Podcast
Conversations with writers, researchers, and activists on politics, science, and ethics.
Selected episodes
Episode 35
Bengio is the second-most cited living scientist and one of the so-called "Godfathers of deep learning." He and the other Godfathers — Hinton and LeCun — shared the 2018 Turing Award, computing's Nobel prize. In November he was commissioned to lead the first "State of the Science" report on the capabilities and risks of frontier AI.
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Episode 32
Bregman is the bestselling author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: a Hopeful History. He has been profiled in the New York Times and interviewed on the Daily Show. Rupert Murdoch has been spotted reading his book, and Tucker Carlson called him a "fucking moron."
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Episode 8
Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School. She is the author of Charged: the New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, and co-hosts Slate's Political Gabfest.
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