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Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View

How will the future unfold? What is the impact of AI and other exponential technologies on business & society? Join Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponential View, on his quest to demistify the era of exponential change.

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40:09

The Drive to Decarbonize

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/04/15

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 challenges that remain.

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38:06

Inside Alphabet’s X: Nurturing Radical Creativity

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/04/08

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 creativity and nurtures the audacity to fail.

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38:19

The Next Trillion-Dollar Market

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/04/01

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 science.

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35:24

Technology Companies and the New Recession

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/03/30

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 particular, in the short and long term.

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40:35

Science Fights the Coronavirus

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/03/24

How effective is science at tackling COVID-19, and how will the pandemic evolve next?

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34:35

The Redecentralized Web

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/03/18

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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34:04

Welfare in the Exponential Age

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/03/11

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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42:04

How Humans Judge Machines

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/03/04

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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30:18

Can Airtable Democratize Software Development?

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/02/26

Airtable founder Howie Liu and Azeem Azhar discuss what it means to create a new $100 billion market category.

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42:00

Geopolitics, Technology, and Risk

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/02/19

Geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how the forces of technology are shaping and threatening global stability.

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32:29

Surviving a Crisis During the Techlash

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/02/12

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 top of their reputation in an era of instantaneous news and activist employees.

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35:47

Leading a Technology Giant During the Techlash

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/02/05

Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how regulation can advance the technology industry and innovation.

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39:11

Superintelligence Already Rules the World

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2020/01/22

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 Azhar in this week’s episode. Runciman is professor of politics at Cambridge University and host of the “Talking Politics” podcast. He and Azeem discuss what this reframing of artificial intelligence can teach us about navigating the hurdles it presents.

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34:07

Building Unicorns in Europe

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2019/12/18

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 Valley, and how some of Europe’s most successful startups were created.

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31:48

The State of Nanotechnology

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2019/12/11

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 revolution that will change our lives.

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27:14

Cybersecurity in the Age of AI

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2019/12/04

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 private companies alike.

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36:08

Growth and the Energy Transition with Vaclav Smil

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2019/11/27

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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30:36

AI, Accountability, and Power

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2019/11/20

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 development of artificial intelligence, and how tech workers are working to change their industry for the better.

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35:30

Technology and the New World of Work

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2019/11/13

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 Labor to Work)," which explores how technology is unbundling the Fordist compact between corporation and worker and forcing a new employment paradigm for the digital age.

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36:43

How Free-Market Economists Got It Wrong

Azeem Azhar"s Exponential View ·

2019/11/06

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 societies and weakened democracies. Appelbaum is the author of the new book, "The Economists’ Hour," a deep dive into the history of ideas that formed capitalism, as we know it.

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