AI’s Threat to Privacy — Signal’s Meredith Whittaker with Nicholas Thompson
AI agents can scour the internet for us, reply to our messages, and add events to our calendars. But in order to do so, they need sweeping access to our data. Handing that over presents an unprecedent...
1 Jul 51min
Will AI Agents Kill Social Media–Or Save It? Eli Pariser with Nicholas Thompson
Take a scroll through Facebook or TikTok today, and you’ll likely find some AI-generated content: an influencer with impossibly-radiant skin, a stunt that bends the laws of physics, Shrimp Jesus. And ...
24 Jun 44min
How AI Agents Are Changing Business - PwC’s Dan Priest with Nicholas Thompson
You've probably heard it already: AI is going to radically change the way we work. But the details change depending on who's making the prediction: AI will wipe out the C-suite, or entry-level jobs, o...
17 Jun 31min
How AI Is Changing Code - Paul Ford with Nicholas Thompson
In the last year, AI has arguably made more progress in coding than in any other domain. Its technical capabilities – harnessed through apps like Codex and Claude Code – have changed the way engineers...
10 Jun 50min
How Science Can Fix Dishonest AI - Yoshua Bengio with Nicholas Thompson
In the years following the launch of ChatGPT, as concerns spread over the social and political impacts of LLMs, one person’s warnings seemed particularly dire: Yoshua Bengio’s, a scientist and one of...
3 Jun 50min
The AI Jobs Disruption - Erik Brynjolfsson with Nicholas Thompson
Of all the potential risks and promises of AI, perhaps none are as immediately dire as this: How will it impact jobs? Will employers still need workers? What will it mean if the answer is “no?” Depend...
27 Mai 1h 2min
The Limits of Predictive AI - Carissa Véliz with Nicholas Thompson
Can AI predict a person’s future? It’s a promise often made by sales teams, but the technology’s record is far from spotless. Even if it did achieve perfect foresight, a practically-clairvoyant AI mig...
20 Mai 48min
AI Utopia or Catastrophe? Nick Bostrom with Nicholas Thompson
Will AI destroy the world, or transform it into one of abundance? Across two books and several papers, philosopher Nick Bostrom has envisioned a range of AI futures. He joins Nicholas Thompson to disc...
13 Mai 48min
