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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.
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S3E37 Meet the CIA's Former Digital Chief
What do you think it would be like to lead AI efforts and the overall digital transformation of the CIA? This week, we find out as we dive into a world of espionage and secrets in the latest…
S3E36 Quantum Computing’s Hardest Path Reaches a Breakthrough
Microsoft EVP Jason Zander on the materials breakthrough that closed the gap, how AI agents cut the roadmap in half, and why he believes quantum's real job might be to make AI smarter.We Meet:…
S3E35 Digital Citizens or Digital Subjects?
Frank McCourt is an American executive and philanthropist. He’s also the author of “Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age”. We talk to him about that fight…
S3E34 How to Build AI for the Physical World
For as far as we’ve come with AI and robotics, there’s still a huge gap when it comes to combining the two. AI excels in the digital space, and in the physical world, robots are often pre-programmed.…
S3E33 AI's Survival of the Fittest
The spray-and-pray approach to AI investing is dead. Join us as we discuss what it takes to stand out in a saturated market as we move beyond the hype to identify real moats and what’s next for…
S3E32 Teaching Kids to Think About AI—Not Just Use It
What if we've all become so focused on what technology is capable of that we've lost track of what children are capable of? We Meet: Andrew Sliwinski is the VP and Head of Product Experience for…
S3E31 AI Ethics Needs a Nightmare, Not a North Star
What if the standard approach to responsible AI, built around aspirational values like fairness and transparency, is fundamentally broken in the age of AI agents? We Meet: Reid Blackman is the author…
S3E30 Built to Trust: Designing Safe, Smart Systems
How do you build intelligent systems that people trust? Then, how do you keep that trust when things go wrong? Because when things do, it’s not the tech that loses face but the brand people relied…
S3E29 Capital One on the Last Mile Problem
Capital One is the largest issuer of credit cards in the U.S. It’s also one of the largest banks, and car finance companies, in the country. We learn from its experience building proprietary AI…
S3E28 Reliability at the Speed of Change
Engineers charged with maintaining secure and reliable sites and services need to be able to observe what’s going on inside their systems. That observability data helps them spot issues sooner, fix…
S3E27 Building Human-Centered AI
Best-known as the creator of ImageNet, we meet the Godmother of AI, Dr. Fei-Fei Li In the latest installment of our oral history project. She's a Chinese-American computer scientist and the creator…
S3E26 Aging in Place with AI
Each day more than 11,000 people in the US turn 65 years old. It adds up to more than 4,000,000 people a year, and the labor force that serves them is struggling to keep up with that demand - a…
S3E25 What Does It Mean if AI Agents Turn Marxist?
Lately, it feels like you can’t go more than a few minutes without hearing someone talk about AI agents, and there’s a very good reason for that. Agents are doing more work, more quickly and in more…
S3E24 How to Build a Moonshot Factory
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…
S3E23 Helping AI Agents Network Securely
How to handle cybersecurity challenges posed by AI agents is about the hottest security topic going at the moment. If you’re wondering why that is, it’s because agents are built to take action - to…
S3E22 What it Means to Work Alongside AI Agents
How much do we know about the way organizations are adopting agentic AI, and what it means for the human employees working alongside? Our friends at The MIT Sloan Management Review did a deep dive…
S3E21 Finding and Financing Critical Minerals
Critical minerals are in just about every device you can think of, and there’s a global race underway to find and finance the production of these materials because they’re in short supply. This week,…
S3E20 AI, Risk, and the Future of Compliance
As regulatory expectations rise, and financial crime grows more complex, risk management is shifting from static checks to continuous intelligence. From the stage at this year’s Web Summit Qatar, we…
S3E19 Ready for Fish-Free Fish?
What would you say if someone offered you a taste of a salmon filet that doesn’t contain fish?The protein content, carbs, and even the omega 3s are basically the same, but what it doesn’t contain are…
S3E18 Exploring Compute’s Next Frontier
It’s not just AI software that’s rapidly shifting. One could argue that the very map of high performance computing is being redrawn, from OpenAI investing more than $10-billion in wafer-scale chips…
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SHIFT has published 148 episodes since September 2023, covering topics in Business, News.
SHIFT is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 19m.
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