The Most Interesting Thing in AI

The Future of Economic Power - Circle’s Jeremy Allaire with Nicholas Thompson

Technological waves often arrive with a promise. The internet was going to democratize information. Blockchain was going to decentralize power. Now, AI's boosters say it

The Race to Superintelligence - Richard Socher with Nicholas Thompson

As AI’s capabilities improve, reports of “rogue” agents and misaligned systems are becoming more frequent. In response, some activists, academics, and politicians have ca

How to Get Hired in the AI Era - Clara Shih with Nicholas Thompson

For years, tech CEOs have promised that AI will take on the menial, repetitive tasks that have long been a part of office life. Typically, those tasks are assigned to you

Kara Swisher on What Silicon Valley Is Getting Right—and Wrong—in AI

Kara Swisher has done a bit of everything. She’s covered the rise of Silicon Valley’s tech giants, founded and sold her own startup publication, and dabbled in Hollywood,

How AI Could Upend Global Politics - Ian Bremmer with Nicholas Thompson

AI may have leveled the playing field in coding and app development, but it’s also put potentially dangerous tools in reach of nefarious actors. Now, empowered by AI, sta

Writing in the Age of AI - Gemini Notebook’s Steven Johnson with Nicholas Thompson

Steven Johnson spent decades figuring out the best ways to turn his research into words on the page. Now, he’s adapting those methods for Gemini Notebook, Google’s AI-pow

Meta's Plan to Win in AI - Andrew Bosworth with Nicholas Thompson

However you feel about Meta, Andrew Bosworth has likely played a part in it. The long-serving right hand to Mark Zuckerberg and current Chief Technology Officer, “Boz” ha

AI’s Threat to Privacy — Signal’s Meredith Whittaker with Nicholas Thompson

AI agents can scour the internet for us, reply to our messages, and add events to our calendars. But in order to do so, they need sweeping access to our data. Handing tha

Will AI Agents Kill Social Media–Or Save It? Eli Pariser with Nicholas Thompson

Take a scroll through Facebook or TikTok today, and you’ll likely find some AI-generated content: an influencer with impossibly-radiant skin, a stunt that bends the laws

How AI Agents Are Changing Business - PwC’s Dan Priest with Nicholas Thompson

You've probably heard it already: AI is going to radically change the way we work. But the details change depending on who's making the prediction: AI will wipe out the C

How AI Is Changing Code - Paul Ford with Nicholas Thompson

In the last year, AI has arguably made more progress in coding than in any other domain. Its technical capabilities – harnessed through apps like Codex and Claude Code –

How Science Can Fix Dishonest AI - Yoshua Bengio with Nicholas Thompson

In the years following the launch of ChatGPT, as concerns spread over the social and political impacts of LLMs, one person’s warnings seemed particularly dire: Yoshua Ben

The AI Jobs Disruption - Erik Brynjolfsson with Nicholas Thompson

Of all the potential risks and promises of AI, perhaps none are as immediately dire as this: How will it impact jobs? Will employers still need workers? What will it mean

The Limits of Predictive AI - Carissa Véliz with Nicholas Thompson

Can AI predict a person’s future? It’s a promise often made by sales teams, but the technology’s record is far from spotless. Even if it did achieve perfect foresight, a

AI Utopia or Catastrophe? Nick Bostrom with Nicholas Thompson

Will AI destroy the world, or transform it into one of abundance? Across two books and several papers, philosopher Nick Bostrom has envisioned a range of AI futures. He j

The Case for Open-Source AI - with Nicholas Thompson and Raffi Krikorian

Why does AI answer the way it does? Even as models cite their sources, the question of “why” remains one of the most confounding in the industry, with huge implications f

Sam Altman on Where AI Models Go Next, with Nicholas Thompson

OpenAI’s Sam Altman sits for an interview with Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, to discuss AI’s trustworthiness, its dangers, and its impact on young people. Altma

Data Centers in Space - with Nicholas Thompson and Ariel Ekblaw

AI needs data centers, and those data centers need energy and cooling. Recently, one proposal has captured the popular imagination: put data centers in space, where there

Season 4 Trailer

Where does AI go next? And what happens to us? Join The Atlantic’s CEO Nicholas Thompson as he speaks with leaders, developers, philosophers, and more about AI’s impacts,

The Copyright Wars - with Nicholas Thompson and Bill Gross

In this episode, The Atlantic’s CEO Nicholas Thompson speaks with serial entrepreneur and Idealab founder Bill Gross about his latest venture, ProRata, a bold attempt to