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
Future of the Internet, Part One
The infrastructure underpinning the internet is increasingly under threat, but how many of us stop to consider how or why the internet works?
We Meet:
Internet Society President & CEO Andrew Sull…
00:19:36 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
The New Luddites
Activists are fighting back against generative AI and reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process, says Brian Merchant in a new piece for The Atlantic.
We Meet:
Tech Journalist & Author Brian…
00:25:31 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Oral History: Generating Tax Advice
Software can make it easier for people to file their own taxes, but what if you have a question? Would you trust generative AI to give you the answer?
We Meet:
H&R Block VP of Technology Aditya…
00:16:53 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
Live: What’s Your Digital Footprint?
An analysis by Consumer Reports suggests that every person on Facebook is being monitored by thousands of companies, but new tools and laws are starting to make it easier for people to take back thei…
00:21:27 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
AI Art Gets a Poison Pill
Artists are starting to use AI to fight back against AI with free tools that let visual artists deter–even poison–AI models that use their work without permission.
We Meet:
Carl Franzen, Head of …
00:15:06 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
Unlearning Bad AI Behavior
A new study explores how an AI model that’s been taught to lie might be brought back into line.
We Meet:
Brown University Professor of Computer Science Michael Littman
Credits:
This episode o…
00:14:39 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
Oral History: Coding Gets an AI Assistant
In the latest installment of our oral history project we meet one of the central figures behind generative coding tools.
We Meet:
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
Credits:
SHIFT is produced by Jennif…
00:18:37 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
Oral History: Crafting a National AI Strategy
In the latest installment of our oral history project we meet one of the key figures behind Rwanda’s national AI policies.
We Meet:
Esther Kunda, Director General, Innovation & Emerging Technolog…
00:21:06 |
Wed 03 Jan 2024
Oral History: Personal Finance Gets Generative
In the latest installment of our oral history project we meet Ryan Graciano, a co-founder of the personal finance company, Credit Karma.
We Meet:
Ryan Graciano, Co-founder & CTO of Credit Karma
…
00:15:48 |
Wed 27 Dec 2023
What to Watch: Tech Trends for 2024
As this year draws to a close we’re bringing you a look at the tech trends we’ll be watching in 2024.
We Meet:
Deloitte’s Chief Futurist Mike Bechtel
Credits:
SHIFT is produced by Jennifer St…
00:14:34 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
Breaking Language Barriers with AI
Language translation increasingly falls to artificial intelligence—but AI still doesn’t speak many of the world’s languages.
We Meet:
Vasco Pedro, CEO, Unbabel
Paulo Dimas, VP Product Innovatio…
00:21:33 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
Oral History: Educating Between the Lines
In this third installment of our oral history project we meet a man working to build edtech programs in under-resourced languages for children without access to traditional schooling. His company, Ta…
00:15:52 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
Live: Delivering Education During Crisis
Potentially a quarter billion children worldwide lack access to an education. Advances in education tech and AI programs for learning can help students who have access to tools and internet. This epi…
00:22:38 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
Oral History: Symbolic AI is Explainable
In this second installment of our oral history project we meet a man trying to solve AI’s black box problem with symbolic AI, a subfield that communicates how decisions are made.
We Meet:
Casper …
00:22:21 |
Thu 23 Nov 2023
Live: Advancing Digital Equity for Black Communities
In an increasingly digital world, ensuring equitable access to broadband and digital tools has become a pressing societal issue—particularly within the Black community. This episode, a conversation m…
00:36:56 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
Live: Understanding AI Governance
Privacy officers from Google, Microsoft, Meta and IBM discuss how they approach AI governance before a live audience at the general meeting of the IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professio…
00:47:34 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
Unpacking the Executive Order on AI
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.
We Meet:
Khari Johnson, senior writer, Wired…
00:22:03 |
Thu 02 Nov 2023
Manufacturing in Space
The hardest part of making something in space right now might just be getting it back to Earth. A conversation with Quartz’s Tim Fernholz about the opportunities and challenges of making goods in orb…
00:19:27 |
Wed 01 Nov 2023
Oral History: Airbnb's Party Pooper
In the first installment of our oral history project we meet the woman overseeing Airbnb's efforts to build an anti-party AI system to try to combat fraud and stop bad actors from using the company’s…
00:13:09 |
Thu 26 Oct 2023
Measuring AI's Transparency
Stanford University measured the transparency of top AI foundation models–all failed. The researchers are urging companies to reveal more information such as the data and human labor used to train th…
00:21:18 |
Wed 25 Oct 2023
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