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SHIFT

Jennifer Strong

Hosted by Jennifer Strong, SHIFT is a new 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.

Hosted by Jennifer Strong, SHIFT is a new 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.

15hr 25min
Thumbnail for "Oral History: Discovering Drugs with Generative AI ".
A look at how AI is being used in the drug discovery process.
May 15, 202425min 54sec
Thumbnail for "Live: Commercializing Our Space Age Future".
A live conversation with serial space entrepreneur Kam Ghaffarian.
June 26, 202417min 47sec
Thumbnail for "Oral History: Minimizing the Risk of Mid-Air Collisions".
We meet Claire Tomlin in the latest installment of our oral history project.
June 19, 202415min 56sec
Thumbnail for "Teachers Use AI to Grade Papers. Who Grades the AI?".
A growing number of school kids are getting their writing assignments back with grades and feedback given by AI software.
June 12, 202415min 42sec
Thumbnail for "Building a Poison Pill for Generative AI".
We meet Nightshade Creator Ben Zhao from the University of Chicago.
June 5, 202417min 14sec
Thumbnail for "Oral History: Journey to Quantum Advantage".
Meet the founder of Google's Quantum AI Lab
May 29, 202420min 34sec
Thumbnail for "Live: AI's Role in Public Health".
A live conversation hosted by Boston University's School of Public Health.
May 22, 202431min 9sec
Thumbnail for "Feature: 'AI and the Holy Grail of Conservation' from Click Here".
A special episode from our friends at the Click Here Podcast
May 8, 202425min 17sec
Thumbnail for "Oral History: (Ai)ding Cybercrime".
How AI helps and hurts cybersecurity
May 1, 202412min 40sec
Thumbnail for "Video Calls in 3D - Hold the Glasses".
In this bonus episode, we tour Google's Project Starline at this year's TED Conference.
April 24, 20248min 45sec
Thumbnail for "Oral History: Making Payments".
We explore the evolution of how we pay for things in the latest installment of our oral history project.
April 17, 202414min 34sec
Thumbnail for "Oral History: Changing Our Stories".
A look at how journalism is evolving with AI in the latest installment of our oral history project.
April 10, 202416min 3sec
Thumbnail for "People Think AI Should Credit its Sources".
Our thoughts about what's fair and what to trust with generative AI are evolving. 
April 3, 202414min 8sec
Thumbnail for "Building Trustworthy AI".
The current AI ecosystem has plenty in common with the early days of the web. So, what have we learned?
March 27, 202414min 12sec
Thumbnail for "Our Declining Trust in AI".
Our lack of trust might be the most bi-partisan thing about this US election cycle, especially our lack of trust in AI.
March 20, 202415min 36sec
Thumbnail for "Live: Digital Citizens or Digital Subjects?".
A live conversation with philanthropist Frank McCourt about the future of the internet.
March 13, 202431min 21sec
Thumbnail for "Live: Streamlining the Music Industry".
Explore how tech is revolutionizing the creation and distribution of music around the world.
March 6, 202420min 5sec
Thumbnail for "Future of the Internet, Part Two".
Building an internet that works for everyone?
February 28, 202425min 7sec
Thumbnail for "Future of the Internet, Part One".
The infrastructure underpinning the internet is increasingly under threat.
February 21, 202419min 36sec
Thumbnail for "The New Luddites".
Activists fighting back against generative AI are reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process.
February 14, 202425min 31sec
Thumbnail for "Oral History: Generating Tax Advice".
Would you trust generative AI to answer your tax questions?  
February 7, 202416min 53sec
Thumbnail for "Live: What’s Your Digital Footprint? ".
New tools and privacy laws are starting to make it easier for people to take back their privacy.
January 31, 202421min 27sec
Thumbnail for "AI Art Gets a Poison Pill".
Artists are starting to use AI to fight back against AI.
January 24, 202415min 6sec
Thumbnail for "Unlearning Bad AI Behavior".
A new study explores how an AI model that’s been taught to lie might be brought back into line.
January 17, 202414min 39sec
Thumbnail for "Oral History: Coding Gets an AI Assistant".
Meet one of the central figures behind generative coding tools.
January 10, 202418min 37sec
Thumbnail for "Oral History: Crafting a National AI Strategy".
Meet one of the key figures behind Rwanda's AI policies.
January 3, 202421min 6sec
Thumbnail for "Oral History: Personal Finance Gets Generative".
Meet Ryan Graciano, a cofounder of the personal finance company, Credit Karma. 
December 27, 202315min 48sec
Thumbnail for "What to Watch: Tech Trends for 2024".
As this year draws to a close we’re bringing you a look at the tech trends we’ll be watching in 2024.
December 20, 202314min 34sec
Thumbnail for "Breaking Language Barriers with AI".
Language translation increasingly falls to artificial intelligence—but AI still doesn’t speak many of the world’s languages.
December 13, 202321min 33sec
Thumbnail for "Oral History: Educating Between the Lines".
Meet a man working to build edtech programs in under-resourced languages for out of school children.
December 6, 202315min 52sec
Thumbnail for "Live: Delivering Education During Crisis".
How advances in education tech and AI programs for learning might help children in crisis.
November 29, 202322min 38sec
Thumbnail for "Oral History: Symbolic AI is Explainable".
Meet a man trying to solve AI’s black box problem with symbolic AI.
November 23, 202322min 21sec
Thumbnail for " Live: Advancing Digital Equity for Black Communities".
In an increasingly digital world, ensuring equitable access to broadband and digital tools has become a pressing societal issue.
November 15, 202336min 56sec
Thumbnail for "Live: Understanding AI Governance ".
Privacy officers from Google, Microsoft, Meta and IBM discuss how they approach AI governance.
November 8, 202347min 34sec
Thumbnail for "Unpacking the Executive Order on AI".
We explore what impact the U.S. President's executive order on artificial intelligence might have as governments across the globe move to regulate AI.
November 2, 202322min 3sec
Thumbnail for "Manufacturing in Space".
What if the hardest part of making something in space is getting it back to Earth?
November 1, 202319min 27sec
Thumbnail for "Oral History: Airbnb's Party Pooper".
Meet the woman overseeing Airbnb's efforts to build an anti-party AI system.
October 26, 202313min 9sec
Thumbnail for "Measuring AI's Transparency".
Researchers measured the transparency of top AI foundation models–all failed.
October 25, 202321min 18sec
Thumbnail for "Live: AI Ethics and Geopolitics".
We take you to the heart of New York City’s manufacturing center, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, for a conversation about AI ethics and geopolitics.
October 18, 202323min 55sec
Thumbnail for "How Police Are Using AI in Rwanda ".
Hop into the backseat of a police car and learn how officers in Rwanda have adopted and deployed AI on the streets of Kigali.
October 11, 202314min 59sec
Thumbnail for "The Commercially-Charged Era of Drone Warfare".
Advances in off the shelf commercial technologies have changed how drone combat works and who can wage it.
October 4, 202321min 52sec
Thumbnail for "Live: Leveraging Soil Complexity".
A live episode taped in front of an audience at New York Climate Week.
September 29, 202336min 34sec
Thumbnail for "Did the AI Pause Letter Change Anything? ".
Six months after an open letter called for a temporary pause on the development of certain types of AI we ask what's changed.
September 28, 202321min 52sec
Thumbnail for "Inside Disney’s AI Dystopia".
Disney’s science-fiction thriller, The Creator, paints a picture of a future world at war—humans vs. artificial intelligence.
September 27, 202333min 17sec
Thumbnail for "Welcome to SHIFT".
A podcast examining our ever-changing trust in automation and emerging tech.
September 5, 20234min 28sec

Oral History: Discovering Drugs with Generative AI

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May 15, 202425min 54sec

A look at how generative AI is being used in the drug discovery process in this latest installment of our oral history project.

We Meet:

Insilico Medicine Founder and CEO Alex Zhavoronkov

Credits:

This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong and Emma Cillekens, and it was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Anthony Green.