Raised By Robots

What happens when stories stop being something we watch — and start becoming something we talk to? Nolan's guest today is Ben Relles, founder of Make Believe. Before launching Make Believe, Ben helped shape internet culture through viral video, co-founding Vsauce, and leading innovation at YouTube. Now he’s exploring a new idea: entertainment that responds to you. They talked about entertainment f...

Professor Carlo Ratti is an architect, engineer, and director of the MIT Senseable City Lab, where he explores how AI, sensors, and data are changing the way cities function and how humans experience physical space. In this episode of Raised by Robots, Nolan and Professor Ratti discuss what happens when artificial intelligence moves beyond screens and starts shaping buildings, transportation, publ...

In this episode of Raised by Robots, Nolan sits down with Clem Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, one of the most important platforms in open-source AI. Often called the “GitHub of AI,” Hugging Face gives developers a place to share, test, improve, and build with AI models, datasets, and tools.  Clem explains how Hugging Face grew from a chatbot for teenagers into a central platform for...

If AI can write code, do kids still need to learn programming? In this episode of Raised by Robots, Nolan talks with Amy J. Ko about a much bigger question: In the age of AI, who gets to be a builder — and who just becomes a user? Amy is a professor at the University of Washington, creator of the multilingual programming platform WordPlay, and co-author of Critically Conscious Computing. The conve...

Can a machine really be creative—or is it just following patterns? In this episode of Raised by Robots, Nolan sits down with Professor Ahmed Elgammal, a leading researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence and art, to explore one of the most debated questions in AI today. From his early passion for art in Alexandria to building AICAN—a system designed not to imitate the past but to ge...

Before there are chatbots, before there are models, before there is AI — there are builders. In this episode, Nolan speaks with Professor Dave Patterson of University of California, Berkeley, one of the most influential computer engineers in the world and a pioneer of RISC architecture — the design approach behind most modern computing systems. Patterson explains how hardware quietly powers every...

Everyone is talking about the future of AI—but not everyone is talking to the people building it. I’m Nolan, I’m 13, and on Raised by Robots, I explore artificial intelligence by speaking with the engineers, researchers, and founders shaping it. This is a short introduction to the show.