Episodes

  • Conservation X Labs’ Alex Deghan: “Why go to Mars? it’s a failed version of earth”

    Conservation X Labs’ Alex Deghan: “Why go to Mars? it’s a failed version of earth”
    Jul 19 2024
    The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Alex Deghan, founder of Conservation X Labs, to talk about avoiding the sixth mass extinction (3:00), getting near a tipping point in the Amazon (11:40), raising money from tech billionaires (14:40), growing up in northern Idaho (17:50), almost dying from malaria (20:00), rebuilding science in Iraq (23:30), close calls (30:40), setting up the first national park in Afghanistan (33:10), optimism (39:15), air conditioning (42:15), and building their own products (47:10).

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    51 mins
  • UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “AI is a misinformation amplifier”

    UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “AI is a misinformation amplifier”
    Jul 12 2024
    The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Hany Farid, a digital forensic professor, to talk about launching a cybersecurity startup called Get Real Labs (3:00), the growing capability of AI to create totally believable images (6:45), and video (9:00), the Slovakia election example (12:00), the end of shared truth (15:30), why we might learn the lessons from social media regulation failures (20:50), how AI could make things far worse, pre and post election in America (23:45), and how he managed to start a company while also being a university professor (27:00).

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    34 mins
  • Deep Sky’s Fred Lalonde - Holiday replay!

    Deep Sky’s Fred Lalonde - Holiday replay!
    Jul 6 2024
    Happy July 4th! Running back one of our favorite episodes from last summer - Fred Lalonde of Deep Sky, who speaks eloquently about the need to bury every ton of CO2 emitted since the Industrial Revolution. Enjoy!

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • PagerDuty's Jennifer Tejada: "Going public is the wedding, staying public is the marriage"

    PagerDuty's Jennifer Tejada: "Going public is the wedding, staying public is the marriage"
    Jun 28 2024
    When a website goes down, companies lose an average of $500,000 per minute. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jennifer Tejada, chief executive of PagerDuty, a company founded to keep that from happening (2:45). She talks about growing up in a small town (8:00), using supercomputers in the 1990’s to sell consumer products (12:30), coming to the West Coast via Australia (14:00), working around the world (16:30), operating as an outsider (18:15), defending DEI (21:00), the crossover of pro sports and tech (25:00), and going public (28:30).

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    34 mins
  • Limbic’s Ross Harper: “AI won’t replace doctors, it will enhance them”

    Limbic’s Ross Harper: “AI won’t replace doctors, it will enhance them”
    Jun 21 2024
    The world is aflutter with talk of "AI doctors". A UK company has actually built one. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dr Ross Harper, co founder and chief executive of Limbic to talk about creating a clinical AI chatbot (4:30), how it works (6:40), starting out four years ago 13:40), getting in with 40% of mental health care providers in Britain (17:40), being certified as a medical device (22:40), targeting America (24:40), studying computational neuroscience (27:00), starting the company (33:40), the future of AI in medicine (38:00), and the comparison to self-driving vehicles (41:15).

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    47 mins
  • Galvanize's Tom Steyer: "We're winning the climate fight"

    Galvanize's Tom Steyer: "We're winning the climate fight"
    Jun 14 2024
    The climate fight is going far better than you realise. So says this week’s guest, Tom Steyer, former presidential candidate and founder of Galvanize Climate Solutions. He comes on to talk with Sunday Times correspondent Danny Fortson about why doomerism doesn’t work (4:30), beating Big Oil (8:45), when theory meets reality (15:10), whether the climate argument has been won (21:30), his life before dedicating his career to climate (30:20), dabbling in politics (36:30), running a climate investment firm (41:00), running for president (44:00), and the possibility that the oil industry will transform (51:10).

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    55 mins
  • X Prize's Peter Diamandis: "Talking to your dog and extending life"

    X Prize's Peter Diamandis: "Talking to your dog and extending life"
    Jun 8 2024

    Do you want to talk to your whales? Monkeys? Your dog? AI will make it possible. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Peter Diamandis to talk about why he set up an $111m longevity prize (2:30), using AI to prevent death from “something stupid” (8:30), growing up in the Bronx (11:50), falling in love with space exploration (14:00), launching the X Prize (19:50), doing 30 of them in 30 years (26:30), his approach to AI innovation (29:15), speaking to animals (30:00), the power of a prize (33:00), why its hard to get the mega-rich to fund ideas (39:30), optimism (44:50), climate change (47:00), the future of longevity (51:00), and bitcoin (57:00).



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    59 mins
  • Renaissance's Tom Kalil: "Transforming philanthropy"

    Renaissance's Tom Kalil: "Transforming philanthropy"
    May 31 2024
    There are about 1,200 billionaires in Europe and America. Why don't they do more good with their money? This week's guest reckons he can get them to do just that. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tom Kalil, founder of Renaissance Philanthropy, to talk about why he created the organisation (4:15), nationalism (8:00), the problem with the current philanthropy model (11:15), leveraging tech and science (16:40), his background in Washington DC and the White House (22:20), working for Eric Schmidt (31:20), taking big swings (33:45), and the changing nature of giving (38:00),

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    45 mins