for our fossil fuel-dependent civilization to transition to a sustainable energy system.
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AI, Accountability, and Power from 2019-11-20T10:06:42
Meredith Whittaker, co-director of the AI Now Institute and one of the organizers of the Google Walkout in 2018, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how discrimination and bias are influencing the develop...
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Technology and the New World of Work from 2019-11-13T09:52:09
The reinvention of craftsmanship started in Silicon Valley, and it’s spreading and reshaping the rules of work. This is the thesis of Laetitia Vitaud’s latest book, “Du labeur à l’ouvrage (From Lab...
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How Free-Market Economists Got It Wrong from 2019-11-06T09:25:24
Azeem Azhar and Binyamin Appelbaum discuss how a group of free-market economists managed to reshape our modern world. They promised growth and broad prosperity, but instead left us with fractured s...
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Beyond Deep Learning with Gary Marcus from 2019-10-30T09:35:05
Gary Marcus has a reputation for being a contrarian in the AI community. Over the past several years, Marcus, a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and the author of “Rebooting AI: Building Artificial In...
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AI and the Future of Warfare from 2019-10-23T09:13:23
Peace is fragile, especially when anyone can use open source technology to build a weapon to inflict harm, online and offline. General Sir Richard Barrons, former Commander of the UK’s Joint Forces...
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Bubbles, Golden Ages, and Tech Revolutions from 2019-10-16T09:23:08
Economist Carlota Perez joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the life cycle of technology revolutions and how they ultimately change every aspect of society. Perez is optimistic about the future -- she exp...
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Creating an AI-First Business with Andrew Ng from 2019-10-09T08:28:55
Andrew Ng, former leader of Google’s and Baidu’s AI divisions, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how businesses should approach AI adoption, and how machine intelligence will change industries and our w...
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Tony Blair: Governing in the Age of AI from 2019-10-02T08:19:54
Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the UK, joins Azeem Azhar in conversation about how the technology industry and policy makers can work together to amplify their potential to serve the public g...
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Introducing Season 4 from 2019-09-25T09:53:55
A sneak peak of the new season of Azeem Azhar’s Exponential View podcast. This is the show that bridges the gap between two cultures: technology&science on the one hand, and business&society on the...
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Engineering Biology from 2019-08-14T11:56:43
Investors Carina Namih and Gigi Levy-Weiss come together with LabGenius founder James Field and science writer Oliver Morton to explore the opportunity of engineering biology to solve some of the w...
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Governance in the Age of AI from 2019-08-14T11:44:56
Leading AI researchers De Kai and Joanna Bryson join Azeem Azhar to discuss the state of governance and accountability in the age of AI.
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Disrupting the Insurance Industry with AI from 2019-08-14T11:41:09
Daniel Schreiber, Lemonade’s CEO and cofounder, joins Azeem to discuss how the company is using artificial intelligence to disrupt a legacy industry by realigning incentives with the values that cu...
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Beneficial Artificial Intelligence from 2019-06-26T08:39:11
Stuart Russell, coauthor of the standard text on AI, “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,” joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the progress of AI research and implementation and how to ensure the ...
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Surveillance Capitalism from 2019-06-19T10:24:17
“All digital infrastructure is used to shape human behavior in the direction that will be successful in the marketplace,” says Shoshana Zuboff, whose latest book,"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism...
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AI’s Near Future from 2019-06-12T11:12:17
Jürgen Schmidhuber is a recognized pioneer in the field of deep neural networks. His techniques form the basis of the modern AI systems used by billions of people daily on services like Google, Fac...
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The Autonomous Economy from 2019-06-05T08:53:37
W. Brian Arthur, one of the founders of the discipline of complexity economics, explores the impact artificial intelligence and automation will have on the economy.
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Disrupting Finance from 2019-05-29T08:49:59
Citigroup leading analyst Ronit Ghose, Lemonade Insurance founder and CEO Daniel Schreiber, and OakNorth Bank founder and CEO Rishi Khosla discuss the new possibilities that AI offers the finance i...
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Embedding AI in Business from 2019-05-22T10:10:56
Accenture’s Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Paul Daugherty, discusses how to successfully integrate AI in your business: Do not think of it as bolt-on tech, but rather, as an opportunity t...
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The Truth About Autonomy from 2019-05-15T10:33:40
“We’re not even close to developing fully driverless cars,” urges Duke University professor Missy Cummings, a former fighter pilot and the director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke. She explo...
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AI and the Genetic Revolution from 2019-05-08T10:06:44
Theoretical physicist and founder of Genomic Prediction, Michigan State University senior vice president Stephen Hsu discusses the extraordinary developments in predictive genomics and digs into th...
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When AI Meets Medicine from 2019-05-01T08:48:35
Eric Topol, the foremost expert in artificial intelligence in medicine, explores how the technology promises to revolutionize healthcare, making life better for both doctors and patients.
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The Innovation Economy from 2019-04-24T09:07:30
World-renowned economist Mariana Mazzucato discusses the role of the state as a value creator and how we can apply mission-oriented models of innovation to solve today’s burning challenges.
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Creating the Data Economy from 2019-04-17T09:04:59
AI researcher and entrepreneur Trent McConaghy discusses how blockchain will unlock the value of data by bridging the gap between the AI haves and have-nots and, in turn, helping to create the data...
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Designing Responsible AI from 2019-04-10T11:13
University of Bath professor Joanna Bryson, a leading AI researcher, discusses the opportunities and consequences of developing human-like computational intelligence.
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Investing in Disruptive Innovation from 2019-04-03T09:07:27
Investor Cathie Wood, one of Bloomberg’s 50 people who defined global business in 2018, discusses the five innovation platforms shaping our future and strategies for investing in them.
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Technology Diffusion and the Rise of Asia from 2019-02-06T18:20:11
Parag Khanna, a leading international relations expert, recently published the new book"The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century."He talks about the law of technology...
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Overcoming the Epistemic Crisis from 2019-01-30T18:17:22
Elif Shafak, an award-winning British-Turkish author and human rights activist, discusses the polarization of culture springing out of the foundations of the open internet, and the ways to tackle t...
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Regulating the Cyberspace from 2019-01-23T18:14:19
Marietje Schaake, a Dutch politician and member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands, talks to Azeem Azhar about the governance of cyberspace, the responsibility of technology comp...
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Making Sense of the Data-Rich World with Graph Databases from 2019-01-16T18:11:09
Emil Eifrem is the CEO and cofounder of Neo4j, the graph database platform powering some of the largest companies today. He is the creator of the property graph model, and he coined the term"graph ...
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The State of Artificial Intelligence from 2018-12-26T18:07:56
Jack Clark, the policy director at OpenAI, discusses the state of artificial intelligence development, the geopolitics of technology, and the implications of automation on society.
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Quantified Self, Data Ownership, and the Sociological Approach to Technology from 2018-12-19T18:04:44
Gina Neff, a senior research fellow and associate professor at the University of Oxford, explores technology development from a sociological perspective, as well as the implications of self-trackin...
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Renewable Energy, Climate Change, and Technology from 2018-12-12T22:47:25
Michael Liebreich, a leading global expert on clean energy and transportation, discusses the significance of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and IPCC's report, the importance of staying below ...
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Diplomacy in the Tech Age from 2018-12-05T22:30:26
Casper Klynge, the world's first tech ambassador, with a global mandate and staff in Copenhagen, Silicon Valley, and Beijing, assesses the current alignment between some of the largest technology c...
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Doughnut Economics, Rethinking Economics for the 21st Century from 2018-11-28T17:45:39
Kate Raworth, senior visiting research associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, discusses the Doughnut economics framework as the essence of rethinking economics for a world...
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Space Innovation and Fixing the Earth from 2018-11-21T17:42:23
Anousheh Ansari, the world's first female private space explorer and the first Iranian astronaut in space, discusses the ways space development could help us tackle climate change and pollution and...
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The Future of Public Service and Governance from 2018-11-14T17:39:22
Lisa Witter, an award-winning executive, a serial entrepreneur, and the cofounder and executive chairman of Apolitical, discusses reviving trust in government, the road map for building the public ...
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The Future of Work and Democracy in the Information Age from 2018-11-07T17:36:18
Matthew Taylor, the chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts, a UK organization committed to finding practical solutions to societal problems, discusses the well-being economy, the meaning of g...
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UBI, Automation, and Society in the U.S. from 2018-10-31T15:58:38
Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur and author who is standing for president in the 2020 U.S. election, discusses the core ideas behind his platform, why they are necessary, and how to get there.
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The Challenging Political Economy of Silicon Valley from 2018-10-24T17:28:47
Reid Hoffman dives deep into Silicon Valley's attitudes toward government, the role of the state in innovation, and maintaining techno-optimism.
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Scaling Innovation from 2018-10-17T17:25:12
Entrepreneur and investor Elad Gil talks about Silicon Valley, scaling companies from 10 to 10,000 employees, the state of blockchain, and how blockchain and artificial intelligence will overlap.
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AI, Warfare, and Global Security from 2018-10-10T17:20:12
Azeem Azhar and Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo, deputy director of the Digital Ethics Lab at the Oxford Internet Institute, unpack the state of cybersecurity and warfare, the complex symbiosis between gov...
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Entrepreneurs, the Market, and the State from 2018-10-03T17:16:50
Azeem Azhar speaks with venture capitalist Bill Janeway about the three-player game between the mission-driven state, financial speculators, and markets in the innovation economy. Are we stuck on t...
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China, an AI Superpower from 2018-09-26T17:07
Kai-Fu Lee, a VC investor, technology executive, and one of the most prominent figures in the Chinese internet sector and AI, discusses the Chinese government's techno-utilitarian approach to techn...
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Season 2 Intro: When Technology Meets Political Future from 2018-09-22T17:03:31
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View podcast is back, exploring the intersection of political economy and exponential technologies.
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Hacking Democracy from 2017-06-03T16:58:33
We’ve experienced a manifestation of new behaviors, driven by the underlying shifts around the democratic process: the transition from broadcast media to niche media moderated by dominant social me...
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The State of Machine Learning from 2017-05-26T16:53:04
Dr. Danny Lange, VP of AI and machine learning at Unity, discusses the role of machine learning technologies in revolutionizing the ways games are developed and monetized. Dr. Lange talks about the...
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Code as the Key Driver of Human Development from 2017-05-09T16:45:50
Author Philip Auerswald talks about “code” in a broader meaning of the word — it is the “how” of human productivity, the manner in which we create, refine, and implement the infrastructure that for...
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Universal Basic Income from 2017-05-05T16:31:27
Scott Santens, a writer and an advocate for universal basic income, talks about why he believes “citizen's salary” is a necessary measure for our societies to deal with tech unemployment by providi...
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How Music Could Take the Place of Drugs from 2017-04-28T19:06:12
Marko Ahtisaari, the CEO and cofounder of The Sync Project, presents ideas and projects born out of the vision that in the near future people will use non-drug modalities to heal, enhance well-bein...
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AI, Automation, and the Economy from 2017-03-04T15:26:44
Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world’s foremost thinkers on economic development, talks about how technology has improved the lives of countless humans. He explores how aut...
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Intimacy with Robots from 2017-02-25T15:17:18
Computer scientist Kate Devlin discusses robot intimacy and a new age of sex, relationships, and social life.
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The Future of Longevity from 2016-12-08T15:00:19
Philosopher and investor Dr. Shamil Chandaria investigates how we might live much longer lives and asks how we can make those lives more meaningful.
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A Survey of Technology from 2016-11-19T19:06:10
A wide-ranging conversation on technology with Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review. He touches on gene editing, Moore's Law, artificial intelligence, Facebook and fake news, and ...
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The Wealth of Humans from 2016-11-15T14:22:06
Ryan Avent, economics columnist at The Economist, and Azeem Azhar explore issues around digital technologies and how they will continue to exponentially change the relationship between capital and ...
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