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  • Replay: What my kids taught me about the AI divide

    October 21, 2026 · 47 min

    It often feels like the world is divided when it comes to AI — do you lean in, or opt out? But what if that tension exists within your own household? This week, we're reprising a candid conversation between host Rana el Kaliouby and her…

  • Is AGI already here? w/ Kevin Roose

    October 14, 2026 · 38 min

    Journalist Kevin Roose has closely watched and written about the AI race for about a decade, and his new book “The AGI Chronicles” documents the handful of driven people at the center of OpenAI, Google Deepmind, and Anthropic – along with…

  • OpenAI’s Tibo Sottiaux doesn’t want humans to be an ‘afterthought’

    October 7, 2026 · 37 min

    Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux is OpenAI’s head of Product & Platform, making him responsible for the AI tools used by more than a billion users worldwide. Host Rana el Kaliouby spoke with Tibo about why he’s “proud” OpenAI delayed its latest…

  • Possible: Training robots for a world they've never seen

    September 30, 2026 · 58 min

    On this week’s episode we’re excited to share an episode from our sister podcast Possible, a podcast that sketches out the brightest vision of the future. Useful robots won’t be programmed one task at a time; they’ll need to adapt to…

  • The slippery slope of artificial intimacy

    September 23, 2026 · 40 min

    For the past four decades Sherry Turkle has studied the social and psychological implications of AI. She’s the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, founding director of the MIT Initiative…

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  • The ROI on AI is obvious in these industries

    September 16, 2026 · 38 min

    Rudina Seseri is the Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, recently named one of America’s Top Venture Capital Firms of 2026 by TIME and Statista. With a focus on early-stage AI-powered companies, Rudina has been investing in…

  • Rapid Response: When AI agents do your shopping, everything changes, with Shopify’s Jess Hertz

    September 14, 2026 · 30 min

    For decades, e-commerce rewarded the biggest brands that could buy their way to the top of search results. AI is changing that. Shopify COO Jess Hertz joins Rapid Response to share what Shopify's data reveals about the agentic shopping…

  • Zapier wants to be the AI hub where all your agents connect

    September 9, 2026 · 36 min

    Fifteen years ago Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier, co-founded the software company with a simple idea: link thousands of apps that were never designed to talk to each other, so people could work seamlessly between them. Now, he's turning Zapier…

  • Axios’ Ina Fried reads the AI fine print, so you don’t have to

    September 2, 2026 · 36 min

    In the world of AI, data is king. And in reporting on tech for nearly 30 years, Axios’ Chief Technology Correspondent Ina Fried has extensively covered concerns around consumer data, privacy, and Big Tech. In the latest edition of her…

  • Rapid Response: What the jobs report isn't telling you about AI & the workforce, with Upwork’s Hayden Brown

    August 31, 2026 · 30 min

    Few leaders have a better real-time read on how AI is actually reshaping the workforce than Hayden Brown. As CEO of Upwork, the platform where 18 million freelancers meet the businesses that need them, she sees what the monthly jobs report…

  • Government benefits are broken. Is AI the fix?

    August 26, 2026 · 35 min

    Stories of people standing in line for hours to get their drivers license or being wrongfully denied government food assistance are common in America. Few people think, “I can solve this problem.” But the CEO of Promise, Phaedra…

  • World Models: a trillion dollar opportunity

    August 19, 2026 · 41 min

    In the first half of 2026 alone, investors poured $3 billion into the next frontier of AI: World Models. Google DeepMind, Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, Yann LeCunn’s AMI labs, and Odyssey are all building in this space. In this episode, host…

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About the show

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.