Mar 5

AI Is Breaking Education. Rebecca Winthrop Has the Blueprint to Fix It.

The promise of AI in education is incredible: picture infinitely patient tutors that can teach every student exactly the way they need to be taught. But the history of education technology tells us that these kinds of simple, optimistic stories are naive. Ask any teacher or stude ... Show More

46m 15s

Feb 19

The Race to Build God: AI's Existential Gamble — Yoshua Bengio & Tristan Harris at Davos

This week on Your Undivided Attention, Tristan Harris and Daniel Barcay offer a backstage recap of what it was like to be at the Davos World Economic Forum meeting this year as the world’s power brokers woke up to the risks of uncontrolled AI. Amidst all the money and politics, t ... Show More

37m 16s

Feb 5

FEED DROP: Possible with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger

This week on Your Undivided Attention, we’re bringing you Aza Raskin’s conversation with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger on their podcast “Possible”. Reid and Aria are both tech entrepreneurs: Reid is the founder of LinkedIn, was one of the major early investors in OpenAI, and is kn ... Show More

1h 7m

Jul 2020

Hany Farid on Deep Fakes, Doctored Photos and Disinformation

This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose work focuses on analyzing and identifying altered photo and video—what’s known as dig ... Show More

53m 1s

Mar 2021

The Growing Threat Of Disinformation And How To 'Deprogram' People Who Believe It

Disinformation isn't new. But in the last decade, the growth of social media has made it easier than ever to spread. That coincided with the political rise of Donald Trump, who rose to power on a wave of disinformation and exited the White House in similar fashion. NPR's Tovia Sm ... Show More

12m 55s

Jan 2022

Stark contrasts in how media treats Trump and Biden

Joe Lockhart and Alyssa Farah Griffin discuss the media's coverage. Plus, Olivia Nuzzi talks about her quest to interview Dr. Oz; Kate Starbird and Caroline Orr Bueno dissect Covid misinformation; and Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz share their experience building NewsGuard, a st ... Show More

37m 57s

Jun 2019

Far Left Media Is Making Liberals Insane, This Data Proves It

The Media Has Driven The Left Insane, This Data Proves It. Since the beginning of the 2010s there has been a dramatic increase in far left social justice terminology appearing in news articles. This coincides with the launch of many leftist media companies who saw a quick path to ... Show More

1h 25m

Jan 2022

Ep 29: Why do people share false information — and what can we do about it?

Why do people share false information? In this episode, our presenters <a href= "https://www.ginnysmithscience.com/">Ginny Smith</a> and Jon Sutton explore the psychology of misinformation. They hear about the factors that make peo ... Show More

20m 45s

Apr 2022

Taylor Lorenz discusses 'Libs of TikTok' and her reporting practices

Taylor Lorenz, the Washington Post journalist who profiled the "Libs of TikTok" Twitter account and revealed the creator's identity, answers questions about her reporting. She says "Libs of TikTok," which ridicules progressive educators, has become a "feeding ground" for right-wi ... Show More

29m 24s

Apr 2018

Kara Swisher’s problem with men in tech

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg heads to Congress, one dogged tech reporter has some advice for Capitol Hill and the reporters who cover it: Take off the kid gloves when dealing with the Silicon Valley executive. “He’s one of the richest people on earth. He’s an adult. He’s 30-so ... Show More

30m 12s

Apr 2017

Bad News is Good Business

AL Kennedy says we should reject the media outlets that peddle only bad news whether real or fake in ever shriller voices, depicting a world of unremitting awfulness."Fake facts - let's just call them lies - and deceptively selective coverage have to be peddled with greater than ... Show More

9m 55s

May 2022

Why Elites Are Losing Trust — With Vivian Schiller

Vivian Schiller is the executive director of Aspen Digital, former head of news at Twitter, and former CEO of NPR. She joins Big Technology Podcast for a discussion of why the public distrusts elites. This conversation takes place in Davos — as the World Economic Forum conducts i ... Show More

54m 25s

Sep 2020

Big Tech and Their Responses to Black Lives Matter

Everything feels awful right now, but it's not all doom and gloom. Employees at big tech companies like Facebook are pushing platforms to be better and they might just be one of our best resources. Catherine Bracy, founder of the TechEquity Collaborative, explains how tech staffe ... Show More

38m 56s

Stranger than Fiction — with Claire Ward...