PODCAST · technology
The Robots Are Coming
by Ken and Michael
It was only recently that the impact and challenges of automation have entered the mainstream conversation. Automation is no longer the Terminators’ and Transformers’ of science fiction movies or dystopian novels. It’s already here and radically changing how we work, live, think and even feel.We’re eager to bridge the gap of awareness between our bubble and the rest of the country by sharing our insights into how the invisible hand of technology plays a role underneath the surface of modern society.
Episodes
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S2E10 The Robots Are Coming - Frank Liu, MS
Subscribe to The Robots Are Coming: https://bit.ly/3dVlFEd In this episode of our podcast, I have the pleasure of speaking with Frank Liu, an MD/PhD candidate who is seeking to move beyond the boundaries separating scientific research and clinical practice. Through the Medical Scientist Training...
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S2E9 The Robots Are Coming - David Zapolsky
In this episode of our podcast, I speak with David Zapolsky, general counsel of Amazon about our future.
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S2E8 The Robots Are Coming - Tom Godden
Subscribe to The Robots Are Coming: https://bit.ly/3dVlFEd Read his latest work today: https://aws.amazon.com/executive-insights/enterprise-strategists/thomas-godden/#:~:text=Tom%20Godden%20is%20an%20Enterprise,Amazon%20Web%20Services%20(AWS). _____ In this episode of our podcast, we have the...
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S2E7 The Robots Are Coming - Robert Rooderkerk
Subscribe to The Robots Are Coming: https://bit.ly/3dVlFEd Read his latest work today: https://hbr.org/2023/02/why-retailers-fail-to-adopt-advanced-data-analytics _____ In this episode of our podcast, we have the pleasure of speaking with Robert Rooderkerk, an Associate Professor of Operations...
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S2E6 The Robots Are Coming - Lan Cao
In this podcast episode, I interview Professor Lan Cao, author of Monkey Bridge and a Yale Law School and Mount Holyoke College graduate! We talked about her semi-autobiographical story of a mother and daughter who left Vietnam to come to the U.S.
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S2E5 The Robots Are Coming - Brandan Ward
Brandan Ward is the co-founder of Worldie (worldiebrand.com), Captain with the Unietd States Air Force, Summer Associate from Hillspire, Major in the Georgia Air National Guard, and Summer Associate with Cooley LLP. He is also leading his own startup on sustainable shoes for kids. In this…
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S2E4 The Robots Are Coming - Eric A. Posner
Eric A. Posner is the Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair at the University of Chicago Law School. His research interests include antitrust law, financial regulation, international law, and constitutional law. Professor Posner is a...
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S2E3 The Robots Are Coming - Linwei Xin
Linwei Xin is the associate professor of Operations Management at the UChicago Booth School of Business. His primary research is on inventory and supply chain management anddesigning models and algorithms for organizations to effectively "match supply to demand" in various contexts with...
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S2E1 The Robots Are Coming - Mark Moyar
Dr. Mark Moyar joined Hillsdale College in July 2021 as the William P. Harris Chair of Military History. From 2018 to 2019, he served as the Director of the Office of Civilian-Military Cooperation at USAID, and previously served as the Director of the Project on Military and Diplomatic History at...
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The Robots Are Coming #26 - Michelle Rode-Smith
Michelle Rode-Smith is the mother of Seth Smith (a UC Berkeley student slain by Tony Walker), a teacher, and an activist. In this episode, we discuss Seth's posthumous degree, an Economics and History Fellowship, Seth's Law, a more proactive police presence in Berkeley, and more publicity for Seth.
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The Robots Are Coming #25 - Adriana Robertson
Adriana Z. Robertson is the Donald N. Pritzker Professor of Business Law at the University of Chicago Law School. In this episode, we discuss four of Professor Robertson's papers: Passive in Name Only: Delegated Management and 'Index' Investing, Noisy Factors, Advisers by Another Name, and The...
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The Robots Are Coming #24 - Jonathan Masur
Jonathan Masur is the John P. Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, as well as the Director of the Watchell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Behavioral Law Program and the Finance and Economics organization. In this episode, we discuss his book Happiness and the Law (University of...
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The Robots Are Coming #23 - Joshua Macey
Joshua C. Macey is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School, specializing in environmental law, energy law, bankruptcy, and the regulation of financial institutions. In this episode, we talk about Grid Reliability Through Clean Energy
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The Robots Are Coming #22 - Josh Avratin
Josh Avratin is a Clinical Professor in the Kirkland and Ellis Corporate Lab. Before joining the clinical faculty, Professor Avratin practiced in the debt finance groups of Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago and Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston and served as corporate counsel to Groupon, Inc. In this...
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The Robots Are Coming #21 - Adam Chilton
Adam Chilton is a Professor of Law and the Walter Mandar Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. Currently, Professor Chilton is working on a documentary called Basti on the story of the slums in India. In this episode, we talk about international law, public policy in India's...
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The Robots Are Coming #20 - William H. J. Hubbard
William H. J. Hubbard is the Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and editor of the Journal of Legal Studies. He teaches courses in civil procedure and has been an organizer for the Law and Economics Workshop. In this episode, we talk about Professor Hubbard's 2015 paper The...
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The Robots Are Coming #18 - Shuo Chen
Shuo Chen is a General Partner at IOVC, where she invests in early stage startups in Silicon Valley with a focus on future of work and enterprise/SaaS. She is also Faculty at UC Berkeley, where she teaches entrepreneurship. In this episode, we talk about early stage startups, California's Mental...
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The Robots Are Coming #15 - Geoffrey Stone
Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone joined the faculty of UChicago Law in 1973, after serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. He later served as Dean of the Law School (1987-1994) and…
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The Robots Are Coming #16 - Kathy Timpte
Kathy Timpte is a former professor and New Testament scholar specializing in Markan studies. Today, she serves as the Director University and Young Adult ministries at a local Presbyterian church. We discuss the New Testament, Markan studies, and its relation to the future of technology.
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The Robots Are Coming #14 - Dan Sachs
Dan Sachs serves as the executive director of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago. The author of The Million Dollar Greeting, his experience as a seasoned business executive and entrepreneur in the hospitality industry provides more insight into...
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The Robots Are Coming #13 - Professor Emily Underwood
Professor Emily Underwood is the Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Bluhm-Helfand Director of the Innovation Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. She is also one of the supervisors of the Innovation Fund Associates program, an interdisciplinary group of students and post-docs from...
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The Robots Are Coming #12 - Ravi Patel and Brian Xu
Both Brian and Ravi are team members as a part of our new ambitious project -- Demodraft -- a platform that allows users to discover, fund, and support other users before they decide to run for office. They can let their ideas flourish content, such as forums and polls. Ravi is a rising Sophomore...
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The Robots Are Coming #11 - Dr. Roland Vogl
Dr. Roland Vogl is a scholar, lawyer and entrepreneur who, after more than fifteen years of academic and professional experience, has developed a strong expertise in legal informatics, intellectual property law and innovation. Currently, he is Executive Director of the Stanford Program in Law,...
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The Robots Are Coming #10 - Professor Mark Lemley
Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and as affiliated faculty in the Symbolic Systems program. He...
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The Robots Are Coming #9 - Dr. Jermaine Johnson
Dr. Jermaine Johnson is a community activist, avid volunteer and public servant who will bring a new era to South Carolina House District 80. As a husband and proud father, Jermaine knows the value and importance of giving back to the community that has helped him raise his .Jermaine is the owner...
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The Robots Are Coming #8 - Ahmed Ahmed
Today our guest is Ahmed Ahmed, an undergraduate at Stanford of the same major as Michael (MCS). Ahmed is an ethnic Arabic born in Sudan, lived in Qatar before emigrating to the US. His diverse life experiences shaped some unique perspectives on Black Lives Matter, Blacks In Tech, affirmative...
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The Robots Are Coming (Special Topics) #1 - Facial Recognition
Facial recognition has been deployed to improve the convenience of our day-to-day lives, from identifying your friends on pictures shared on social media, unlocking your phone or door, validating identity at ATM machines, and enforcing building security. However, every coin has two sides, and it...
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The Robots Are Coming #6 - Aarika Samone Rhodes
On this episode, we interview Aarika Samone Rhodes, a devoted elementary school teacher and passionate member of the #YangGang. We talk about innovative ideas on education, police reform, and the future of ed-tech.
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The Robots Are Coming #5 - Dakota and Gisselle
On this episode, we interviewed Dakota (scientist/activist) and Giselle (a pre-law student). We talked about the future of tech, climate change, and their values.
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The Robots Are Coming #4 - ASUC Senator Nicole Anyanwu
On this episode, we will being have a conversation about Big Tech, and censorship, especially in relation to data mining, and encryption, with the relevance of acts like S.3398, the "Earn It" Act possibly threatening individuals rights to speak out on various social media platforms, especially as...
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The Robots Are Coming #3 - Reverend Wendy Hamilton
Reverend Wendy Hamilton was formerly a Spiritual and Cultural Surrogate of presidential candidate Andrew Yang and is currently a counselor based in Washington DC. Rev. Hamilton became a Yang supporter after she read an article the candidate penned for The New York Times called “The Robots Are...
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The Robots Are Coming #2 - Councilmember Ben Barlett
We had a special guest: Ben Barlett who’s a council member in Berkeley City Council, District 3. What’s really special about Ben is that he is both a tech and political leader focused not only on activism but also using innovation to drive 21st century economic development with job opportunities...
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The Robots Are Coming: Trailer
Michael and Ken are sophomores from Stanford and UC Berkeley, respectively. While there has been a lot of academic discussion around the impact and challenges of automation, especially in the Silicon Valley, it was only recently that these issues have entered the mainstream. Automation is no…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
It was only recently that the impact and challenges of automation have entered the mainstream conversation. Automation is no longer the Terminators’ and Transformers’ of science fiction movies or dystopian novels. It’s already here and radically changing how we work, live, think and even feel.We’re eager to bridge the gap of awareness between our bubble and the rest of the country by sharing our insights into how the invisible hand of technology plays a role underneath the surface of modern society.
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Ken and Michael
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