AI and the Human Future

Daniel Altman and Emily Carter

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AI is not just a technology revolution. It is a human revolution. Hosted by Daniel Altman and Emily Carter, this podcast explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the way we work, invest, learn, and live.

1d ago

Bring Your Own Wind Farm: Ireland's Bet on the AI Boom

Europe spent years writing the AI rulebook, then started easing it. Daniel and Emily dig into Ireland's national playbook — a €200 million retraining fund, regulators assigned by sector, and a grid rule that makes hyperscalers fund their own renewables — and ask what it actually delivers for workers, startups, and the power bill. ## Hosts ### Daniel Altman Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities. ### Emily Carter Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership. ## Sources - https://www.fastcompany.com/91627640/ireland-wants-a-bigger-piece-of-the-ai-boom-its-enterprise-minister-explains-how?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss ## Episode Information Language: en Published: 2026-10-22T21:52:34.735777+00:00
2d ago

Robot Garbagemen, Robot Legislators: The Case for Handing AI the Wheel

A widely read essay argues that putting aligned AIs into positions of control might be the pro-human move — and it has AI safety people arguing with each other. Daniel and Emily separate the real claim from the scary one, then ask what would have to be true before any of it is safe to try. ## Hosts ### Daniel Altman Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities. ### Emily Carter Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership. ## Sources - https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/against-against-handover - https://piratewires.substack.com/p/did-this-ai-research-breakthrough - https://www.econlib.org/econlog/sams-links-september-edition - https://www.latent.space/p/tenex ## Episode Information Language: en Published: 2026-10-21T22:00:56.492773+00:00
3d ago

Nothing Has to Be: Can a City Decide Where AI Goes?

New York's mayor says Washington has walked away from AI regulation and that the feeling of AI inevitability is manufactured, so he has banned AI in elementary and middle schools and forced disclosure of AI-made listing photos in housing. Two co-hosts test whether city rules and citizen pressure are real power, or a holding action while the wave keeps coming. ## Hosts ### Daniel Altman Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities. ### Emily Carter Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership. ## Sources - https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/mamdani-says-feds-have-abdicated-on-ai-urges-new-yorkers-to-push-back/ ## Episode Information Language: en Published: 2026-10-20T21:40:09.031199+00:00
4d ago

Faster, Not Smarter? What a Million AI Agents Actually Buy You

Labs keep promising that armies of AI agents working in parallel are the road to superintelligence. A prominent futurist just argued the opposite — that parallelization is an input with diminishing returns — and Daniel and Emily take the argument apart, from proof steps that refuse to parallelize to the human review queue where the disruption actually lands. ## Hosts ### Daniel Altman Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities. ### Emily Carter Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership. ## Sources - https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/can-a-million-ai-agents-create-superintelligence ## Episode Information Language: en Published: 2026-10-19T21:34:14.045100+00:00
5d ago

Honey the Badger Tours the Data Center

As communities push back against sprawling, power-hungry data center campuses, industry-friendly groups are turning to a time-tested tactic: a children's book, sponsored craft kits for first graders, even their own holiday. Daniel and Emily trace the playbook back a century and ask where education ends and narrative-building begins. ## Hosts ### Daniel Altman Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities. ### Emily Carter Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership. ## Sources - https://www.wired.com/story/data-center-industry-is-trying-to-woo-kids/ ## Episode Information Language: en Published: 2026-10-18T21:24:04.720157+00:00
6d ago

Green Lights, Wrong Answers: Trusting AI Agents That Fail Silently

Before a recent launch, an AWS team's internal AI agent turned $410.08 of a customer's revenue into '$410.08 Million' — fluent, confident, and wrong, while every monitoring dashboard stayed green. Daniel and Emily dig into why agents fail silently, whether evaluation can become the operating system of trust, and what's left for human judgment when the machine drafts the answer. ## Hosts ### Daniel Altman Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities. ### Emily Carter Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership. ## Sources - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/building-trust-in-ai-agents-a-production-ready-evaluation-framework-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore/ ## Episode Information Language: en Published: 2026-10-17T21:26:30.455064+00:00
Oct 16

The Invisible AI That's Already Changing Science

Google Research's chief says AI has quietly transformed scientific discovery, but most people only feel the technology through chatbots and job anxiety. We dig into why the gap between invisible progress and direct impact matters. ## Hosts ### Daniel Altman Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities. ### Emily Carter Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership. ## Sources - https://www.fastcompany.com/91624458/james-manyika-google-research?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss ## Episode Information Language: en Published: 2026-10-16T21:13:18.840804+00:00
Oct 15

Safety Signal or Sales Pitch? Judging AI Risk Warnings Without the Conspiracy Lens

Frontier labs warn their own products could be catastrophic, and a popular rebuttal calls the whole thing a corporate plot to hype, distract, or lock in regulation. Daniel and Emily test that theory against researcher surveys, a messy firing scandal, an old fable about belling a cat, and eight state lawsuits, and end with a filter any listener can carry. ## Hosts ### Daniel Altman Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities. ### Emily Carter Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership. ## Sources - https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ai-safety-is-not-a-corporate-plot - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SwYBLQvo8MddDcCwz/cat-belling-problems - https://www.normaltech.ai/p/steering-ai-beyond-automation - https://www.understandingai.org/p/openais-ironic-credibility-problem - https://www.platformer.news/openai-states-lawsuit-liability/ ## Episode Information Language: en Published: 2026-10-15T21:58:30.231676+00:00

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Daniel Altman and Emily Carter
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2026
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122
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AI and the Human Future

AI and the Human Future

Episodes

Bring Your Own Wind Farm: Ireland's Bet on the AI Boom

Robot Garbagemen, Robot Legislators: The Case for Handing AI the Wheel

Nothing Has to Be: Can a City Decide Where AI Goes?

Faster, Not Smarter? What a Million AI Agents Actually Buy You

Honey the Badger Tours the Data Center

Green Lights, Wrong Answers: Trusting AI Agents That Fail Silently

The Invisible AI That's Already Changing Science

Safety Signal or Sales Pitch? Judging AI Risk Warnings Without the Conspiracy Lens

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