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Artificial Intelligence
Interviews with scholars of Artificial Intelligence about their new books.
October 7, 2026
Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions
What does it mean to learn when algorithms increasingly shape how knowledge is produced, organized, and interpreted? Editors Elizabeth de Freitas, Mat…
October 4, 2026
Obsolete
Today I’m speaking with Garrison Lovely, technology journalist and author of the new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace…
September 2, 2026
Divination Engines
Since the advent of computers, society has fantasized about conversing with machines. In Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial I…
August 23, 2026
Journalism in the Age of AI
What if AI’s biggest impact on journalism isn’t replacing journalists, but forcing us to rethink what journalism is for? In this episode, Joanne Kuai…
August 3, 2026
Beyond the Facts
Beyond the Facts: Tacit Knowledge and the Hidden Infrastructure of Our Informed Times (Bloomsbury, 2025) describes tacit knowledge, what it is, how …
July 31, 2026
Coding Capitalism
Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer technology shaped how people worked, how markets operated, and how businesses became big. After W…
July 12, 2026
The Emerging Anocracy
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Acting Director Eli Karetny sits down with Alexis Cruz, founder of Enough Consulting and former strateg…
July 10, 2026
Grounding the Cloud
Since the 1990s, technologists have promoted a vision of the “cloud” as a shapeless and intangible entity. Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow…
July 3, 2026
The Problem with Personalization
A respected voice on technology shows how seemingly simple ads help dismantle democracy and public discourse. Whether you’re intentionally shopping o…
June 25, 2026
The Honesty Crisis
Research shows that honesty is the single most important characteristic a person can possess when it comes to liking them, respecting them, and unders…
June 18, 2026
Reinvention in an Era of Volatility
Caroline Stokes is a strategist who works with C-Suites and Boards to lead their organizations through AI disruption, climate risk, and geopolitical i…
June 14, 2026
Can Robots Love God and Be Saved?
One of the things that stood out in my conversation with John Longhurst about his book Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Faith…
June 12, 2026
AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead
Like many people, I've been following the developments of AI, testing out new models and following the deluge of news stories about the fight for supr…
June 6, 2026
Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias
More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "La Divina Assoluta," remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensational…
June 4, 2026
Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around
Phil Gilbert is best known for leading IBM’s transformation as their General Manager of Design, a project that updated the work of 400,000 IBM employe…
June 4, 2026
In Search of Trustworthy AI
Craig Hatkoff has spent four decades at the intersection of innovation, culture-building, and institutional transformation. He pioneered commercial mo…
May 30, 2026
The Master Algorithm
In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge …
May 26, 2026
What AI Means for Fiction
How is the tool of Artificial Intelligence shaping the writing of fiction? Is AI emerging as more than just a potentially handy aid to an author—and, …
May 24, 2026
How Deeply Human Is Language?
How Deeply Human Is Language? Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy (MIT Press, 2026) is Yosef Grodzinsky’s exploration of the criticality of the lin…
May 6, 2026
The Coming Storm
From a renowned Yale historian comes a chilling look at the looming threat of the next Great Power war and the urgent interventions necessary to avoid…