There's No 'Better Time to Bet on Being An Entrepreneur'

There’s a disconnect between Silicon Valley’s AI promises (Abundance! AI for all!) and the public’s growing skepticism and anxiety about the technology’s effect on their lives, jobs and well being. Host Laurie Segall has talked a lot about agency in this podcast and what it looks like when this gap…

Inside Amazon’s Push for Sustainability

The technology that we use may be small, handheld, cloud-stored, but its environmental impact is big and growing more concerning with each update. AI has changed the conversation about tech and sustainability, making the two both at odds and in concert with one another. If you're leading the sustai…

‘We’re Living in a World of Content Abundance’

If you don’t have your own newsletter (what are you even doing?!), your inbox is probably packed with them. In a world of bifurcated media, billionaire journalism moguls, and misinformed doomscrolling, the humble email newsletter has become the information-delivery tool dejour. But can a newsletter…

Deepfakes are Coming for Your Job

One in six job applicants is fake. Their resume, their identity, even their face for zoom interviews are all made up. What does this mean for job seekers? What does this mean for employers? And what does this mean for national security? "Your HR recruiter is the front of your security perimeter," s…

Dating and Intimacy in the Age of AI

Dating Apps overwhelming serve young people — A generation who has grown up on the internet, whose very lives are dictated by tech, whose still navigating a post-pandemic period of isolation, and whose mere desire for a relationship is ‘cringe.’ How do you meet this audience where they are? For Hin…

How Do We Want AI to Influence Human Creativity?

There is a lot of doom and gloom with AI, particularly with how it could affect that uniquely human output - creativity. AI has already infiltrated the art world, but Alex Reben believes it’s for the good if we don’t relinquish our control. The artist, roboticist, and co-founder and CTO of Phyzify …

Just How Big Will YouTube Get?

YouTube has gotten huge. Not just because it's been number one in streaming for the past three years, but because it's on the big screen, in our living rooms, and consuming most of America's attention. How much bigger can YouTube get and what does it mean for the entertainment industry, for media, …

The Future of the Creator Economy, With Samir Chaudry

Samir Chaudry is one of the original creators on YouTube. His channel, Colin and Samir, has made him and his co-host Colin Rosenblum some of the most influential voices in the creator economy. In this conversation, recorded at YouTube’s Made On event, Laurie Segall and Samir talk about what it’s re…

The Unspoken AI Catastrophe: Death By a Thousand Cuts

There’s a lot of concern right now about the big scary ways AI could take control of the human race, or extinct us all together. But computational social scientist Sandra Matz argues the human deterioration by AI is more subtle than that — and already happening. Sandra Matz studies the cross sectio…

Everything You Need to Know About AI in the Classroom

If you have kids in school — or soon will, or know someone who does — you probably have questions about AI in the classroom. Should schools be using it? What are the upsides? What are the downsides? And who’s actually getting to decide? New York Times tech reporter Natasha Singer has spent over a d…