The New Deal

We travel to Silicon Valley where Astro Teller welcomes us inside X, Google's secretive innovation laboratory, to explain how one of the most powerful companies on earth is building the future. X is working on everything from creating new antibiotics to restoring internet connectivity after natural disasters. And they're not alone. Tech companies are increasingly involved in building infrastructure, and even playing the role of government. But what kind of power does this give them? And what can we do to rein it in? In this episode: Astro Teller of X, Lina Khan of Columbia Law School, Sal Candido & Pamela Desrochers of Loon, Jack Clark of OpenAI, and Jamie Susskind, author of "Future Politics".  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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Were we sleeping when everything changed? Seems like the technologically driven future is already here. On kill switch, we explain the right NOW of our supercharged technological lives. Ask ourselves who is in control? Can we beat the computer or are we going to need to throw the kill switch?  New host Dexter Thomas, Jr answers questions big and small – like who made Shrimp Jesus and why? To how and why you very well could get arrested by a computer. And we’ll be bringing the DIY back to tech – How to Now on everything from how to run your own LLM to tips to mitigate your exposure online.