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Pioneers of AI

Your guide to the new tech frontier

Each week, host Dr. Rana el Kaliouby (AI scientist, investor, author, co-founder of Affectiva) is joined by the leading creators, critics, and thinkers behind the latest groundbreaking 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.

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Could this be the future of K-12 education?
Alpha School’s Joe Liemandt
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Alpha School’s Joe Liemandt
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Vibe coding and the one-person start-up
Lovable’s Anton Osika
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Lovable’s Anton Osika
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How Harvey is reinventing legal work with AI
Harvey’s Gabe Pereyra
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Harvey’s Gabe Pereyra
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Arianna Huffington thinks AI could be a GPS for the soul
Thrive Global’s Arianna Huffington
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Thrive Global’s Arianna Huffington
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How Microsoft is democratizing safe AI
Microsoft’s Sarah Bird
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Microsoft’s Sarah Bird
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The power of storytelling in VCs
WndrCo’s Jeffrey Katzenberg
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WndrCo’s Jeffrey Katzenberg
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Inside how The New York Times leverages AI
The New York Times’ Alex Hardiman
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The New York Times’ Alex Hardiman
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How AI is transforming the classroom
Khan Academy’s Sal Khan
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Khan Academy’s Sal Khan
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Can artists and AI coexist?
Artist Shantell Martin
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Artist Shantell Martin
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Does OpenAI’s new model deliver on the hype?
Journalist Jeremy Kahn
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Journalist Jeremy Kahn
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How Writer is helping Fortune 500 companies become AI-forward
Writer’s May Habib
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Writer’s May Habib
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How Google DeepMind is building AI that can help humanity
Google DeepMind’s Lila Ibrahim
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Google DeepMind’s Lila Ibrahim
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Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theories?
Cornell University’s David Rand
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Cornell University’s David Rand
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How today’s AI giants mirror global empires of the past
Journalist Karen Hao
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Journalist Karen Hao
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What humans get (and don’t get) from AI
MIT Media Lab’s Pattie Maes
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MIT Media Lab’s Pattie Maes
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Elias Torres wants to reach unicorn status with just 100 employees
Agency’s Elias Torres
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Agency’s Elias Torres
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How to use AI to fight online image abuse
Alecto AI’s Breeze Liu
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Alecto AI’s Breeze Liu
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How to build robots that can live alongside us
MIT Media Lab’s Cynthia Breazeal
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MIT Media Lab’s Cynthia Breazeal
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The hidden environmental costs of a single AI prompt
Hugging Face’s Sasha Luccioni
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Hugging Face’s Sasha Luccioni
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How AI helps women track hormonal health
Eli Health’s Marina Pavlovic Rivas
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Eli Health’s Marina Pavlovic Rivas
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Investing in the age of AI, part 2
Flybridge Capital Partners’ Jeff Bussgang
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Flybridge Capital Partners’ Jeff Bussgang
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Investing in the age of AI, part 1
Khosla Ventures’ Vinod Khosla
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Khosla Ventures’ Vinod Khosla
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The start-up fixing AI's errors
Invisible Technologies’ Francis Pedraza
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Invisible Technologies’ Francis Pedraza
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Reid Hoffman on AI’s environmental impact and the path to sustainability
Masters of Scale’s Reid Hoffman
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Masters of Scale’s Reid Hoffman
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Preparing the next generation of AI scientists
SureStart’s Taniya Mishra
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SureStart’s Taniya Mishra
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With Groq, Jonathan Ross is taking AI inference to new speeds
Groq® Inc.’s Jonathan Ross
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Groq® Inc.’s Jonathan Ross
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From Abundance Summit: How AI is shaking up the start-up ecosystem
Andreessen Horowitz’s Anj Midha
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Andreessen Horowitz’s Anj Midha
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Your next manager could be powered by AI
Tough Day’s Katherine von Jan
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Tough Day’s Katherine von Jan
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Alicia Chong Rodriguez is keeping wearable AI tech close to the chest
Bloomer Tech’s Alicia Chong Rodriguez
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Bloomer Tech’s Alicia Chong Rodriguez
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Why AI agents are the future of work
Salesforce’s Marc Benioff
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Salesforce’s Marc Benioff
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Etched is ready to disrupt the AI chip market
Etched’s Gavin Uberti
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Etched’s Gavin Uberti
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The making of an AI clone
Virtual Human Economy’s Natalie Monbiot
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Virtual Human Economy’s Natalie Monbiot
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AI as your career coach
Careerspan’s Logan Currie
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Careerspan’s Logan Currie
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Love in the age of AI
Match Group’s WIll Wu
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Match Group’s WIll Wu
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The future of AI is human-centered
Imbue’s Kanjun Qiu
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Imbue’s Kanjun Qiu
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Your ‘AI crisis’ is totally normal but you’ll be fine
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s Ethan Mollick
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Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s Ethan Mollick
Why you trust AI with things you won't tell your friends (w/ Charles Duhigg)
Why you trust AI with things you won't tell your friends (w/ Charles Duhigg)
Stanford’s Silicon Valley pipeline, investigated (with Theo Baker) | Pioneers of AI
Stanford’s Silicon Valley pipeline, investigated (with Theo Baker) | Pioneers of AI
Raising an AI skeptic and an AI enthusiast under one roof | Pioneers of AI
Raising an AI skeptic and an AI enthusiast under one roof | Pioneers of AI
The AI behind the FIFA World Cup 2026 (Lenovo's Arthur Hu) | Pioneers of AI
The AI behind the FIFA World Cup 2026 (Lenovo's Arthur Hu) | Pioneers of AI
Reid Hoffman on what's real and what's hype in AI | Pioneers of AI
Reid Hoffman on what's real and what's hype in AI | Pioneers of AI
Drawing the line between you and your AI twin (w/ Natalie Monbiot) | Pioneers of AI
Drawing the line between you and your AI twin (w/ Natalie Monbiot) | Pioneers of AI
Does AI know you better than your doctor? (w/ ÅŒura CEO Tom Hale) | Pioneers of AI
Does AI know you better than your doctor? (w/ ÅŒura CEO Tom Hale) | Pioneers of AI
MasterClass CEO on reskilling for an AI world (with David Rogier) | Pioneers of AI
MasterClass CEO on reskilling for an AI world (with David Rogier) | Pioneers of AI