SHIFT
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 107
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
The Future of Voting Is on Your Phone
What if voting in a primary could be as simple as reaching for your phone? We explore mobile voting in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Bradley Tusk, Founder & CEO o…
00:15:29 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
Rethinking AI’s Chip
Meet the CEO of Cerebras Systems in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman
Credits:
This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong w…
00:13:19 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
Discovering Drugs with AI
Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in the way new drugs are discovered. It’s radically changing how this process works, and speeding up the development of new therapies…
00:21:37 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Meet MAMA, the Mothers Fighting Against Media Addiction
We 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, governments, and tech com…
00:14:25 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Get Ready for AI Colleagues
Anyone who’s had a job, knows what it means to have co-workers, but what happens when your colleague is an AI agent? As AI enters the workforce, we explore this question and more in the latest instal…
00:16:32 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
Companion Robots for Older Adults
We meet a founder questioning the wisdom of the Turing Test as he works to address the loneliness epidemic among the elderly, in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Int…
00:22:59 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
SpaceTech is Booming
A live conversation about the state of the space economy with the first Arab woman to fly to space and with a leading space investor. This episode was taped at the Middle East's largest tech event, w…
00:16:28 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
Helping AI Agents Spend Your Money
In the not too distant future we might use AI agents for all sorts of things, though for now payments remain an obstacle because they can’t spend money without human help.
We Meet:
Amir Sarhang…
00:13:26 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
The Alignment Problem
Despite our best efforts, sometimes what we say we want isn’t precisely what we mean. Nowhere is that felt more acutely than when we’re giving instructions to a machine, whether that’s coding or offe…
00:19:14 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Optimizing the Farm
We chat with Organic Valley in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Joshua Krzych, interim CIO at Organic Valley
Credits:
This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennif…
00:12:25 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
Video Calls in 3D - Hold the Glasses
In this encore episode, we tour Google's Project Starline at the 2024 TED Conference in Vancouver.
We Meet:
Andrew Nartker from Google’s Project Starline
Credits:
This episode of SHIFT was pro…
00:08:45 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
The Rise of DeepSeek
Certain things about the development of artificial intelligence were generally taken as fact, until Silicon Valley woke up to the rise of a small Chinese startup called DeepSeek.
We Meet:
Tech E…
00:16:03 |
Wed 29 Jan 2025
Securing Critical Infrastructure
A look at industrial cybersecurity, and why it matters, in the latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Ian Bramson, Vice President of Global Industrial Cybersecurity at Black & …
00:19:05 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
A List of What to Watch in 2025
We catch up with cognitive scientist Gary Marcus on his list of predictions for what to watch in AI this year, and beyond.
We Meet:
Author & Cognitive Scientist Gary Marcus
Credits:
This epi…
00:21:45 |
Wed 15 Jan 2025
Commercializing Our Space Age Future
A live conversation about the state of the space industry with serial space entrepreneur Kam Ghaffarian, a co-founder of Axiom Space, Intuitive Machines, Quantum Space, and more, from the mainstage a…
00:17:47 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
Journey to Quantum Advantage
We’re taking a break for the holidays but given the recent quantum news with the unveiling of Google’s Willow, we think it’s a great time to revisit a chat I had with the man who founded and leads Go…
00:21:03 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
CLICK HERE: The guy who took down North Korea’s Internet
When North Korea hacked Alejandro Caceres, he expected the U.S. government to rush to his defense. When they just shrugged, he took matters into his own hands. This week we bring you an episode of th…
00:24:08 |
Wed 25 Dec 2024
Has AI Broken the Media?
A question I was asked to explore at this year’s Web Summit, Europe’s largest tech conference, is whether AI has broken the media.
We Meet:
New York Times Editorial Director of AI Zach Seward
…
00:18:19 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
Automating Appeals
Appealing a decision by a health insurance provider not to cover a treatment can be a complicated and time consuming process. But what if it didn’t have to be? We meet a founder working to automate t…
00:10:54 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
Building Public AI
We take for granted access to certain services even when the commercial value and the societal value don’t align - like the ability to mail a letter anywhere in the US. In the latest installment of o…
00:17:07 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
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