Ryan Institute on Complexity at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

Life, Automated

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Life, Automated explores how AI and automation are reshaping everyday life–how we work, learn, communicate, and make decisions–through conversations with researchers, practitioners, artists, and other unexpected experts. Each episode is built around a single, accessible question. How quickly will AI take over our jobs? How concerned should we really be about AI’s impact on the climate? And, why the heck are we forming emotional attachments to chatbots? Life, Automated is grounded and non-ideological, aiming to move beyond both hype and alarmism to help listeners better understand the future we...

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Ryan Institute on Complexity at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

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Coming July 15th! Life, Automated 23.06.2026 4:27

Life, Automated explores the surreal, exciting, and occasionally terrifying ways AI and automation are reshaping our daily lives. Through thoughtful conversations with researchers, practitioners, artists, and more, we do our best to make sense of how technology is changing—and how it is changing us. We ask: What does the economy look like if AI can do much of what humans can? Will AI tools isolate...