SHIFT
Hosted by Jennifer Strong, SHIFT is a weekly podcast taking a closer look at the far-reaching impact of automation on our daily lives. From policy to process, we seek to understand how lives are changing alongside rapid breakthroughs in frontier technologies and artificial intelligence. Join us as we navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by this reshaped reality.
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Finding and Financing Critical Minerals
<p>Critical minerals are in just about every device you can think of, and there’s a global race underway to find and finance the production of these materials because they’re in short supply. </p><p>This week, we hear how Earth AI uses predictive algorithms to find new deposits and how TechMet’s capital and partnerships carry those opportunities through to production and market impact.</p><p><br></p><p>We Meet: </p><p>Roman Teslyuk is the CEO/CTO of EARTH AI </p><p>Brian Menell is the CEO of TechMet </p><p><br></p><p>Credits:</p><p>This episode...
AI, Risk, and the Future of Compliance
<p>As regulatory expectations rise, and financial crime grows more complex, risk management is shifting from static checks to continuous intelligence. From the stage at this year’s Web Summit Qatar, we looked at how AI and advanced data analytics are transforming compliance workflows.<br><br><br></p><p>We Meet: </p><p>Joel Lange is the executive vice president and general manager of Dow Jones Risk and Research</p><p><br></p><p>Credits:</p><p>This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music fro...
Ready for Fish-Free Fish?
<p>What would you say if someone offered you a taste of a salmon filet that doesn’t contain fish?</p><p>The protein content, carbs, and even the omega 3s are basically the same, but what it doesn’t contain are things like microplastics and mercury. </p><p>Join us for a factory tour of a startup called New School Foods for a peek at the next-generation of plant-based protein.</p><p><br></p><p>We Meet: </p><p>New School Foods CEO Chris Bryson</p><p><br></p><p>Credits:</p><p>This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jen...
Exploring Compute’s Next Frontier
<p>It’s not just AI software that’s rapidly shifting. One could argue that the very map of high performance computing is being redrawn, from OpenAI investing more than $10-billion in wafer-scale chips to breakthroughs in quantum research that are making that architecture much more useful. </p><p>This episode was taped in front of a live audience in Davos, Switzerland, on stage at The Drawing Room: AI and Exploration Salon held alongside the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. </p><p><br></p><p>We Meet: </p><p>Cerebras Systems CEO and Co-Founder Andrew Feldman</p><p>IonQ CE...
Putting AI Agents to Work in a High-Stakes Environment
<p>Figuring out what it takes to make agentic AI work in a high-stakes, real-world environment is front and center these days, because for the most part, we’re still figuring that out.</p><p>At this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, we get a first-hand look at the shift that’s taking place from agent demos to what a successful deployment looks like.</p><p><br></p><p>We Meet: </p><p>Shibani Ahuja is the SVP of Enterprise IT Strategy at Salesforce</p><p><br></p><p>Credits:</p><p>This episode of SHIF...
Hired by an Algorithm
<p>How do you feel about the use of artificial intelligence in the hiring process? Whether it sounds like a good way to remove human bias, a bad idea that could bake in machine bias, or something in between, you won't want to miss our deep dive with author and journalist Hilke Schellmann at the P&T Knitwear Bookstore in Manhattan.</p><p>This episode was taped in collaboration with All Tech is Human in New York City. </p><p><br></p><p>Credits:</p><p>We Meet: </p><p>Hilke Schellmann is an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter and assistant pro...
Tech Trends to Watch in 2026
<p>This week, we bring you an episode of another podcast anchored by our host, Jennifer Strong, called The Next Innovation. In it, we sit down with other prominent tech journalists to discuss the biggest tech trends to watch in 2026 - including how the different iterations of AI, including agentic AI, will shape the future of cybersecurity, finance, healthcare, and defense. </p><p><br></p><p>We Meet:</p><p>Freelance journalist Jeff Wilser has written for The New York Times, Wired, Time Magazine and many others. He’s also the author of 8 books.</p><p>London-based editor Charlotte Jee is...
Commercializing Our Space Age Future
<p>A live conversation about the state of the space industry with serial space entrepreneur Kam Ghaffarian, a co-founder of Axiom Space, Intuitive Machines, Quantum Space, and more, from the mainstage at Collision Conference in Toronto, Canada.</p><p>This episode first published on June 26th, 2024. </p><p><br></p><p>We meet: </p><p>Dr. Kamal "Kam" Ghaffarian</p><p><br></p><p>Credits:</p><p>This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong and Emma Cillekens, and it was mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg Marco.</p>
Companion Robots for Older Adults
<p>We meet a founder questioning the wisdom of the Turing Test as he works to address the loneliness epidemic among the elderly, in the latest installment of our oral history project.</p><p> </p><p>We Meet: </p><p>Intuition Robotics Founder Dor Skuler, maker of the ElliQ digital companion</p><p><br></p><p>Credits:</p><p>SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong and Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski. Art by Meg Marco.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode first published in August 2024. </p>
Uncovering How Biology Works
<p>The application of artificial intelligence to help discover new medicines could become one of the more transformative ways we use this tech in the near term. A key player in this space is Recursion Pharmaceuticals. Its outgoing CEO Chris Gibson takes us on a tour of the world's largest phenomics lab in Salt Lake City, Utah.</p><p><br></p><p>We Meet: </p><p>Recursion Co-Founder Chris Gibson</p><p><br></p><p>Credits:</p><p>This episode of SHIFT was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from Emma Cillekens. It was mixed by Garret Lang, with original m...
