Unscripted with Jeff Pedowitz

Lena Smart has spent 30 years securing the systems we genuinely cannot afford to have fail — the power grid, financial markets, and as longtime CISO at MongoDB, one of the most widely used databases o...

12 Jul 33min

Dr. Sarah Chardonnens is a professor at the University of Freiburg with a PhD in the science of learning, and in this conversation with Jeff Pedowitz she takes on the question everyone has an opinion ...

10 Jul 36min

Juergen Weichenberger has been building AI since the 1990s, well before it became a mainstream conversation, in domains where the cost of being wrong isn't a typo, it's a shutdown: factories, energy g...

10 Jul 34min

Manas Talukdar has spent 19 years building the infrastructure underneath AI systems: the data backbone of the process industry, the platform behind one of the largest enterprise AI companies, and the ...

10 Jul 28min

Ed Addison took his first AI course at MIT in 1985 and has spent the four decades since building through every wave of the field, from brittle rule-based expert systems in the 80s, to neural nets in t...

10 Jul 33min

Eric Forst spent the first half of his career building the foundational technology of the surveillance economy: pixel tracking at one of the largest third-party cookie networks, then AI-driven sentime...

10 Jul 33min

Nevra Ledwon has spent 25 years in mathematical optimization, the branch of AI that decides which trucks carry which goods, how factories schedule production lines, how airlines crew flights, and how ...

8 Jul 36min

Rajiv Dattani helped run METR, the organization that evaluated whether OpenAI's and Anthropic's frontier models were too dangerous to release, before leaving to build something stranger: insurance for...

8 Jul 30min