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When AI Takes the Wheel: Rethinking Education for a Post-Scarcity World
This week's episode of Modem Futura explores the intersection between AI, learning, and education – and gets really speculative as we think about…
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Reimagining learning and education in an age of AI
Reflections and provocations from a keynote given at the 2025 Yidan Prize Conference
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Tech Trends 2025: Living Intelligence, Quantum Breakthroughs, and Beyond
This week's episode of Modem Futura focuses on Amy Webb's Future Today Strategy Group’s 2025 Tech Trends Report
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When Agentic AI Takes Charge – First impressions of Manus
Having just got my hands on the new general AI agent from Manus I was excited to see what it could do. So I asked it to design, conduct and write up a…
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Hype, Hope, and the Human Element in AI and Education
This week's episode of Modem Futura touches on OpenAI's rumored $20k AI tiers, the Ethic of Care in classrooms, and how Dewey’s “four impulses” can…
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Rethinking Higher Education in the Age of AI
How embracing playful experimentation can redefine universities in an era of limitless intelligence
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AI in Higher Education: Students need playgrounds, not playpens
AI capabilities are moving so fast, and the implications are so profound, that we restrict the ability of students to learn through curiosity…
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The "hard" concept of care in technology innovation
Does a lack of care in how we develop and use new technologies risk turning us and our creations into "monsters?"
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Photography in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
This week's episode of Modem Futura explores the changing relationship between photographer and photograph as AI transforms the art of image making
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AI and the lure of permissionless innovation
What could possibly go wrong as we prize the guardrails of responsibility off artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies?
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This is NOT a podcast about AI
This week on Modem Futura Sean and I try desperately hard not to talk about AI, and end up chatting about tech, story telling, sci-fi, and the art of…
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An AI model that can decode and design living organisms
The Arc Institute's new EVO 2 model does for DNA what ChatGPT did for words
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AI: The Medium is the "Massage?"
Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message, and other highlights from this week's episode of Modem Futura
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The Artisanal Intellectual in the Age of AI
How is advanced artificial intelligence forcing a rethink of the value of human intellectual labor?
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AI humility, artisanal intellectuals, and Reid Hoffman's Superagency
Some of the highlights in this week's episode of Modem Futura
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Can AI write your PhD dissertation for you?
I spent four days trying to get OpenAI's new tool Deep Research to research and write a complete dissertation. This is what I discovered.
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Does OpenAI's Deep Research signal the end of human-only scholarship?
Having got my hands on Sam Altman's latest AI offering yesterday, I'm beginning to wonder when research and scholarship that isn't augmented by AI will…
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AI turned my class into a song — and I can’t stop listening
One of my student used ChatGPT and Suno to create a musical ode to my Pizza and a Slice of Future class, and it’s awesome!
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AI at a Crossroads: The Unfinished Work of Aligning Technology with Humanity
Where the Vatican and AI Scientists Converge, Collide, and Challenge Us to Think Differently
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I asked ChatGPT to create three video games – this is what happened
Generative AI is making it easier than ever for people with no prior experience to experiment with writing code. But just how big a deal is the…
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Is this the year of agentic AI?
In this week's episode of Modem Future Sean Leahy and I dive into a bunch of AI-related stuff, starting with Sam Altman's start-of-the-year reflections…
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WEF: "The global outlook is increasingly fractured"
This year's Annual Risks Report from the World Economic Forum highlights growing global challenges, but concludes technological risks are still under…
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Are your car's autonomous features dangerously out of calibration?
My co-host Sean Leahy and I are joined by advanced driver-assistance systems expert Brunno Moretti on this week's episode of Modem Futura as we explore…
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Frequently Asked Questions on Using ChatGPT in the Classroom
After two years of procrastinating I finally updated a set of FAQs that I compiled for colleagues back in 2023 – in part because I couldn't find…
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