Pioneers of AI
Hosted by Rana el Kaliouby and Rana · WaitWhat
4.3from 80 ratings
- 128
- Episodes
- 123
- Transcribed
- 80
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 471K
- YouTube views
About Pioneers of AI
Pioneers of AI is your guide to the latest technological frontier. Each week, host Rana el Kaliouby (AI scientist, investor, author, co-founder of Affectiva) is joined by the leading creators, critics, and thinkers behind mind-blowing technology and asks the important questions about how artificial intelligence is changing the way we live. As we venture together into the unknown, Pioneers is your tool to understanding and anticipating what comes next.
- Publisher
- WaitWhat
- Category
- business · news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Aug 2024
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
123 of 128 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is AGI already here? w/ Kevin Roose
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
OpenAI’s Tibo Sottiaux doesn’t want humans to be an ‘afterthought’
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Possible: Training robots for a world they've never seen
Inside a recent episode
Is AGI already here? w/ Kevin Roose
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] This book is not an attempt to tell people how to feel about AI or whether the people who are building it are good people or bad people. is really a descriptive narrative history. I am just trying to say, here is what is going on. I've talked to more than 150 people at the labs. I've spent a lot of time with Dario and Demis and Sam and Greg and all the headline figures in this world. And I'm just trying to get a sense of why they are racing and what they are racing toward. And for them, this is really the race. You know, people think, oh, it's just about money or it's just about power or it's just about control. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Pioneers of AI
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Kevin Roose
- Thibault Sottiaux
- Tibo Sottiaux
- Chelsea Finn
- Sherry Turkle
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 470,520
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 51 ratings
- Spotify
- 3.9 / 5
- 29 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100
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- Quality
- 89
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts Pioneers of AI?
Rana el Kaliouby and Rana host the show. Published by WaitWhat.
How often do new episodes come out?
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