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Artificial Intelligence and You

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What is AI? How will it affect your life, your work, and your world?

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270 - Guest: Christof Koch, Cognitive Scientist, part 1

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/08/18

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .As my guest today says, "How is it that we, a piece of furniture of the universe like a rock or a star or a tree, can love or hate or see or hear?" What, in other words, makes us conscious, and what does that mean? He is the cognitive scientist Christof Koch, known for his work exploring the substrate of consciousness in humans, animals, and machines. He is the author of more than 350 peer-reviewed publications and five books, the latest of which

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269 - Guest: De Kai, Pioneer of Google Translate, part 2

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/08/11

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ ."We are in the privileged - or unfortunate - situation of being the last generation of humans to be parenting AIs. All the future generations of AIs are going to be parented mainly by AIs. And so even more than with our human children and grandchildren, we have one shot at raising this next generation correctly." I am talking with De Kai, a pioneering professor of AI who built the web’s first global online language translator that spawned Google

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268 - Guest: De Kai, Pioneer of Google Translate, part 1

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/08/04

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . As AI becomes more and more powerful, what is our responsibility, collectively? I am joined by De Kai, a pioneering professor of AI who built the web’s first global online language translator that spawned Google Translate and Microsoft Bing Translator. And he has answered those questions with his new book, Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future. De Kai was honored by the Association for Computational Linguistics as one of its 17

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267 - Joint Episode with the London Futurists Podcast

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/07/28

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Welcome to a joint episode with the London Futurists podcast, hosted by David Wood and Calum Chace, who have both been individual guests on this show in the past. David is chair of the London Futurists and named by T3 as one of the 100 most influential people in technology. He is author of the books, “The Singularity Principles: Anticipating and managing cataclysmically disruptive technologies” and more recently, “The Death of Death.” Calum is

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266 - Guest: Kate Hayles, Literary and Technological...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/07/21

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .It’s more important than ever to define just what we mean by words like intelligence, consciousness, and thinking. Here to help us is Kate Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA and the James B. Duke Professor Emerita from Duke University. Her research focuses on the relations of literature, science and technology, and her books include Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational, Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious, and

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265 - Guest: Kate Hayles, Literary and Technological...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/07/14

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .It’s more important than ever to define just what we mean by words like intelligence, consciousness, and thinking. Here to help us is Kate Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the relations of literature, science and technology, and a new theory of mind—what she calls an integrated cognitive framework (ICF)—that includes the meaning-making practices of lifeforms from

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264 - Guest: Dagan Shani, Filmmaker, part 2

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/07/07

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .We get at this AI thing from many different angles: it changes us in so many ways that we're not going to understand it through just a technical discussion. So today we look at what it means to be human in the AI age through the eyes of Dagan Shani, an independent filmmaker who has focused on the risks associated with AI through movies that evoke our emotions. His documentary Don't Look Up - The Documentary: The Case for AI as an Existential

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263 - Guest: Dagan Shani, Filmmaker, part 1

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/06/30

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262 - Guests: Ja-Nae Duane and Steve Fisher,...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/06/23

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .How do you deal personally, and organizationally, with exponential change? That’s the subject of a new book, Super Shifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, And Work In The Age Of Intelligence, and both of its authors are here. Dr. Ja-Naé Duane is a behavioral scientist who has worked with companies such as PWC, Saudi Aramco, AIG, and Deloitte. She is a member of the Loomis Council at the Stimson Center, collaborator with the National Institute of

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261 - Guests: Ja-Nae Duane and Steve Fisher,...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/06/16

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260 - Guest: Nada Sanders, Global Business Futurist,...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/06/09

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .What does the ideal integration of humans and technology look like in business in the future? Nada Sanders calls that a “Humachine.” She is a thought leader and expert in forecasting and human-technology integration, has an MBA and a PhD in supply chain management, and is an expert in digital transformation. She is author of seven books, including The Humachine: Humankind, Machines, and the Future of Enterprise, and is a Fellow of the Decision

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259 - Guest: Nada Sanders, Global Business Futurist,...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/06/02

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258 - Guests: Emily Bender & Alex Hanna, Authors, part 2

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/05/26

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .I am talking with Drs. Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, authors of the upcoming book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want, and also co-hosts of the live podcast Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. Emily is well known for coining the term “stochastic parrots” in a 2021 paper as a label for generative AI. She is a linguistics professor and director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at the University of Washington

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257 - Guests: Emily Bender & Alex Hanna, Authors, part 1

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/05/19

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .When people take a unipolar position that AI is going to be wonderful, or terrible, or inconsequential, they end up painting themselves into a corner where that’s the only story they can allow themselves to express, and that obscures the truth. So for us to do our due diligence in exploring the dimensions of AI, today I am talking with Drs. Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, authors of the upcoming book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and

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256 - Guest: Diane Gutiw, AI Research Center Lead,...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/05/12

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .How to manage the integration of AI at scale into the enterprise is the territory of today's guest, Diane Gutiw, Vice President and leader of the AI research center at the global business consultancy CGI. She holds a PhD in Medical Information Technology Management and has led collaborative strategy design and implementation planning for advanced analytics and AI for large organizations in the energy and utilities, railway, and government

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255 - Guest: Diane Gutiw, AI Research Center Lead,...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/05/05

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254 - Guest: Seth Baum, Global Catastrophic Risks...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/04/28

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .We're talking about catastrophic risks, something that can be depressing for people who haven’t confronted these things before, and so I have had to be careful in talking about those with most audiences. Yet the paradox is that the more you do look at those risks, the more that effect fades, and that’s a good thing, because my guest today is someone who takes on the onerous task of thinking about and doing something about those risks every day

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253 - Guest: Seth Baum, Global Catastrophic Risks...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/04/21

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252 - Special: AI in Customer Service

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/04/14

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .AI will transform customer service. Large language models will provide superior customer interaction, whether by web or by telephone. They’ll answer instantly, always be polite and full of energy, talk with the customer in every known language, make all the information that the customer wants out of the company personalized and accessible to that customer. All of this is provably achievable. So where is it? Has your customer service experience

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251 - Special: AI's Existential Threat and Hope:...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/04/07

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .What if… aliens came to visit the Earth? And what does that have to do with AI? I’ve deconstructed two of my TEDx talks on this show, but before both of those I did one in 2017, and here I take that one apart. Why didn’t I do this before? It seemed a bit… out there. Too sensationalist. Making claims that were too extravagant. But when I was looking at it again recently, I thought, we’ve actually caught up with what I was saying there, those

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