U.S. Senators Grilled Social Media CEOs. Will Anything Change?
Was it political progress, or just political theater? The recent Senate hearing with social media CEOs led to astonishing moments — including Mark Zuckerberg’s public apology to families who lost chil...
13 Feb 202425min
Taylor Swift is Not Alone: The Deepfake Nightmare Sweeping the Internet
Over the past year, a tsunami of apps that digitally strip the clothes off real people has hit the market. Now anyone can create fake non-consensual sexual images in just a few clicks. With cases prol...
1 Feb 202442min
Can Myth Teach Us Anything About the Race to Build Artificial General Intelligence? With Josh Schrei
We usually talk about tech in terms of economics or policy, but the casual language tech leaders often use to describe AI — summoning an inanimate force with the powers of code — sounds more... magica...
18 Jan 202435min
How Will AI Affect the 2024 Elections? with Renee DiResta and Carl Miller
2024 will be the biggest election year in world history. Forty countries will hold national elections, with over two billion voters heading to the polls. In this episode of Your Undivided Attention, t...
21 Dec 202347min
2023 Ask Us Anything
You asked, we answered. This has been a big year in the world of tech, with the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence, acceleration of neurotechnology, and continued ethical missteps of socia...
30 Nov 202335min
The Promise and Peril of Open Source AI with Elizabeth Seger and Jeffrey Ladish
As AI development races forward, a fierce debate has emerged over open source AI models. So what does it mean to open-source AI? Are we opening Pandora’s box of catastrophic risks? Or is open-sourcing...
21 Nov 202338min
A First Step Toward AI Regulation with Tom Wheeler
On Monday, Oct. 30, President Biden released a sweeping executive order that addresses many risks of artificial intelligence. Tom Wheeler, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, sha...
2 Nov 202335min
No One is Immune to AI Harms with Dr. Joy Buolamwini
In this interview, Dr. Joy Buolamwini argues that algorithmic bias in AI systems poses risks to marginalized people. She challenges the assumptions of tech leaders who advocate for AI “alignment” and ...
26 Okt 202347min
