A.I. Doomsday with Tristan Harris
After Kara and Nayeema review the week’s A.I. news, including Sam Altman’s Senate testimony and the viral AI-generated image of the Pentagon in flames, we turn to Tristan Harris — co-founder of the Ce...
25 Touko 20231h 14min
Lilly Singh on Making It on Social Media — and Hollywood
After an update on efforts to rein in TikTok from Montana to Washington DC, we turn to Lilly Singh, a creator who rose to fame in the early generation of YouTube stars and has since made the jump to l...
22 Touko 202356min
Will Elon Musk Turn Twitter Into Yahoo Mail?
Twitter rose to prominence as a global public square that helped enable the Arab Spring, but Elon Musk has changed all that. The platform is complying with governments more, and a murky algorithm and ...
18 Touko 202351min
How Will Lina Khan and the FTC Tackle AI?
After a discussion about Elon and the new “Chief Twit,” Linda Yaccarino, we turn to a woman who has refused to meet with Musk: Lina Khan. The Chair of the Federal Trade Commission has tech giants from...
15 Touko 202358min
Watergate to Trump and Today’s GOP: A Throughline
From the verdict in Trump’s sexual assault case to the Santos indictment and the Supreme Court saga, scandal is rife in Washington. Today we turn to the OG: Watergate, as examined in the new HBO serie...
11 Touko 202356min
Making Relationships Work (or Not) with Maggie Smith
Relationships are hard. When do you know it’s time to marry? When do you know it’s time to break up? We get inside those questions with Kara, Nayeema and our guest today: Maggie Smith. The poet’s vira...
8 Touko 202359min
Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike
After a look inside a writers' strike that could upend Hollywood, Kara and Nayeema turn to today’s guest: writer and comedian Roy Wood Jr. Fresh off his performance at the White House Correspondents D...
4 Touko 202359min
Snap’s Evan Spiegel on AI, AR, and – yes – TikTok
The Snap CEO talks about the challenges facing the company’s AI chatbot, how augmented reality glasses could change how we compute the real world and why a TikTok ban would “help” Snap. You can foll...
1 Touko 202357min
