SHIFT
Jennifer StrongSHIFT
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.
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.
It’s a question I was asked to explore at this year’s Web Summit Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.
Meet a founder making it easier to appeal decisions by health insurance companies.
It's the latest installment of our oral history project.
Meet the founder of Esri, in the latest installment of our oral history project.
A live conversation with venture capitalists about the AI funding landscape.
A live conversation with philanthropist Frank McCourt about the future of the internet.
Meet an architect and lead author of the EU AI Act, in the latest installment of our oral history project.
Activists fighting back against generative AI are reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process.
The final installment of a special series documenting the race to build superintelligent AI systems.
Part two of a special series documenting the race to build superintelligent AI systems.
The first installment of a special series documenting the race to build superintelligent AI systems.
We celebrate the show's first anniversary by going to go back to where it all started.
There’s a world in which a group of mountain gorillas might one day be able to pay for their own protection.
Because if AI takes over decision-making, what’s irreplaceable about humans?
Head of the Grammys and Recording Academy on all things AI and music
We unpack a new study from Pew Research Center.
A founder questions the wisdom of the Turing Test as he works to address the loneliness epidemic among the elderly.
Meet a man trying to solve AI’s black box problem with symbolic AI.
The latest installment of our oral history project.
The latest installment of our oral history project.
The chief scientist of Neo4j joins our oral history project.
We hop into the backseat of a police car and learn how officers in Rwanda have deployed AI on the streets of Kigali.
Encore: How advances in AI powered programs for learning can help children in crisis.
We meet Fei-Fei Li in the latest edition of our oral history project.
Smart TVs provide a new trove of data, with little transparency on how it’s happening.
A live conversation with serial space entrepreneur Kam Ghaffarian.
We meet Claire Tomlin in the latest installment of our oral history project.
A growing number of school kids are getting their writing assignments back with grades and feedback given by AI software.
We meet Nightshade Creator Ben Zhao from the University of Chicago.
Meet the founder of Google's Quantum AI Lab
A live conversation hosted by Boston University's School of Public Health.
A look at how AI is being used in the drug discovery process.
A special episode from our friends at the Click Here Podcast
How AI helps and hurts cybersecurity
In this bonus episode, we tour Google's Project Starline at this year's TED Conference.
We explore the evolution of how we pay for things in the latest installment of our oral history project.
A look at how journalism is evolving with AI in the latest installment of our oral history project.
Our thoughts about what's fair and what to trust with generative AI are evolving.
The current AI ecosystem has plenty in common with the early days of the web. So, what have we learned?
Our lack of trust might be the most bi-partisan thing about this US election cycle, especially our lack of trust in AI.
A live conversation with philanthropist Frank McCourt about the future of the internet.
Explore how tech is revolutionizing the creation and distribution of music around the world.
Building an internet that works for everyone?
The infrastructure underpinning the internet is increasingly under threat.
Activists fighting back against generative AI are reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process.
Would you trust generative AI to answer your tax questions?
New tools and privacy laws are starting to make it easier for people to take back their privacy.
Artists are starting to use AI to fight back against AI.
A new study explores how an AI model that’s been taught to lie might be brought back into line.
Meet one of the central figures behind generative coding tools.
Meet one of the key figures behind Rwanda's AI policies.
Meet Ryan Graciano, a cofounder of the personal finance company, Credit Karma.
As this year draws to a close we’re bringing you a look at the tech trends we’ll be watching in 2024.
Language translation increasingly falls to artificial intelligence—but AI still doesn’t speak many of the world’s languages.
Meet a man working to build edtech programs in under-resourced languages for out of school children.
How advances in education tech and AI programs for learning might help children in crisis.
Meet a man trying to solve AI’s black box problem with symbolic AI.
In an increasingly digital world, ensuring equitable access to broadband and digital tools has become a pressing societal issue.
Privacy officers from Google, Microsoft, Meta and IBM discuss how they approach AI governance.
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.
What if the hardest part of making something in space is getting it back to Earth?
Meet the woman overseeing Airbnb's efforts to build an anti-party AI system.
Researchers measured the transparency of top AI foundation models–all failed.
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.
Hop into the backseat of a police car and learn how officers in Rwanda have adopted and deployed AI on the streets of Kigali.
Advances in off the shelf commercial technologies have changed how drone combat works and who can wage it.
A live episode taped in front of an audience at New York Climate Week.
Six months after an open letter called for a temporary pause on the development of certain types of AI we ask what's changed.
Disney’s science-fiction thriller, The Creator, paints a picture of a future world at war—humans vs. artificial intelligence.
A podcast examining our ever-changing trust in automation and emerging tech.