*Where big questions meet bold ideas*
Agents of Tech is a video podcast exploring the biggest questions of our time—featuring bold thinkers and transformative ideas driving change. Perfect for the curious, the thoughtful and anyone invested in what’s next for our planet.
Hosted by Stephen Horn, former BBC producer turned entrepreneur and CEO, Autria Godfrey, Emmy Award-winning journalist and Laila Rizvi, neuroscience and tech researcher, the show features conversations with trailblazers reshaping the scientific frontier.
Turing Award winner John Hennessy argues that even a few percent more productivity a year adds up in an economy the size of America's, and explains why the return could take time to show up.John Hennessy shared the 2017 Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing, for work that shaped the modern microprocessor. He served as president of Stanford University for 16 years and is chairman of Alphabet, Google's parent company. In this conversation, he explains what AI has to deliver to justify the money pouring into it, why reasoning is the next frontier, and how he thinks the technology should be regulated.In his words: "It's a new Industrial Revolution. It's one that potentially is much larger size than earlier ones. But it's going to play out over time."
27 Sept 2026
Can We Have AI and a Liveable Planet?
Boris Gamazaychikov measured AI's footprint inside Salesforce and co-created a star rating for AI models. Now he sorts the real climate numbers from the fake ones. Sam Altman calls AI's water numbers "totally fake." Critics say one chat uses a whole bottle. The truth depends on which AI, and where it runs.He now works at Sustainable AI Group, which estimates the energy, carbon and water use of closed AI models and pushes AI companies to be more open about it.
26 Sept 2026
The verdict: AI's Success Is The Danger
In this Agents of Tech episode, Autria Godfrey, Laila Rizvi and Stephen Horn revisit four of the sharpest voices in AI, and their answers could not be further apart:🔹 Gary Marcus, cognitive scientist and AI author, argues we're probably in a financial bubble and that LLMs are "just not as smart as they look."🔹 Emily Bender, professor and author of The AI Con, says the hype is driven by money, marketing and access to power.🔹 Derya Unutmaz, immunologist and our most optimistic guest ever, believes AI will save billions of lives, but warns the road there will be painful and no one is preparing for it.🔹 Santa Ono of the Ellison Institute of Technology at Oxford makes the historical case for calm: technology eliminates jobs, but it creates new ones too.Everyone is worried the AI bubble will burst. The bigger danger might be what happens if it doesn't.The world has bet trillions of dollars on artificial intelligence. If the bet fails, we lose the money. If it pays off, we could face mass disruption to jobs, education and society, and nobody has a plan for it.Then the hosts deliver their verdict. Are AI valuations overhyped? Do the hyperscalers know something we don't? And if AI truly succeeds, who is getting society ready for what comes next?
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