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American universities are a critical pillar of US innovation. But what happens when Silicon Valley gets more intentional about that, treating a campus more like a talent pipeline, especially in the race to build AI? In his new New York Times bestseller “How to Rule the World,” journalist and recent Stanford graduate Theo Baker explores that and more. He describes the extreme lengths students and VCs go to in supercharging the school’s system for cultivating talent and investment opportunity. Host Rana el Kaliouby knows this world from the other side – as a founder who spun her company out of MIT and as an investor who now scouts talent on college campuses. Theo and Rana compare perspectives, discuss how AI has changed college, and ask whether AI is an accelerant to “win at all costs.”
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