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
Oral History: Human Centered AI
We meet Dr. Fei-Fei Li In the latest installment of our oral history project. She's a Chinese-American computer scientist and the creator of ImageNet - the dataset that made rapid advances possible i…
00:17:41 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
Political Campaigns Can See What You Watch on TV
Smart TVs that track what people watch and how they watch it give political campaigns a new trove of data to exploit, with little transparency on how it’s happening.
We meet:
Investigative Repor…
00:13:57 |
Wed 03 Jul 2024
Live: 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 26 Jun 2024
Oral History: Minimizing the Risk of Mid-Air Collisions
How do we minimize the risk of mid-air collisions between aircraft? And how does that change in the era of artificial intelligence and things like drone swarms?
Claire Tomlin works on questions like…
00:15:56 |
Wed 19 Jun 2024
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 that were given by AI software.Teachers say these AI tools can help them grade papers faster but wh…
00:15:42 |
Wed 12 Jun 2024
Building a Poison Pill for Generative AI
A team of computer scientists at the University of Chicago has built tools that let artists poison the training data embedded in their work, and fight back against those who scrape the internet to bu…
00:17:14 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
Oral History: Journey to Quantum Advantage
For some types of problems quantum computers can work exponentially faster than other types of supercomputers, but significant challenges remain to building useful quantum machines.
We hear from on…
00:20:34 |
Wed 29 May 2024
Live: AI's Role in Public Health
A live conversation about the potential promises and pitfalls of AI in public health, hosted by Boston University's School of Public Health.
We meet:
Dr. David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of…
00:31:09 |
Wed 22 May 2024
Oral History: Discovering Drugs with Generative AI
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
Credi…
00:25:54 |
Wed 15 May 2024
Feature: 'AI and the Holy Grail of Conservation' from Click Here
Cornell University’s Elephant Listening Project has been trying to get real-time monitoring of the Central African Republic’s forest elephants for years. FruitPunch AI and a roster of other AI resear…
00:25:17 |
Wed 08 May 2024
Oral History: (Ai)ding Cybercrime
A look at how AI is helping and hurting cybersecurity in this latest installment of our oral history project.
We Meet:
Palo Alto Networks Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich
Credits:
This episo…
00:12:40 |
Wed 01 May 2024
Video Calls in 3D - Hold the Glasses
In this bonus episode, we tour Google's Project Starline at this year's TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
We Meet:
Andrew Nartker from Google’s Project Starline
Credits:
This episode of SH…
00:08:45 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Oral History: Making Payments
The way we pay for things is changing dramatically, and it’s only going to become more invisible and integrated into our experiences going forward—like a car that can pay for gas or electric charging…
00:14:34 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
Oral History: Changing Our Stories
AI is being used to write stories that flood the internet with trash and spam, but it can also help journalists tell stories that can be personalized and updated automatically. In the latest installm…
00:16:03 |
Wed 10 Apr 2024
People Think AI Should Credit its Sources
As more people try ChatGPT and other AI tools, our thoughts about what's fair or what to trust with generative AI are evolving. The Pew Research Center offers some of the most comprehensive surveys o…
00:14:08 |
Wed 03 Apr 2024
Building Trustworthy AI
The current AI ecosystem has plenty in common with the early days of the web. So, what have we learned?
We Meet:
Mark Surman, President of Mozilla
Credits:
This episode of SHIFT was produced…
00:14:12 |
Wed 27 Mar 2024
Our Declining Trust in AI
Our trust in people, government, science and even our trust in technology—we have a lot less trust in all of it than we used to. Our lack of trust might even turn out to be the most bi-partisan thing…
00:15:36 |
Wed 20 Mar 2024
Live: Digital Citizens or Digital Subjects?
Frank McCourt is an American executive and philanthropist. He’s also the author of a new book about the internet, called “Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital A…
00:31:21 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
Live: Streamlining the Music Industry
Join EngineEars founder Derek "MixedByAli" Ali and EMPIRE founder Ghazi Shami as they deep dive into the convergence of innovation and artistry, discuss the latest trends in the music industry, and e…
00:20:05 |
Wed 06 Mar 2024
Future of the Internet, Part Two
In this second of a two-part series, we meet people fighting to build an open internet.
We Meet:
Digital Medusa Founder Farzaneh Badiei
Internet Society President & CEO Andrew Sullivan
Vivald…
00:25:07 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
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