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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Why It’s So Hard to Make Welfare AI Fair
Join senior reporter for features and investigations, Eileen Guo, editor for features and investigations, Amanda Silverman, and investigative reporter at Lighthouse Reports, Gabriel Geiger, for a subscriber-only discussion on MIT Technology Review's recent Big Story, Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI.
Going live at 18:00 GMT / 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT
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Past Sessions
Monday, June 30, 2025
Inside OpenAI’s Empire with Karen Hao
AI journalist Karen Hao’s book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, tells the story of OpenAI’s rise to power and its far-reaching impact all over the world. Hear from Karen Hao, former MIT Technology Review senior editor, and executive editor Niall Firth for a conversation exploring the AI arms race, what it means for all of us, and where it’s headed.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
A New Look at AI’s Energy Use
Big Tech's appetite for energy is growing rapidly as adoption of AI accelerates. But just how much energy does even a single AI query use? And what does it mean for the climate? Hear from MIT Technology Review editor in chief Mat Honan, senior climate reporter Casey Crownhart, and AI reporter James O'Donnell as they explore AI's energy demands now and in the future.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Promise to Product
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been crowned the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2025 by MIT Technology Review's readers. BCIs are electrodes implanted into the brain to send neural commands to computers, primarily to assist paralyzed people. Hear from MIT Technology Review editor at large David Rotman and senior editor for biomedicine Antonio Regalado as they explore the past, present, and future of BCIs.
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
AI Chatbots Have Joined the Chat
Chatbots are quickly changing how we connect to each other and ourselves. But are these changes for the better? How should they be monitored and regulated? Hear from MIT Technology Review editor Rachel Courtland in conversation with reporter Rhiannon Williams and senior reporter Eileen Guo as they unpack the landscape around chatbots.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Generative AI Search and the Changing Internet
Generative AI search, one of MIT Technology Review's 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025, is ushering a new era of the internet. Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge. Hear from MIT Technology Review editor in chief Mat Honan and executive editor Niall Firth as they explore how AI will alter search.
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