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Pioneers of AI

Pioneers of AI is your guide to the latest technological frontier. Each week, host Rana el Kaliouby (AI scientist, investor, author, co-founder of Affectiva) is joined by the leading creators, critics, and thinkers behind mind-blowing technology and asks the important questions about how artificial intelligence is changing the way we live. As we venture together into the unknown, Pioneers is your tool to understanding and anticipating what comes next.

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00:54:55

Possible: Latanya Sweeney on AI, trust, and privacy

Pioneers of AI ·

2025/06/28

How does the rise of AI impact our sense of what’s true? How can humans maintain a degree of individual privacy and unlock the benefits of AI while mitigating potential harms? In this episode, Reid and Aria sit down with data privacy pioneer Latanya Sweeney, Professor of Government and Technology at Harvard; former Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission; and founder of Harvard’s Public Interest Tech Lab and Data Privacy Lab. They discuss the future of privacy protection,

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00:30:17

Elias Torres wants to reach unicorn status with just...

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2025/06/25

Founders and entrepreneurs today are racing to build companies with the leanest teams possible. Elias Torres, founder and CEO of Agency AI, a B2B company that delivers personalized, AI-powered customer service, is doing exactly that. His goal? To reach unicorn status with just 100 employees. Formerly the VP of Engineering at HubSpot and co-founder of Drift , Torres brings a direct and visionary mindset to everything he does. In this episode of Pioneers of AI, we talk with Torres not just about

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00:59:01

Possible: Jane Goodall on hope, AI, and the natural...

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2025/06/21

What would it look like to keep all living creatures in the loop on the development of new technology?Reid sat down for a wide-ranging solo discussion with Jane Goodall on that very subject – and more. They talked about how to maintain hope and focus on local impact in today’s often chaotic world, how technology – and AI in particular – might be helpful for conservation, and Jane’s global youth program, Roots & Shoots. Plus, the Jane Goodall institute shared audio from a cutting edge acoustic

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00:35:37

How to use AI to fight online image abuse, with...

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2025/06/18

AI is a powerful tool full of possibilities, but it also carries the potential for significant harm. One disturbing misuse is the creation of synthetic “revenge porn” through deepfakes, targeting anyone without consent. Breeze Liu, a survivor of this form of online image abuse, has dedicated her career to preventing it from happening to others. As an advocate, she played a key role in the passage of the Take It Down Act. As an entrepreneur, her company, Alecto AI, helps users remove deepfake

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00:56:38

Possible: Artful Intelligence, part 3, featuring Paul...

Pioneers of AI ·

2025/06/14

What does it take to create something the world has never seen before?In this final episode of Artful Intelligence, Reid Hoffman and Chris McLeod explore what it takes to spark a creative revolution with filmmaker Paul Trillo. Using OpenAI’s groundbreaking AI video generator, Sora, Paul directed the world’s first fully AI-generated music video. After gaining early access to Sora, Paul faced a massive creative challenge: How could he use an AI tool known for surreal, dream-like visuals to craft a

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00:37:23

How to build robots that can live alongside us, with...

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2025/06/11

Over the past several decades, the field of robotics has achieved remarkable milestones. Robots have been sent to Mars and to the deepest parts of the ocean. Cynthia Breazeal, a professor at the MIT Media Lab, believes there’s another frontier that robots should enter: our daily lives. As a pioneer in social robotics, Breazeal has devoted her career to developing socially and emotionally intelligent machines — robots that can serve as learning partners in classrooms and even assist in navigating

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00:49:15

Possible: Artful Intelligence, part 2, featuring...

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2025/06/07

How can you shape the future with AI to create the world you want to live in?Reid Hoffman and Chris McLeod explore this question with Elise Swopes, a trailblazing visual artist and educator blending AI with photography. Currently an evangelist for Adobe, Elise has been a creative force since the early days of Instagram, crafting surreal visuals for brands such as Adidas, McDonald’s, Casamigos, and Sony. But her journey hasn’t been without challenges. From online harassment to personal struggles,

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00:34:59

The Hidden Environmental Costs of a Single AI Prompt,...

Pioneers of AI ·

2025/06/04

You may have heard that AI is a bit of a resource hog. It requires so much electricity that scaling it could have a tremendous impact on the planet through the increase of emissions. So, what is the exact footprint you’ll leave the next time you type a prompt into your AI model of your choice? Dr. Sasha Luccioni, Climate Lead at the global AI firm Hugging Face, joins Pioneers of AI to break down each step in fascinating detail – all the manufacturing, compute power, and cost involved, starting

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00:32:58

Remarkable People: Deepak Chopra on how to Become...

Pioneers of AI ·

2025/05/31

Can AI and spirituality coexist? Deepak Chopra, world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation, challenges our perceptions by embracing artificial intelligence as a spiritual tool. In this mind-expanding conversation, Chopra reveals why he believes AI represents "the most powerful technology for expanding awareness in every area" and how it's revolutionizing our path to enlightenment. Discover how his own AI creation "Deepak Chopra.ai" serves as a digital guru, why the

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00:31:03

How AI helps women track hormonal health, with Marina...

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2025/05/28

Women’s health has historically been understudied and underfunded. And when it comes to women’s hormonal health, we’re missing some critical data. Marina Pavlovic Rivas is working to close that gap by leveraging AI. Her company, Eli Health, offers an at-home monitor that tracks hormonal levels through saliva, giving women access to health data that is typically difficult to access. In this episode, we explore the root causes of the women’s health gap, how AI can offer a new level of access to

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00:34:14

Rapid Response: The enterprise AI revolution is...

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2025/05/24

The buzz in Silicon Valley around AI agents has many asking: What’s real and what’s hype? Box’s co-founder and CEO, Aaron Levie, joins Rapid Response to help decipher between fact and fiction, taking listeners inside the fast-paced evolution of agents and its impact on the future of enterprise AI. Plus, Levie unpacks how AI is really being adopted in the workplace, what it takes to legitimately build an AI-first organization, and what political leaders across both parties misunderstand about

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00:42:01

Investing in the age of AI, part 2: Jeff Bussgang

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2025/05/21

Jeff Bussgang is a general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners and teaches entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. When he’s not helping his students become future founders, he’s writing books. His latest, The Experimentation Machine, is a guide for founders looking to leverage AI in their startups. In this episode, we surface practical strategies founders can implement today, explore what it means to build an AI-native company, and discuss how to scale without growing. Plus, we take a closer

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00:43:10

Investing in the age of AI, part 1: Vinod Khosla

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2025/05/14

Vinod Khosla is one of the leading investors and technologists of our time, consistently making Forbes’ Midas List (basically the Oscars for venture investors) as head of Khosla Ventures. He was an early innovator in the world of computer chips and an early investor in OpenAI, as well as backing successes like DoorDash, Stripe, and Headspace. We unpack Vinod’s investment thesis, his utopic vision for our future, and how he thinks founders in AI and beyond can build a winning strategy. Plus we dive

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00:30:57

The start-up fixing AI's errors, with Invisible...

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2025/05/07

Scaling a business means managing redundant tasks that take time and manpower. Through his company, Invisible Technologies, Francis Pedraza is looking to make that process easier by creating a digital assembly line with humans and AI working together. Now, ten years in, Invisible Technologies has worked with household names like OpenAI to train their models and DoorDash to streamline menu uploads. On this episode of Pioneers of AI, we dive into how this assembly line works, the importance of keeping

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00:37:34

Revisited: Dr. Joy Buolamwini wants AI to see everyone

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2025/04/30

This week, Pioneers of AI is bringing back one of our favorite and first episodes. It’s our conversation with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of Algorithmic Justice League and poet of code. In this episode, we explore how bias in data sets and algorithms, especially in facial recognition, is crucial to AI’s future, how Dr. Buolamwini uncovered the deep roots and impacts of bias in AI, and how to mitigate its harms.Learn more about Pioneers of AI: http://pioneersof.ai/ Follow Pioneers of AI on all

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00:34:04

Reid Hoffman on AI’s Environmental Impact and the...

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2025/04/23

One of the biggest debates in the AI revolution is its environmental impact – especially the vast amounts of energy we need to run AI, and the carbon emissions that could follow. Yet AI is also a super powerful tool for smarter, cleaner energy use around the world. Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and Inflection AI and friend of our show, joins to share his take. He weighs AI’s potential for environmental help and harm, depending how humans deploy it. We dive into the consumer’s role, what

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00:36:07

Preparing the next generation of AI scientists, with...

Pioneers of AI ·

2025/04/16

If you’re looking for outside-the-box innovation and boundless energy — look to the youth. Dr. Taniya Mishra and her company SureStart are doing just that as they train the next generation of AI innovators with pie-in-the sky ideas that could solve some of our biggest challenges. SureStart operates under the fundamental ethos that to build safer AI tools that can reach everyone, we need diverse technologists to lead us. In this episode of Pioneers of AI, we hear from Dr. Mishra about why diversity

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00:34:44

With Groq, Jonathan Ross is taking AI inference to...

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2025/04/09

Jonathan Ross and his company Groq are building AI chips focused on fast inference, increasing the speed with which AI models can process new information. But it’s not just about speed. Faster inference means that AI can deliver answers more quickly, and in turn save on energy and compute costs. In this episode of Pioneers of AI, we explore why Groq’s chips are making waves, how AI will create more jobs, and the importance of democratizing access to AI.Learn more about Pioneers of AI:

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00:29:48

From Abundance Summit: How AI is shaking up the...

Pioneers of AI ·

2025/04/02

AI start-ups are shaking up the world of venture funding and changing what investors decide to back. At this year’s Abundance Summit, Dr. Rana el Kaliouby moderated a discussion with leading AI investors Anj Midha, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and Dave Blundin, founder of Exponential Ventures. In this special live panel presentation, we dive into how AI start-ups are scaling fast with less capital, whether AI start-ups’ increasing valuations are justified, and where the value lies in the

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00:36:32

Your next manager could be powered by AI, with...

Pioneers of AI ·

2025/03/26

A great manager can make a person feel more satisfied and included at work, and set them on a great career trajectory. But a bad manager can cost a company lots of time and money, or even drive away valuable talent. Katherine von Jan is building a better manager, powered by AI. As CEO and co-founder of Tough Day, von Jan is building AI management tools based on the best leaders and latest research, tailored for a company's values and norms. Tough Day might handle basic questions about PTO, but it

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