SHIFT
Hosted by Jennifer Strong, SHIFT is a weekly podcast taking a closer look at the far-reaching impact of automation on our daily lives. From policy to process, we seek to understand how lives are changing alongside rapid breakthroughs in frontier technologies and artificial intelligence. Join us as we navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by this reshaped reality.
Episodes
What might the future of AI look like?
Robert Brunner is responsible for some of the most iconic industrial designs of this century, and Matt Biilmann coined the phrase AX, which considers the user experience for AI agents. They joined me on center stage for a live conversation about what it means to design for AI at the Web Summit Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
We Meet:
Matt Biilmann, Co-founder & CEO Netlify
Rob...
The Race to Superintelligence is a deep dive into the rapidly expanding world of artificial intelligence. Join us as we explore the groundbreaking, mystifying and world-changing potential of the next machine age.
Support for this program comes from The Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network, supporting and bringing together journalists reporting on AI, and with AI, globally.
This episode first published in October 2024...
The application of artificial intelligence to help discover new medicines could become one of the more transformative ways we use this tech in the near term. Recursion Pharmaceuticals CEO Chris Gibson takes us on a tour of the world's largest phenomics lab.
We Meet:
Recursion Co-Founder & CEO Chris Gibson
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by ...
Frank McCourt is an American executive and philanthropist. He’s also the author of a new book about the internet, called Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age. We talk to him about that fight before a live audience in New York City at a gathering held by the responsible technology non-profit, All Tech Is Human.
We Meet:
Frank H. McCourt, Jr., civic entrepreneur and executive chairman...
Whether you're on a dating app or playing a game, how do you know if you're interacting with another human? We meet someone working on a possible solution to this problem in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Adrian Ludwig, Chief Architect of Tools for Humanity
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with orig...
Browsing online reviews when you’re shopping for a new product or service can be incredibly helpful, but only if they’re real.
We Meet: Trustpilot CEO Adrian Blair
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg Marco.
Astro Teller, Alphabet’s Captain of Moonshots, joins us for a conversation about the importance of failure, workplace culture in a moonshot factory, and not throwing away your shot.
We Meet:
Astro Teller is the Captain of Moonshots at X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and...
What if voting in a primary could be as simple as reaching for your phone? We explore mobile voting in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Bradley Tusk, Founder & CEO of Tusk Holdings
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg Marco.
Meet the CEO of Cerebras Systems in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg Marco.
Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in the way new drugs are discovered. It’s radically changing how this process works, and speeding up the development of new therapies.
We Meet:
Alex Zhavoronkov, CEO at Insilico Medicine
Mike Nally, CEO at Generate Biomedicines
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with...
We know that kids spending time on social media are more likely to experience depression and anxiety. Less clear, and far more contentious, is the role we expect of schools, governments, and tech companies, and some parents are starting to organize.
It's the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Mothers Against Media Addiction (MAMA) Founder Julie Scelfo
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by...
Anyone who’s had a job, knows what it means to have co-workers, but what happens when your colleague is an AI agent? As AI enters the workforce, we explore this question and more in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Lattice CEO Sarah Franklin
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SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong and Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg Mar...
We meet a founder questioning the wisdom of the Turing Test as he works to address the loneliness epidemic among the elderly, in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Intuition Robotics Founder Dor Skuler, maker of the ElliQ digital companion
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SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong and Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg Marco.
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A live conversation about the state of the space economy with the first Arab woman to fly to space and with a leading space investor. This episode was taped at the Middle East's largest tech event, with 25,000 attendees, from the mainstage of Web Summit Qatar.
We meet:
Astronaut Sara Sabry, CEO & Founder Deep Space Initiative
Adam Niewinski Co-Founder, General Partner OTB Ventures
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This episode of SHIFT wa...
In the not too distant future we might use AI agents for all sorts of things, though for now payments remain an obstacle because they can’t spend money without human help.
We Meet:
Amir Sarhangi, CEO of Skyfire
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg Marco.
Despite our best efforts, sometimes what we say we want isn’t precisely what we mean. Nowhere is that felt more acutely than when we’re giving instructions to a machine, whether that’s coding or offering examples to machine learning systems. We unpack the alignment problem in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Brian Christian, University of Oxford researcher, and author of The Alignment Problem...
We chat with Organic Valley in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Joshua Krzych, interim CIO at Organic Valley
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg Marco.
In this encore episode, we tour Google's Project Starline at the 2024 TED Conference in Vancouver.
We Meet:
Andrew Nartker from Google’s Project Starline
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong and Emma Cillekens, and it was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Anthony Green.
Certain things about the development of artificial intelligence were generally taken as fact, until Silicon Valley woke up to the rise of a small Chinese startup called DeepSeek.
We Meet:
Tech Editor & Neuroscientist Daniela Hernandez
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg M...
A look at industrial cybersecurity, and why it matters, in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Ian Bramson, Vice President of Global Industrial Cybersecurity at Black & Veatch
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This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg Marco.
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