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In this week’s episode, I’m joined by Sammi Cohen, the host of the podcast Social Currency, for an eye-opening conversation about the future of shopping in the age of AI. As the digital shopping experience undergoes its biggest transformation in decades, Sammi breaks down how AI is quietly reshaping the entire journey.

We dive into the rise of agentic commerce, from the recent Stripe x OpenAI collaboration that brings check...

Can artificial intelligence reliably act in ways that benefit humans? This week I sit down with Greg Buckner, cofounder of AE Studio, to discuss the increasingly urgent world of AI safety. Together we discuss how Greg’s team is taking on the challenge of making powerful AI systems safer, more interpretable, and more aligned with humanity.

As one of the leading voices working on the alignment problem, Greg explains how AI sy...

In this week’s episode I’m joined by Josh Lanzet, founder and CEO of Silvr, a cutting-edge AI platform that’s changing the way we shop for clothing. We dive into the frustrating world of online fashion discovery and explore how Silvr’s technology is bridging the gap between inspiration and purchase.

Together, we explore how this technology isn’t just revolutionizing shopping but also reshaping our understanding of AI. Josh ...

This week, I sit down with Eva Roytburg, journalist and editorial fellow at Fortune Magazine, where she covers the intersection of technology, business, and culture. We unpack one of the strangest and most revealing experiments in modern tech: her time wearing the AI companion “Friend” during a breakup.

In this episode, we explore what it means to let technology listen to us not just in a functional sense, but in an emotion...

Cory Doctorow, author, journalist, and activist, believes that the internet — once a space of promise and connection — has been systematically degraded by corporate greed. In his new book “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It,” he details how the platforms we depend on have become more expensive and more exploitative.

In our conversation, Cory Doctorow shares how this process unfolds, ...

What does it actually cost to live with AI? In this episode, I'm joined by technology and climate journalist Lindsay Muscato to explore an urgent but sometimes overlooked story: the impact of AI on the environment. Every chatbot query, every cloud-stored photo, every AI system we test requires significant energy. And to meet that demand, data centers are rapidly expanding across America. But with their particular concentra...

Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, believes that AI has potential to annihilate humanity. He knows this sounds hyperbolic, but as he explains in his new book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All,” just because this outcome may be dramatic, it doesn’t make it less true. 

In our conversation, Nate shares how little we actually know about how AIs work...

Has TikTok become so ingrained in our daily lives that it’s no longer just an app we use, but an experience that happens to us? Millions of Americans spend hours scrolling on the app, but is our relationship with TikTok more problematic than we think? And how much of that problem lies in the way the digital content is delivered — effortlessly and endlessly?

In this episode, I’m joined by Emily Baker-White – Forbes tech repo...

Marketing has always blurred the lines between real and illusion but why do AI advertisements feel different? From influencers with digital twins to billboards designed by machines, AI content is all around us and not always in obvious ways.

This week, I’m joined by Caroline Giegerich, vice president of AI at the IAB, to discuss the rise of generative AI in advertising. Caroline and I dig into how marketing is shifting from...

What happens when the world’s largest AI talent agency creates thousands of podcasts per week? And when these shows aren’t hosted by humans, but rather by AI characters? In this episode, I’m joined by Jeanine Wright, CEO of Inception Point AI, a media company that uses 125 AI agents to produce a staggering 3,000 podcast episodes weekly across more than 5,000 shows. 

Jeanine and I explore what it means to engineer human...

This week, I sit down with author and journalist Mallary Tenore Tarpley for a candid conversation about eating disorders in the age of AI. With the continued rise of “SkinnyTok” on Instagram and TikTok, the internet is becoming a main character in shaping our relationship with our bodies. But what's even more concerning is how AI is now being woven into the conversation with AI diet chatbots, and in some cases acting like ...

This week, I sit down with Alvaro Bedoya, a former FTC commissioner and fierce critic of AI chatbots, especially for use by children. As a longtime advocate for stronger tech regulation, Alvaro shares what he believes are the necessary actions that parents, policymakers, and users need to take right now to keep kids safe in the age of AI.

While OpenAI recently announced the rollout of new parental controls allowing parents ...

This week, I sit down with Josh Rothman, a staff writer at The New Yorker. We unpack his provocative essay, "AI Is Coming for Culture." Josh argues that AI isn’t just reshaping our jobs, politics, and wellbeing; it’s reshaping culture itself. But this isn’t only about AI-generated songs or stories. It’s about how we experience art, film, music, and books together. Think of Taylor Swift’s Swifties or Lady Gaga’s Little Mons...

This episode touches on a topic that affects tens of millions of us: digital addiction. Whether it's constant doom-scrolling, binge-watching, or indulging in habits like pornography, digital addiction can take on many forms. And while we may rely on our phones for a quick hit of connection or relief, we’re often left feeling worse. 

My guest Chandler Rogers, the co-founder and CEO of the app Relay, is re-imagining addi...

​​Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina forever changed the way we think about natural disasters, emergency response, and community resilience.  For me, it became a defining moment as a journalist shaping how I understand technology, content, and community. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the tragic event, and in this episode, I sit down with Michelle Payne, chief strategy and resiliency officer at the United Way of ...

This week on The Intersect, Cory begins by asking what may seem like a wild question: Can AI really sit with you through a psychedelic trip? What could go right (and wrong) when we invite technology into some of our most vulnerable emotional experiences? 

Even in 2025, women’s biology, which includes the daily fluctuations of hormone cycles, has largely been left out of psychedelic research (and most medical research a...

It continues to be a wild world on the internet. Social platforms have become the backdrop of our real lives. We live in hybrid spaces between our phones and the “real” world. And while we know social media has the power to connect us and broaden our perspectives, it’s also the stage from which harmful trends, predatory behavior and mental health challenges can emerge. This affects all of us, but teenagers are especially s...

Is work just something we endure for a paycheck? Or could it be something more? As AI takes on a bigger presence in all aspects of life, how can it elevate our professional lives to … dare we say it … make work fun? In this episode, I’m joined by @bperreau – founder and CEO of a new AI-powered leadership product called Parafoil – and Bree Groff – author of the newly released, Today Was Fun: A Book About Work (Seriously). W...

How do we know if our group chats are private? Does using a platform like iMessage, WhatsApp or Google Messenger protect what we say? Or can tech companies or governments access our messages and even monetize this data? 

The answers are complicated. In today’s episode with Udbhav Tiwari, Signal's VP of Strategy and Global Affairs, we explore the intersection of privacy, strategy, and the role of AI in reshaping communi...