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

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/11/17

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 talking today 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. He is a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and

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282 - Guest: Gerry White, Dean of Academic...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/11/10

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .What's really going on in classrooms with AI right now? I'm talking with Gerry White, a teacher, technologist, writer, and lifelong learner who has spent two decades at the forefront of education and technology integration. Gerry is the Dean of Academic Technology at ECPI University in Virginia and the founder of MyTutorPlus, an AI-powered tutoring platform designed to personalize education for learners of all ages. From building over 70 apps to

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281 - Guest: Gerry White, Dean of Academic...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/11/03

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .We're continuing to focus on AI in education because it's so pivotal to the future of the human race. What's really going on in classrooms with AI right now? We are learning that from Gerry White, a teacher, technologist, writer, and lifelong learner who has spent two decades at the forefront of education and technology integration. Gerry is the Dean of Academic Technology at ECPI University in Virginia and the founder of MyTutorPlus, an

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280 - Guest: Alyson King, Researcher in Academic...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/10/27

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .Students using AI to cheat on homework - or being inaccurately flagged as cheating - falls under the heading of 'academic integrity,' so I am talking with Alyson King, Professor in Political Science at Ontario Tech University in Canada, and editor of the new book, “Artificial Intelligence, Pedagogy and Academic Integrity,” containing 12 contributors’ thoughts and research on the problem of maintaining academic integrity in a world where AI can

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279 - Guest: Alyson King, Researcher in Academic...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/10/20

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278 - Guest: Becky Keene, AI in Education Author

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/10/13

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .We are again focusing on AI in education, because that is really where the rubber meets the road for nearly every issue in AI and where we need to get it right, because that’s where we’re training the generation that will save the world. You could be very pessimistic about that, but you can also be very optimistic about that, and one person who is optimistic is Becky Keene, an educator, author, and speaker focused on innovative teaching and

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277 - Guest: Michael Gerlich, Adaptability Thought...

Artificial Intelligence and You ·

2025/10/06

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .As we use AI more and more as a critical assistant, what might that be doing to our critical thinking? Professor Michael Gerlich has published his research in the paper “AI Tools In Society: Impacts On Cognitive Offloading And The Future Of Critical Thinking” in the journal Societies. He showed that younger participants “exhibited higher dependence on AI tools and lower critical thinking scores compared to older participants.” That’s the sort of

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