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Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar — 105 episodes
Ep 109 - Mordecai Kurz: Technology And Democracy
Ep 108: Prashanth Chandrasekar: Community and the AI Pivot
Ep 107: Rule Breaker Investing — David Gardner on Staying the Course
Ep 106: Luca Turin On Decoding Smell
Ep 105: Nicholas Christakis on The Impacts of Machines on Human Groups
Ep 104: Leslie Kay on Smell, Memory and the Brain
EP 103: Léon Bottou on Fiction Machines and the Limits of AI Alignment
Ep 103: Jayant Sinha on AI Governance In A Fragmented World
Ep 102 - Alex 'Sandy' Pentland on Humanizing Technology
Ep 101: Deepak Chopra On Consciousness and Reality
Ep 100: David Ko, From Panic to Purpose
Ep 99: Vasant Dhar on Thinking With Machines, Hosted by Joel Roberts
Ep 98: There's no I in AI, Ben Shneiderman on The Evolution and State of Artificial Intelligence
Ep 97: Alex Wiltschko on Digitizing Scent
Ep 96: Deogratias Niyizonkiza, Healing a Nation, One Village at a Time
Ep 95: Peter Ward On The Evolution Of Life
Ep 94: Anil Seth On The Science of Consciousness
Ep 93: Uma Valeti on Cultivating Meat
Ep 92: Angela Hawken on Changing Government
Ep 91: Michael Levin on the New Frontiers of Biological Intelligence
Ep 90: Sandeep Robert Datta on Smell and the Brain
Ep 89: Missy Cummings on Making AI Safe
Ep 88: Raghu Sundaram on Building a Great University
Ep 87: Andrew McAfee on the Geek Mindset
Ep 86: Natalie Foster on the Guarantee
Ep 85: Seth Shostak on Extraterrestrial Life
Ep 84: Vlad Barbalat on Immigration, Insurance and America
Ep 83: Shashi Verma on Transport in the 21st Century
Ep 82: Josh Tucker on the Complex Truth About Social Media
Ep 81: Alex Wiltschko on the Sense of Smell
Ep 80: Kevin Mitchell Makes a Case for Free Will
Ep 79: Arthur Spirling on How AI Can Change Politics
Ep 78: David Halpern on Nudging
Ep 77: Pippa Ehrlich on the Mysteries of the Sea
Ep 76: Peter Ward on Life on Earth
Ep 75: Mohit Satyanand on Investing and India
Ep 74: Peter Singer on Animal Liberation
Ep 73: Paul Sheard Demystifies Money
Ep 72: Ajay Shah on the Dangers of Digital Public Infrastructure
Ep 71: David Sontag on AI in Healthcare
Ep 70: Rajesh Jain, Disrupter
Ep 69: Chandrika Tandon on Music and Impact
Ep 68: Gary Smith is an AI Skeptic
Ep 67: Ellie Pavlick on the Cutting Edge of AI
Ep 66: Jameel Jaffer on Free Speech in the Social Media Age
Ep 65: Rick Smolan on a Life in Photography
Ep 64: Amit Varma on the Creator Economy
Ep 63: Piyush Gupta on How AI Will Transform Business
Ep 62: Dmitry Rinberg on the Mysteries of Smell
Ep 61: Marty Fridson on How Tech Changed Wall Street
Ep 60: Raphaël Millière Looks Under the Hood of AI
Ep 59: Paulo Kaiser on Assimilating ChatGPT
Ep 58: Sam Bowman on ChatGPT & Controlling AI
Ep 57: Rich Bonneau on the Exciting Frontiers of Computational Biology
Ep 56: Tom Davenport on Artificial Intelligence in Business
Ep 55: Paul Barrett on Regulating Social Media
Ep 54: Dana Carroll on the Science and Ethics of Gene Editing
Ep 53: Paul Shapiro on Growing Meat Without Animals
Ep 52: Neeti Bhalla Johnson on Risk in Our Modern World
Ep 51: Emeran Mayer on the Brain in Our Gut
Ep 50: Pramod Varma on India's Digital Empowerment
Ep 49: Anshu Gupta on Using Waste For Good
Ep 48: Hanna Halaburda and Yannis Bakos on Bitcoin, Blockchain and DeFi
Ep 47: Shelley Stewart on Black Economic Mobility
Ep 46: Soumitra Datta on Measuring Innovation
Ep 45: Joseph Aoun on Becoming Robot-Proof
Ep 44: Maneka Gandhi on Animal Rights
Ep 43: Bernard Haykel on Islam and the West
Ep 42: Antoinette Schoar on Decentralized Finance & Crypto
Ep 41: David Chalmers on the Nature of Reality
Ep 40: Ben Hunt on the Power of Narrative
Ep 39: Marie Bergstrom on Online Dating and Intimacy
Ep 38: Joel Peterson on the Art and Science of Winemaking
Ep 37: Caitlin Zaloom on the Explosion of Student Debt
Ep 36: Jeff Teper on the Post-Covid Workplace
Ep 35: Anthony Zador on How our Brains Work
Ep 34: Chris Bail on How to Fight Polarization
Ep 33: Aswath Damodaran on Investing
Ep 32: Helena Rosenblatt on Liberalism's Long Journey
Ep 31: Philip Tetlock on the Art of Forecasting
Ep 30: David Yermack on The Crypto Revolution
Ep 29: Albert Wenger on the World After Capital
Ep 28: Adam Alter on Beating Our Addictions
Ep 27: Andrew Yang on the New Politics America Needs
Ep 26: Anna Lembke on Beating Dopamine
Ep 25: John McWhorter on the Religion of Wokeism
Ep 24: Solon Barocas on Removing Bias From Machines
Ep 23: Terry Odean on How to Think about Investing
Ep 22: Dina Srinivasan on the Dangers of Big Tech
Ep 21: Daniel Kahneman on How Noise Hampers Judgement
Ep 20: Stuart Russell on The Existential Risk of AI
Ep 19: James Robinson on What Makes a Successful State
Ep 18: Erik Brynjolfsson on the Second Machine Age
Ep 17: Peter Railton on Moral Intuitions
Ep 16: Samuel Moyn on Humane War
Ep 15: Nandan Nilekani on an Egalitarian Internet
Ep 14: Bias, Lies, and Democracy
Ep 13: Can a Machine Have Human Values?
Ep 12: Are We Becoming a New Species?
Ep 11: The Future of Liberal Education
Ep 10: Understanding QE in the New World
Ep 9: Waiting for Doctor AI
Ep 8: How Social Media Threatens Society
Ep 7: The Nature of Intelligence
Ep 6: The China Question