After 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March, VC-backed genetic testing company Nucleus Genomics put up its hand to acquire the platform. Nucleus uses whole-genome testing to give users a fuller picture of their DNA. The company also recently released a new feature that raised eyebrows among some ethicists. Kian Sadeghi, Nucleus’ founder and CEO, lays out his ... Show More
Aug 19
Keeping a Language Alive With a Robot
Many Indigenous languages are at risk of disappearing. 24-year-old inventor Danielle Boyer is on a mission to change that. She designed SkoBot, an interactive robot that teaches children her own native language, Anishinaabemowin. Danielle shares how she developed SkoBot, the ethi ... Show More
23m 16s
Aug 12
How AI Generated Police Reports Could Affect You
AI is being used right now by police officers across the United States to draft their reports — and it also has ramifications for prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and community members. Could this tool become the new norm? In part two of this special two-episode deep dive, ... Show More
26m 24s
Aug 5
Meet the Police Officers Using AI to Draft Police Reports
For the last year, officers in Fort Collins, Colorado, have used AI to draft police reports. In part one of this special two-episode deep dive, host Clare Duffy visits Fort Collins to meet the officers using this tool on the job. Plus, she digs into some of the legal and ethical ... Show More
27m 56s
Jul 2023
Tech and AI: 7. Where is AI working already?
Artificial Intelligence is already here. It's being used in products and services you already use, and is working behind the scenes in medicine, transportation, robotics, science, education, the military, surveillance, finance , agriculture, entertainment, retail, customer servic ... Show More
14m 24s
Mar 2023
Humans vs. Machines with Gary Marcus
From the producers of The World as You’ll Know It, a new series about the perils and promise of artificial intelligence with cognitive scientist, Gary Marcus. For all the progress in artificial intelligence over the last 70 years — computers can now beat people at chess and Go, d ... Show More
3m 33s
Mar 2021
Does Technology Rule Our Lives?
Ben Pring, name one of the top tech thinkers to watch in 2020 by Thinkers 50, discusses his book "Monster" and how technology rules our jobs, lives, and future. Ben is part of the Labor and Work Life program at Harvard Law School. How can we take back control of technology so it ... Show More
26m 16s