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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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303 - Guest: Virginia Dignum, Responsible AI Expert,...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/04/06

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .AI runs not just broadly across human interest, but deeply. And at every level it seems to create paradoxes. How can it be useful without power; how can it be safe with power. We want it to take over jobs, but still leave us with meaning and purpose. We deny it the possibility of becoming sentient, but how can we trust something that lacks compassion? My guest today has written a whole book on these paradoxes. Calling from Sweden is Virginia

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302 - Guest: Ricky Sethi, Artificial Metacognition...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/03/30

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .Have you ever thought about your thoughts? About what or how you’re thinking? It gets real meta real fast, doesn’t it? That’s called metacognition, and humans and certain other creatures do it. But what about AI? We’re coming back to the interview with Ricky Sethi, Professor of Computer Science at Fitchburg State University, and researcher into artificial metacognition, or whether and how machines can think about thinking. Ricky’s research spans

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301 - Guest: Ricky Sethi, Artificial Metacognition...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/03/23

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .Have you ever thought about your thoughts? About what or how you’re thinking? It gets real meta real fast, doesn’t it? That’s called metacognition, and humans and certain other creatures do it. But what about AI? Can it think about thinking? Here to help us understand this whole thing is artificial metacognition researcher Ricky Sethi. He is Professor of Computer Science at Fitchburg State University, Director of Research for the Madsci Network,

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300 - Guest: Mark Peres, Civic Entrepreneur, part 2

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/03/16

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .Because AI touches our lives down to our core where our emotions and subconscious reside, we need to be touched with the important lessons that our fellow humans wish to communicate about AI through vehicles like art, poetry, and, in the case of today’s guest, fiction. Mark Peres is a professor, author, and civic innovator with decades of experience teaching leadership and ethics at Johnson & Wales University. He’s just published The Accord,

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299 - Guest: Mark Peres, Civic Entrepreneur, part 1

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/03/09

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .We shouldn’t learn the important lessons of AI through just exposition, through just descriptions, explanations, lessons, and textbooks. But because AI touches our lives down to our core where our emotions and subconscious reside, we need to be similarly touched with the important lessons that our fellow humans wish to communicate about AI through art, poetry, and, in the case of today’s guest, fiction. Mark Peres is a professor, author, and

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298 - Guest: Holly Elmore, AI Pause Advocate, part 2

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/03/02

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .In 2023 a global movement called Pause AI started, advocating for a pause in the development of powerful AI, and on the show we have its co-founder, Holly Elmore. Their website says “We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and strong public buy-in.” Holly is the founder of the Pause AI US group, and has organized protests

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297 - Guest: Holly Elmore, AI Pause Advocate, part 1

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/02/23

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296 - Guest: Maya Ackerman, Creative AI Pioneer, part 2

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/02/16

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .One of the great wounds people are experiencing around AI is in creativity. Look at the writers’ and actors’ strikes, for example. I continue talking about this very sensitive subject with Maya Ackerman, author of the new book Creative Machines: AI, Art, and Us, which tackles it head on, full of emotion, vulnerability, and poetry. Maya is the CEO and co-founder of Wave AI, and professor of Computer Science at Santa Clara University. She

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295 - Guest: Maya Ackerman, Creative AI Pioneer, part 1

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/02/09

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . One of the great wounds people are experiencing around AI is in creativity. Look at the writers’ and actors’ strikes, for example. Here to talk about this very sensitive subject is Maya Ackerman, author of the new book Creative Machines: AI, Art, and US, which tackles it head on, full of emotion, vulnerability, and poetry. Maya is the CEO and co-founder of Wave AI, and professor of Computer Science at Santa Clara University. She completed

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294 - Special: The Future of Work

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/02/02

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .The fear, uncertainty, and doubt around the future of work has reached epidemic proportions. We'll attempt to shed some light and provide some relief with data, questions, and informed speculation on the topic. How is the generation of content going to evolve, and what's awaiting us in robotics? Who will make the decisions about the future workplace, and what will happen to creatives in marketing and other fields? All this plus our usual look at

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293 - Guests: José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/01/26

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .I am talking with José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson about AI in postsecondary education, because they are authors of the new book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. José is leader of the Bowen Innovation Group, consulting on innovation in higher education and was the 11th president of Goucher College. He has held leadership roles at Stanford, the University of Southampton, Georgetown, Miami University, and

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292 - Guests: José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/01/19

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . After last week’s exploration of AI in secondary education it’s time to look at how it’s landing in the universities, and so I am talking with José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, authors of the brand new book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. José leads the Bowen Innovation Group, consulting on innovation in higher education and was the 11th president of Goucher College. He has held leadership roles at

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291 - Guest: Jeff Riley, Former Commissioner of...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/01/12

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .What’s going on with getting AI education into America’s classrooms? We're finding out from Jeff Riley, former Commissioner of Education for the state of Massachusetts and founder of a new organization – Day of AI, started by MIT’s Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education institute. And they are mounting a campaign called Responsible AI for America’s Youth, which is now running across all 50 states and will run an event called

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290 - Guest: Jeff Riley, Former Commissioner of...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2026/01/05

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .What’s going on with getting AI education into America’s classrooms? We’re going to find out from Jeff Riley, former Commissioner of Education for the state of Massachusetts and founder of a new organization – Day of AI, started by MIT’s Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education institute. And they are mounting a campaign called Responsible AI for America’s Youth, which is now running across all 50 states and will run an event called

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289 - Special Panel: AI 2025 Retrospective/2026...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/12/29

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .It's that time to visit the - ghosts? - of AI past, present, and future, in our traditional retrospective/predictions episode. Forming the panel are Dan Turchin, CEO of PeopleReign, the AI platform automating HR and host of the “AI and the Future of Work” podcast. And Richard Foster-Fletcher, the Founder and Executive Chair of MKAI, the inclusive Artificial Intelligence Community, and leader of the MKAI Centre for Digital Trust and host of the

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288 - Guest: Suzanne Gildert, Quantum Entrepreneur,...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/12/22

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .What is consciousness? That’s a profound question that many would say is unanswerable. And how could you make artificial consciousness? That’s a more profound question that many would say is impossible. We are talking with Suzanne Gildert, founder of Nirvanic, a Quantum-AI research company, who is not just talking about consciousness, she’s doing something about it. She is a prolific inventor with more than 60 US patents in quantum computing,

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287 - Guest: Suzanne Gildert, Quantum Entrepreneur,...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/12/15

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .What is consciousness? That’s a profound question that many would say is unanswerable. And how could you make artificial consciousness? That’s a more profound question that many would say is impossible. Tackling both of those head-on is Suzanne Gildert, founder of Nirvanic, a Quantum-AI research company. She’s not just talking about consciousness, she’s doing something about it. She is a prolific inventor with more than 60 US patents in quantum

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286 - Guest: Craig Kaplan, Artificial...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/12/08

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .What if artificial superintelligence - ASI - could be made both more safe and more profitable? I'm talking with Craig Kaplan, who has the website superintelligence.com, about his concept of "democratic AI." Craig is CEO and founder of iQ Company, focused on AGI and ASI. He also founded and ran PredictWallStreet, a financial services firm which used AI to power a top hedge fund. Craig is a former visiting professor in computer science at the

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285 - Guest: Craig Kaplan, Artificial...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/12/01

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .What if artificial superintelligence - ASI - could be made both more safe and more profitable? Returning to the show after a year is Craig Kaplan, talking about how "democratic AI" can do that. Craig, who has the website superintelligence.com, is CEO and founder of iQ Company, focused on AGI and ASI. He also founded and ran PredictWallStreet, a financial services firm which used AI to power a top hedge fund. Craig is a visiting professor in

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284 - Guests: Bruce Schneier & Nathan Sanders, AI in...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/11/24

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .How should AI change democracy? That’s the topic of Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship, and I am continuing my talk with its authors. Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and the bestselling author of fourteen books, including Data and Goliath and A Hacker’s Mind. Nathan Sanders is a data scientist who has served in fellowships and the Massachusetts legislature and

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