In this episode of Me, Myself, and AI, host Sam Ransbotham speaks with Vineet Khosla, CTO of The Washington Post, about how AI is reshaping the way news is produced, delivered, and consumed. Vineet argues that journalism itself isn’t broken — but the formats people use to consume news are rapidly evolving, especially as audiences…
In an increasingly divisive world, even information backed by scientific evidence can be polarizing. In U.S. politics, Republicans and Democrats have grown so opposed that they often struggle to agree on even the most basic facts, making it exceedingly difficult for them to have meaningful debates or conversations. Yet there exists a narrow and often-overlooked area…
Eliot Wyatt/Ikon Images For most of modern business times, competitive advantage belonged to whoever had the best ideas. Better ideas meant better products, which meant more customers, which meant more revenue and profit. The entire innovation industry — consultancies, design firms, brainstorming retreats fueled by sticky notes and gallons of La Croix — was built…
Gina Fong would like to offer some feedback … on feedback. Fong, a consumer anthropologist and clinical assistant professor of marketing at the Kellogg School, wants us to rethink the ways we give and receive evaluation in the workplace. And she starts by dispelling a common myth. “We are told a lie with…
Before AI came for your job, it came for the biologists’. In 2020, Google DeepMind researchers unveiled AlphaFold2, an AI model that tackled a major scientific challenge: Is it possible to determine a protein’s structure from its ingredients alone? The ability to do so without slow and expensive lab experiments carried the potential to revolutionize…
In Europe, over a fifth of the population is at least 65 years old. In Japan, the figure is nearly 30 percent. And the World Health Organization projects the percentage of people across the globe who are over 60 years old will reach 22 percent by 2050, just about double what it was in 2015. …
Over a century ago, the economist Thorstein Veblen popularized the age-old idea that by purchasing luxury goods, and displaying them, people can communicate their elevated reputation—such as their wealth, success, or competence. This practice, which he referred to as “conspicuous consumption,” has been going on for millennia. Studies of Neolithic societies, for example, show evidence…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images More than a year into using generative AI daily, I wondered whether I was getting the most out of my AI use. There was no benchmark or feedback loop, and no one was grading my sessions with ChatGPT and Claude — until I created a self-audit. I did what…
Biotech companies face the same dilemma as businesses in other industries: Innovation drops off dramatically with scale. European biotech Argenx has reached a market value of more than $40 billion, having so far escaped that innovation trap. How has it done this? The company shuns hierarchy and instead organizes into small teams, each dedicated to…
The most important economic question in the AI era is not how many jobs will be replaced. It is whether AI is expanding human capacity: what we can imagine, do, and want. Youngjin Yoo argues that the demand frontier of human capacity — the outer limit of what people want, attempt, and are willing to…