Artificial Intelligence and You

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . I am talking with Gašper Beguš , leading researcher in decoding the language of whales. He is Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley and the Linguistics Lead at Project CETI , the Cetacean Translation Initiative, applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics working in the eastern Caribbean. In his Berkeley Biological...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . We're going underwater, to talk with whales. There have been some amazing breakthroughs recently in understanding the language of sperm whales, and AI plays a fascinating part in that. And even if you have no immediate intentions to go say hi to a whale, AI's part in this story has ramifications far outside the field of cetacean communication. Taki...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . I am talking with Katja Grace , founder of AI Impacts , a forecasting and risk research project focused on AI safety and governance. She has leveraged her passion and concern about AI risk into a significant role in, for instance, surveying the AI community for its evaluations of risk, which got her named to Time Magazine’s 100 most influential peo...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . When you stop and really consider the existential risks of AI, it becomes very apparent that we should do something. Yet so few people do. Someone who’s attempting to make up for that is Katja Grace , founder of AI Impacts , a forecasting and risk research project focused on AI safety and governance. Her surveys of the AI community’s evaluations of...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . I have been talking with Tomaso Poggio , Eugene McDermott professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and the Director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines , and one of the founders of the field of computational neuroscience. Tomaso is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Associat...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Studying human intelligence is a matter of neuroscience, and creating software is a matter of computing, so creating artificial intelligence would be at the intersection of those fields, called computational neuroscience, and I have with me one of the founders of that field. Tomaso Poggio is the Eugene McDermott professor in the Department of Brain...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . I'm talking with Professor Michael Gerlich . His new book, The Convenience Trap: What Happens When AI Becomes the Mind Behind Our Lives is about the threats to what I call our "cognitive autonomy" when we use AI the wrong way. And it turns out that the ways we tend to use it are mostly the wrong way, which was what Michael was talking about on the...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Professor Michael Gerlich is back on the show, calling from Zurich, Switzerland. His new book, The Convenience Trap: What Happens When AI Becomes the Mind Behind Our Lives is about the threats to what I call our "cognitive autonomy" when we use AI the wrong way. And it turns out that the ways we tend to use it are mostly the wrong way, which was wh...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . What is AI doing and going to do to job opportunities? What does it mean to have enough, and who has too little, and what’s fair? One answer to that is to look at inequality; how different are the financial circumstances of one set of people compared to another? I continue talking with Jeremy Ney , Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . What is AI doing and going to do to job opportunities? What does it mean to have enough, and who has too little, and what’s fair? One answer to that is to look at inequality; how different are the financial circumstances of one set of people compared to another? Here to help us understand that is Jeremy Ney , Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . I am talking with Rob May, Co-Founder and CEO of NeuroMetric AI , optimizing inference for multi-model AI systems, and returning to the show after 5 years. We're making sense of how rapid advances in AI—especially the shift from training to real-world inference—are reshaping work, business strategy, and the roles of humans. They accelerate producti...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Rapid advances in AI—especially the shift from training to real-world inference—are reshaping work, business strategy, and the roles of humans. They accelerate productivity while increasing cognitive demands and redefining where human judgment still matters. Here to help us get a handle on that and returning to the show after five years is Rob May,...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . AI abounds with paradoxes.  I have been talking about those with Virginia Dignum , professor of responsible artificial intelligence at Umeå (OOMEO) university, about her new book, The AI Paradox: How to Make Sense of a Complex Future , just released, with links in the show notes and transcript. Virginia is an internationally recognized expert in AI...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . AI runs not just broadly across human interest, but deeply. And at every level it seems to create paradoxes. How can it be useful without power; how can it be safe with power. We want it to take over jobs, but still leave us with meaning and purpose. We deny it the possibility of becoming sentient, but how can we trust something that lacks compassi...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Have you ever thought about your thoughts? About what or how you’re thinking? It gets real meta real fast, doesn’t it? That’s called metacognition, and humans and certain other creatures do it. But what about AI? We’re coming back to the interview with Ricky Sethi , Professor of Computer Science at Fitchburg State University, and researcher into ar...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Have you ever thought about your thoughts? About what or how you’re thinking? It gets real meta real fast, doesn’t it? That’s called metacognition, and humans and certain other creatures do it. But what about AI? Can it think about thinking? Here to help us understand this whole thing is artificial metacognition researcher Ricky Sethi . He is Profe...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . Because AI touches our lives down to our core where our emotions and subconscious reside, we need to be touched with the important lessons that our fellow humans wish to communicate about AI through vehicles like art, poetry, and, in the case of today’s guest, fiction. Mark Peres is a professor, author, and civic innovator with decades of experienc...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . We shouldn’t learn the important lessons of AI through just exposition, through just descriptions, explanations, lessons, and textbooks. But because AI touches our lives down to our core where our emotions and subconscious reside, we need to be similarly touched with the important lessons that our fellow humans wish to communicate about AI through...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . In 2023 a global movement called Pause A I started, advocating for a pause in the development of powerful AI, and on the show we have its co-founder, Holly Elmore . Their website says “We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . In 2023 a global movement called Pause A I started, advocating for a pause in the development of powerful AI, and on the show we have its co-founder, Holly Elmore . Their website says “We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . One of the great wounds people are experiencing around AI is in creativity. Look at the writers’ and actors’ strikes, for example. I continue talking about this very sensitive subject with Maya Ackerman , author of the new book Creative Machines: AI, Art, and Us , which tackles it head on, full of emotion, vulnerability, and poetry.  Maya is the CE...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . One of the great wounds people are experiencing around AI is in creativity. Look at the writers’ and actors’ strikes, for example. Here to talk about this very sensitive subject is Maya Ackerman , author of the new book Creative Machines: AI, Art, and US , which tackles it head on, full of emotion, vulnerability, and poetry.  Maya is the CEO and co...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . The fear, uncertainty, and doubt around the future of work has reached epidemic proportions. We'll attempt to shed some light and provide some relief with data, questions, and informed speculation on the topic. How is the generation of content going to evolve, and what's awaiting us in robotics? Who will make the decisions about the future workplac...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . I am talking with José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson about AI in postsecondary education, because they are authors of the new book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning . José is leader of the Bowen Innovation Group, consulting on innovation in higher education and was the 11th president of Goucher College. He has...

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . After last week’s exploration of AI in secondary education it’s time to look at how it’s landing in the universities, and so I am talking with José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, authors of the brand new book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning . José leads the Bowen Innovation Group, consulting on innovation in...