Pioneers of AI
Pioneers of AI is your guide to the latest technological frontier. Each week, host Rana el Kaliouby (AI scientist, investor, author, co-founder of Affectiva) is joined by the leading creators, critics, and thinkers behind mind-blowing 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.
Episodes (123)
Rapid Response: When AI agents do your shopping, everything changes, with Shopif...
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Zapier wants to be the AI hub where all your agents connect
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Axios’ Ina Fried reads the AI fine print, so you don’t have to
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Rapid Response: What the jobs report isn't telling you about AI & the workforce,...
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Government benefits are broken. Is AI the fix?
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World Models: a trillion dollar opportunity
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Rapid Response: OpenAI’s Critterz blowback — Director Nik Kleverov on year zero...
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Replay: Could a robot fix the loneliness epidemic?
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The deep AI shifts that will reshape our lives
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Why AI conversations are always one-sided
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Rapid Response: The quiet reinvention of a $42b business, with Canva’s Cameron A...
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WorkLab: Culture, not tech, softens AI’s impact
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Stanford’s Silicon Valley pipeline, investigated
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What my kids taught me about the AI divide
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AI on the pitch at The World Cup
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Masters of Scale: IBM’s $10 billion bet on what comes after AI
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Reid Hoffman says the AI race is not a cage match
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What we risk losing to AI, w/ Natalie Monbiot
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Rapid Response: The race no one can win: AI’s anti-human crisis, with Aza Raskin
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Does AI know you better than your doctor? w/ Ōura CEO Tom Hale
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Reimagining business school through AI with MasterClass CEO David Rogier
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Rapid Response: Duolingo’s battle for learning in an AI world, with Luis von Ahn
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What it means to be raised by AI
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How fast can you upskill in AI? We did a sprint to find out.
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Possible: Should we give AI a bank account?
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I gave AI a year of my life: tech journalist Joanna Stern
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John Deere's AI vision for future farms
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ChatGPT doesn’t want you to email your ex
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Mining the minerals to power AI
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What is agentic commerce? Stripe’s CRO of AI explains.
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SXSW Keynote: Humanize AI before it dehumanizes us, with Dr. Rana el Kaliouby
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How AI is reshaping Wall Street
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AI Roundup: Anthropic, OpenClaw, layoffs, and more
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Could a robot fix the loneliness epidemic?
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We have a power grid problem. Can AI fix it?
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Possible: R.I.P. Computer Keyboard (1964 – 2025)
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Can an AI agent be your CEO?
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Hey Siri, who made you?
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Replay: Love in the age of AI
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The “ChatGPT moment” for agentic AI
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How AI is powering Olympic-level wellness
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How to network in a ‘non-icky way’
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Meet the robots and drones working in warehouses
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How SaaS can survive the AI revolution, with Aaron Levie
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Can AI cure doctor burnout?
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Rapid Response: Rana’s AI forecast for 2026, with Bob Safian
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AI’s journey from the lab to the marketplace
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‘Like Disneyland when it just opened’: Arm CEO Rene Haas on the AI revolution
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Visualizing the AI boom (or bubble), with Carta’s Peter Walker
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Walmart, AI, and the future of shopping, with Walmart CTO Suresh Kumar
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