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A New Way to Measure AI Safety for Kids
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Imran Khan sits down with Mathilde Collin, founder of Kora, the world’s leading benchmark for how AI models interact with children, about how and why she built this tool and what she learned in the process. At a time when two-thirds of US teenagers already use AI chatbots, tools like Kora are vital
An Historic AI Summit in Iceland, and a Conversation with its President
with its President
The Most Hopeful (And Concerning) Moment Yet in AI
with Guest
It’s been a whirlwind week in AI news. In this episode, Tristan shares how he’s feeling in this critical moment, breaks down the headlines from an insider's perspective, and points to tangible steps we can take right now to avoid the worst-case scenario.
Flock is Just the Beginning: Inside the Era of AI-Powered Policing
with Powered Policing
Enough Debate about the AI Jobpocalypse. We Need To Plan for the Messy Middle.
with Guest
In 1986, Reagan and Gorbachev met in Reykjavik for an informal conversation that made nuclear coordination imaginable. 40 years later, world leaders gathered in the same room to discuss how we can do the same for AI. Tristan and Aza were there. Listen to their dispatch from Iceland and a conversatio
Right now, across all levels of government, from small-town sheriffs to massive federal agencies, police are adopting AI technology at a staggering rate – and they're using it to build out an efficient, centralized surveillance-state apparatus. This week, we speak with two experts about how pol
With AI, what gets measured gets optimized. Right now, that's AI capability, not human wellbeing. In this episode, Aza Raskin talks with researchers Imran Khan & Jared Moore about Humane Evals: CHT's push to measure what AI does to us, not just what it can do.
It feels like we're stuck in an endless debate about what AI will mean for jobs and the economy. Caught in the middle of this debate are actual workers trying to figure out what this means for their livelihoods. Rather than continuing to referee this debate, economist Molly Kinder joins Tristan
