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Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar — 105 episodes

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Ep 109 - Mordecai Kurz: Technology And Democracy

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Ep 108: Prashanth Chandrasekar: Community and the AI Pivot

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Ep 107: Rule Breaker Investing — David Gardner on Staying the Course

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Ep 106: Luca Turin On Decoding Smell

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Ep 105: Nicholas Christakis on The Impacts of Machines on Human Groups

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Ep 104: Leslie Kay on Smell, Memory and the Brain

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EP 103: Léon Bottou on Fiction Machines and the Limits of AI Alignment

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Ep 103: Jayant Sinha on AI Governance In A Fragmented World

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Ep 102 - Alex 'Sandy' Pentland on Humanizing Technology

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Ep 101: Deepak Chopra On Consciousness and Reality

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Ep 100: David Ko, From Panic to Purpose

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Ep 99: Vasant Dhar on Thinking With Machines, Hosted by Joel Roberts

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Ep 98: There's no I in AI, Ben Shneiderman on The Evolution and State of Artificial Intelligence

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Ep 97: Alex Wiltschko on Digitizing Scent

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Ep 96: Deogratias Niyizonkiza, Healing a Nation, One Village at a Time

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Ep 95: Peter Ward On The Evolution Of Life

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Ep 94: Anil Seth On The Science of Consciousness

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Ep 93: Uma Valeti on Cultivating Meat

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Ep 92: Angela Hawken on Changing Government

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Ep 91: Michael Levin on the New Frontiers of Biological Intelligence

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Ep 90: Sandeep Robert Datta on Smell and the Brain

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Ep 89: Missy Cummings on Making AI Safe

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Ep 88: Raghu Sundaram on Building a Great University

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Ep 87: Andrew McAfee on the Geek Mindset

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Ep 86: Natalie Foster on the Guarantee

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Ep 85: Seth Shostak on Extraterrestrial Life

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Ep 84: Vlad Barbalat on Immigration, Insurance and America

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Ep 83: Shashi Verma on Transport in the 21st Century

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Ep 82: Josh Tucker on the Complex Truth About Social Media

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Ep 81: Alex Wiltschko on the Sense of Smell

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Ep 80: Kevin Mitchell Makes a Case for Free Will

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Ep 79: Arthur Spirling on How AI Can Change Politics

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Ep 78: David Halpern on Nudging

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Ep 77: Pippa Ehrlich on the Mysteries of the Sea

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Ep 76: Peter Ward on Life on Earth

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Ep 75: Mohit Satyanand on Investing and India

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Ep 74: Peter Singer on Animal Liberation

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Ep 73: Paul Sheard Demystifies Money

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Ep 72: Ajay Shah on the Dangers of Digital Public Infrastructure

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Ep 71: David Sontag on AI in Healthcare

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Ep 70: Rajesh Jain, Disrupter

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Ep 69: Chandrika Tandon on Music and Impact

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Ep 68: Gary Smith is an AI Skeptic

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Ep 67: Ellie Pavlick on the Cutting Edge of AI

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Ep 66: Jameel Jaffer on Free Speech in the Social Media Age

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Ep 65: Rick Smolan on a Life in Photography

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Ep 64: Amit Varma on the Creator Economy

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Ep 63: Piyush Gupta on How AI Will Transform Business

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Ep 62: Dmitry Rinberg on the Mysteries of Smell

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Ep 61: Marty Fridson on How Tech Changed Wall Street

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Ep 60: Raphaël Millière Looks Under the Hood of AI

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Ep 59: Paulo Kaiser on Assimilating ChatGPT

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Ep 58: Sam Bowman on ChatGPT & Controlling AI

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Ep 57: Rich Bonneau on the Exciting Frontiers of Computational Biology

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Ep 56: Tom Davenport on Artificial Intelligence in Business

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Ep 55: Paul Barrett on Regulating Social Media

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Ep 54: Dana Carroll on the Science and Ethics of Gene Editing

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Ep 53: Paul Shapiro on Growing Meat Without Animals

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Ep 52: Neeti Bhalla Johnson on Risk in Our Modern World

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Ep 51: Emeran Mayer on the Brain in Our Gut

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Ep 50: Pramod Varma on India's Digital Empowerment

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Ep 49: Anshu Gupta on Using Waste For Good

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Ep 48: Hanna Halaburda and Yannis Bakos on Bitcoin, Blockchain and DeFi

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Ep 47: Shelley Stewart on Black Economic Mobility

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Ep 46: Soumitra Datta on Measuring Innovation

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Ep 45: Joseph Aoun on Becoming Robot-Proof

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Ep 44: Maneka Gandhi on Animal Rights

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Ep 43: Bernard Haykel on Islam and the West

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Ep 42: Antoinette Schoar on Decentralized Finance & Crypto

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Ep 41: David Chalmers on the Nature of Reality

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Ep 40: Ben Hunt on the Power of Narrative

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Ep 39: Marie Bergstrom on Online Dating and Intimacy

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Ep 38: Joel Peterson on the Art and Science of Winemaking

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Ep 37: Caitlin Zaloom on the Explosion of Student Debt

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Ep 36: Jeff Teper on the Post-Covid Workplace

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Ep 35: Anthony Zador on How our Brains Work

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Ep 34: Chris Bail on How to Fight Polarization

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Ep 33: Aswath Damodaran on Investing

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Ep 32: Helena Rosenblatt on Liberalism's Long Journey

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Ep 31: Philip Tetlock on the Art of Forecasting

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Ep 30: David Yermack on The Crypto Revolution

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Ep 29: Albert Wenger on the World After Capital

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Ep 28: Adam Alter on Beating Our Addictions

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Ep 27: Andrew Yang on the New Politics America Needs

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Ep 26: Anna Lembke on Beating Dopamine

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Ep 25: John McWhorter on the Religion of Wokeism

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Ep 24: Solon Barocas on Removing Bias From Machines

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Ep 23: Terry Odean on How to Think about Investing

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Ep 22: Dina Srinivasan on the Dangers of Big Tech

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Ep 21: Daniel Kahneman on How Noise Hampers Judgement

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Ep 20: Stuart Russell on The Existential Risk of AI

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Ep 19: James Robinson on What Makes a Successful State

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Ep 18: Erik Brynjolfsson on the Second Machine Age

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Ep 17: Peter Railton on Moral Intuitions

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Ep 16: Samuel Moyn on Humane War

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Ep 15: Nandan Nilekani on an Egalitarian Internet

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Ep 14: Bias, Lies, and Democracy

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Ep 13: Can a Machine Have Human Values?

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Ep 12: Are We Becoming a New Species?

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Ep 11: The Future of Liberal Education

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Ep 10: Understanding QE in the New World

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Ep 9: Waiting for Doctor AI

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Ep 8: How Social Media Threatens Society

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Ep 7: The Nature of Intelligence

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Ep 6: The China Question