Your guide to the new tech frontier
Pioneers of AI Podcast
Each week, host Dr. 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.
Hear from the trailblazers leading the AI revolution
Entrepreneurs, engineers, artists, and more share what the fascinating discoveries they've made while staking their claim in the AI space. Their stories and insights reveal what’s happening behind the headlines in the fast-accelerating world of AI.
Reid Hoffman
Co-founder: LinkedIn, Inflection AI
Dr. Joy Buolamwini
President, The Algorithmic
Justice League
Kevin Roose
NYT Tech Columnist
…and more!
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Meet Your Host
Dr. Rana el Kaliouby
Dr. Rana el Kaliouby is on a mission to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us. As the co-founder of AI startup Affectiva, with a PhD in machine learning and computer vision from Cambridge University and postdoc from MIT, she has spent over two decades as a leading innovator in AI, pioneering the field of Emotion AI. Dr. Kaliouby is a co-founder and general partner at Blue Tulip Ventures, where she invests in early stage startups building ethical AI that is good for people.
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The podcast covering the what, how, and why of AI
Pioneers of AI is your guide to the latest technological frontier. Each week, host Dr. 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.
Get to the heart of the AI discussion
This wave of AI innovation is about more than exciting technology. It's changing our society. The way we interact. The way we think and feel. By going in-depth with the AI insiders leading this societal shift, Pioneers cuts to the core of what really matters for both business leaders and everyday users.
“We really need to … build better [AI] tools, test those tools for discrimination, and use less discriminatory algorithms.”
— Hilke Schellmann, author of The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now
“We’ve always built technology. That’s what humans do. … but now this toolkit is actually giving us cognitive superpowers.”
— Karim Lakhani, Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
“One of the things about the agentic [AI] future is going to be establishing trust. Not just gaining trust, but actually being a faithful holder of trust … you want to be worthy of the trust.”
— Reid Hoffman, Co-founder: LinkedIn, Inflection AI
