The Risks of Artificial Relationships - Sherry Turkle with Nicholas Thompson
AI wants to be your friend. And your therapist. And your lover. It’s not an entirely new offer, author and MIT professor Sherry Turkle reminds us, but it’s one that’s grown more dire as AI has improve...
30 Sep 57min
The Case Against the AI Bubble - Azeem Azhar with Nicholas Thompson
Among the many eye-popping numbers of the AI industry—from trillions in investments to billions in spending—one stands out: $0 in profit among leading AI companies. According to Bloomberg, “never befo...
23 Sep 1h 5min
The Future of Economic Power - Circle’s Jeremy Allaire with Nicholas Thompson
Technological waves often arrive with a promise. The internet was going to democratize information. Blockchain was going to decentralize power. Now, AI's boosters say it will bring unprecedented prosp...
16 Sep 1h 9min
The Race to Superintelligence - Richard Socher with Nicholas Thompson
As AI’s capabilities improve, reports of “rogue” agents and misaligned systems are becoming more frequent. In response, some activists, academics, and politicians have called for a pause in developmen...
9 Sep 1h 8min
How to Get Hired in the AI Era - Clara Shih with Nicholas Thompson
For years, tech CEOs have promised that AI will take on the menial, repetitive tasks that have long been a part of office life. Typically, those tasks are assigned to younger, less experienced workers...
2 Sep 50min
Kara Swisher on What Silicon Valley Is Getting Right—and Wrong—in AI
Kara Swisher has done a bit of everything. She’s covered the rise of Silicon Valley’s tech giants, founded and sold her own startup publication, and dabbled in Hollywood, with appearances in films suc...
26 Aug 49min
How AI Could Upend Global Politics - Ian Bremmer with Nicholas Thompson
AI may have leveled the playing field in coding and app development, but it’s also put potentially dangerous tools in reach of nefarious actors. Now, empowered by AI, state-backed intelligence agencie...
19 Aug 1h 4min
Writing in the Age of AI - Gemini Notebook’s Steven Johnson with Nicholas Thompson
Steven Johnson spent decades figuring out the best ways to turn his research into words on the page. Now, he’s adapting those methods for Gemini Notebook, Google’s AI-powered interactive bibliography....
12 Aug 1h 2min
