Pioneers of AI
Pioneers of AI is your guide to the latest technological frontier. Each week, host Rana el Kaliouby (AI scientist, investor, author, co-founder of Affectiva) is joined by the leading creators, critics, and thinkers behind mind-blowing technology and asks the important questions about how artificial intelligence is changing the way we live. As we venture together into the unknown, Pioneers is your tool to understanding and anticipating what comes next.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 60
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Replay: How AI is shaping the job market, with Hilke Schellmann
This week, Pioneers of AI is bringing back one of our most thought-provoking conversations: How AI is transforming the job market. Hilke Schellmann, journalist and author of “The Algorithm,” has spen…
00:31:15 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
Inside how The New York Times leverages AI
For years, news organizations have walked a fine line between embracing new and emerging technologies and safeguarding their IP and content from those same technologies. The New York Times is no exce…
00:38:02 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
Back to school: How AI is transforming the classroom, with Sal Khan
It’s back-to-school season and questions about how AI is changing the classroom are top of mind for parents, students, and teachers. Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, an education platform that …
00:42:13 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
Can artists and AI coexist?
Award-winning visual artist Shantell Martin has made a name for herself through her signature black-line, graphic drawings that have scaled gallery walls and traced paths across Times Square. She's c…
00:38:40 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Does OpenAI’s new model deliver on the hype? Inside GPT-5 with Jeremy Kahn
OpenAI has released the latest iteration of its flagship product, GPT-5. It arrives after much anticipation, but does it live up to the hype? Jeremy Khan, AI Editor at Fortune, returns to the show to…
00:23:08 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
Possible: Alexis Ohanian on the future of online and offline communities
How do we build products and platforms that support a healthy, prosperous future? What will it take to “make the internet fun again?” Should kids be using AI? This week, serial entrepreneur and inves…
00:53:31 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
How Writer is helping Fortune 500 companies become AI-forward
As AI becomes a bigger part of the modern workplace, more companies are integrating agents into their workflows, redefining how employees and technology collaborate. At the forefront of this shift is…
00:32:43 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
How Google DeepMind is building AI that can help humanity
Google DeepMind is the powerhouse artificial intelligence lab behind Google’s AI assistant, Gemini. It’s also behind the groundbreaking AI tool, AlphaFold, that can predict a protein’s 3D structure. …
00:38:47 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theories?
From deepfakes to fabricated news, AI has been shown to generate convincing deceptive images and videos, increasing the spread of misinformation. David Rand, a professor of Information Science and ma…
00:30:37 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
How today’s AI giants mirror global empires of the past, with journalist Karen Hao
In her New York Times bestseller “Empire of AI,” journalist Karen Hao traces the rise of an intriguing and controversial tech giant: OpenAI. In years spent chronicling the company, she came to a theo…
00:38:16 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
What humans get (and don’t get) from AI, with MIT’s Pattie Maes
Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is the next horizon that could match or surpass human thinking. Companies are investing billions in it, but not necessarily in projects to help humans with ou…
00:37:23 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
Possible: Latanya Sweeney on AI, trust, and privacy
How does the rise of AI impact our sense of what’s true? How can humans maintain a degree of individual privacy and unlock the benefits of AI while mitigating potential harms? In this episode, Reid a…
00:54:55 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Elias Torres wants to reach unicorn status with just 100 employees
Founders and entrepreneurs today are racing to build companies with the leanest teams possible. Elias Torres, founder and CEO of Agency AI, a B2B company that delivers personalized, AI-powered custom…
00:30:17 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Possible: Jane Goodall on hope, AI, and the natural world
What would it look like to keep all living creatures in the loop on the development of new technology?
Reid sat down for a wide-ranging solo discussion with Jane Goodall on that very subject – and m…
00:59:01 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
How to use AI to fight online image abuse, with Breeze Liu
AI is a powerful tool full of possibilities, but it also carries the potential for significant harm. One disturbing misuse is the creation of synthetic “revenge porn” through deepfakes, targeting any…
00:35:37 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Possible: Artful Intelligence, part 3, featuring Paul Trillo
What does it take to create something the world has never seen before?
In this final episode of Artful Intelligence, Reid Hoffman and Chris McLeod explore what it takes to spark a creative revolutio…
00:56:38 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
How to build robots that can live alongside us, with Cynthia Breazeal
Over the past several decades, the field of robotics has achieved remarkable milestones. Robots have been sent to Mars and to the deepest parts of the ocean. Cynthia Breazeal, a professor at the MIT …
00:37:23 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
Possible: Artful Intelligence, part 2, featuring Elise Swopes
How can you shape the future with AI to create the world you want to live in?
Reid Hoffman and Chris McLeod explore this question with Elise Swopes, a trailblazing visual artist and educator blendin…
00:49:15 |
Sat 07 Jun 2025
The hidden environmental costs of a single AI prompt, with Dr. Sasha Luccioni
You may have heard that AI is a bit of a resource hog. It requires so much electricity that scaling it could have a tremendous impact on the planet through the increase of emissions. So, what is the …
00:34:59 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
Remarkable People: Deepak Chopra on becoming your own guru in the digital age
Can AI and spirituality coexist? Deepak Chopra, world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation, challenges our perceptions by embracing artificial intelligence as a spirit…
00:32:58 |
Sat 31 May 2025
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