SHIFT
by Jennifer Strong
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What Religion Can Teach Silicon Valley About AI
What Religion Can Teach Silicon Valley About AI
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 168 episodes
- What Religion Can Teach Silicon Valley About AI · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 57If you listen to how technologists talk about the AI they’re building, you might hear some words that sound more religious than technical: transcendence, transformation, a new…
- The Cows Don’t Read the Forecast · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 56AI is helping turn the dairy supply chain from push to pull, but milk still shows up whether anyone ordered it. Land O’Lakes’ CTO on AI in a business run by animals and weather…
- Ready for Fish-Free Fish? · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 55What 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…
- Who Owns the Future of Music? · 19 min · Season 3 Episode 54As AI blurs the line between creator and machine, the rules around ownership, value, and originality are all being rewritten. This week, we explore what it means for the music…
- The Next Interface: Why AI Needs Physical Products · 19 min · Season 3 Episode 53As AI moves beyond the screen and into the physical world, the next generation of intelligent products will be defined less by bigger models than by context, trust, and the…
- Why the Chatbot Shopping Boom Fizzled · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 52Nasrin Mostafazadeh, co-founder and CEO of Verneek, traces her path from a teenage robotics champion to founding an AI company with a boy at that same robotics competition, who…
- AGI Is the Wrong Question · 24 min · Season 3 Episode 51Neo4j CTO Philip Rathle on why the AI systems reaching production aren't monolithic LLMs, and why "attackers think in graphs" even when defenders don't. Credits: This episode…
- Geography is Everything · 19 min · Season 3 Episode 50From deciding where to build a new business, airport or fire station, to understanding the potential impact of decisions regarding conservation or governance, people make…
- Meet MAMA, the Mothers Fighting Against Media Addiction · 14 min · Season 3 Episode 49We know that kids spending time on social media are more likely to experience depression and anxiety. Less clear, and far more contentious, is the role we expect of schools…
- The Hard Part Wasn't Space · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 48Planet co-founder Robbie Schingler argues AI's next leap requires teaching it about the physical world, not just text. Join us as he traces the company's path from university…
- The Hidden Water Cost of AI · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 47Water shows up at every stage of the AI supply chain: to manufacture chips, to generate the power that runs them, and then more water to cool the chips in data centers. It's…
- Nobody Knows How Many AI Agents They Have, and it’s Risky Business · 12 min · Season 3 Episode 46From Las Vegas, where AI and security conferences are putting agentic risk front and center, we explore the identity crisis inside enterprise AI, and what it means to have…
- Invent Now: The Next Leap in Moonshots · 22 min · Season 3 Episode 45What if you could build solutions that unlock entirely new realities for millions of people? Aiming for something so big and so audacious that it seems almost impossible to…
- These Robots Might Solve Space's Labor Problem · 21 min · Season 3 Episode 44What’s an astronaut’s time worth? Answering that question is not a perfect science, but at more than $100,000 an hour (not counting salary - that's just to keep one alive) on the…
- How to Build AI for the Physical World · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 43For 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…
- Most People With Legal Problems Never See a Lawyer. AI Might Change That. · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 42Clio serves as the "operating system" for more than 400,000 legal professionals worldwide. Its founder and CEO Jack Newton has a lot to say about the field's agentic future, the…
- Building a Decentralized Drone Imaging Network · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 41Most geospatial data is gathered by satellites and cameras attached to planes, but a new decentralized network is helping amateur drone pilots capture and contribute ultra high…
- Assuming Breach and AI Agent Overreach · 13 min · Season 3 Episode 40Enterprises have been slogging through the AI adoption journey, but cybersecurity threat actors have been too. As the time from vulnerability discovery to breach effectively goes…
- Building an Internet of Cognition · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 39AI agents already perform complex tasks, but they largely work alone, even when they're technically connected. But what if they could collectively learn from each other, and…
- The Race for Nuclear Fusion · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 38A hundred million degrees Celsius. That’s the brutal reality of commercial fusion. This week, we’re sitting down with industry leaders to discuss the front lines of an energy…
