Sophia Dew interviews Stanford NLP Group founder Chris Manning on why universities are uniquely suited to be independent AI safety evaluators, the risks of client capture with existing IVOs like…
Francesca LaBianca joins MTS to discuss Factory's approach to self-improving software, sovereign intelligence for enterprise deployment, and model-agnostic systems that give developers choice across…
Jeetu Patel joins MTS to discuss Cisco's partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI on AI-powered vulnerability detection, the shift from human-scale to machine-scale cybersecurity defense, and how AI…
Brian Chau joins MTS to discuss his investigation into Irregular's role in recent AI cybersecurity incidents, the involvement of effective altruism organizations in AI evaluation firms, and the need…
Ben Hilborn joins MTS to discuss grid capacity constraints, the case for keeping AI data centers connected to local power grids, and strategies for achieving true solar-driven energy abundance. Check…
Judge Glock joins MTS to discuss regulating AI through tort liability instead of top-down bureaucracies, how companies can internalize harms to drive alignment, and the fiscal benefits of data…
Rohit Krishnan joins MTS to discuss AI's ability to solve Millennium Prize problems, the gap between mathematical capabilities and practical automation, and how societies adapt to technological…
Stephen Hsu joins MTS to discuss his documentary Machine God about the race to ASI, the concepts of techno capital and recursive self-improvement, and how gradual disempowerment will shape humanity's…
MTS host Sophia Dew visits the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco to ask researchers and founders across the AI stack a central question: can open source prevent AI power from concentrating in…
a16z General Partner Julie Yoo joins MTS host Sophia Dew to explain why she believes healthcare could benefit more from AI than almost any other industry, and why decades of slow technology adoption…
For today's industry news, MTS host Sophia Dew discuss major AI infrastructure funding trends, rapid valuation growth among hardware and security startups, and how massive data center demands are…
Can open source prevent AI power from concentrating? Co-author of Attention Is All You Need, Lukasz Kaiser, argues power concentration is a property of the transformer, not a permanent feature of…
a16z Managing Partner and Head of Global Partnerships Jen Kha joins MTS hosts Theo Jaffee and Sophia Dew to discuss a16z's Machine Age Fund and the investment thesis behind rebuilding the physical…
Martin Casado joins MTS hosts Theo Jaffee and Sophia Dew to unpack where value is actually accruing in AI, why this technology cycle looks fundamentally different from previous waves, and whether the…
Sophia Dew and Sofia Puccini are joined by Ruby Thelot, designer, artist, cyberethnographer, professor at NYU, and founder of 13101401, for a wide-ranging conversation about internet culture, AI,…
Sophia Dew and Binji Pande speak with Vitalik Buterin about technology, human agency, and how the internet is changing the way people think, build, and relate to the world around them. Drawing from…