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  • Naomi Brockwell, Founder of NBTV Media, discusses the true cost of “free tools,” and why we need a major mindset shift when it comes to trading value for value. She also discusses the illusion of privacy versus the reality that data brokers are working in, and how AI may make the data broker’s job obsolete.

    Key Takeaways:

    The easiest ways to reduce your digital footprint, and unpacking the switching costs of transitioning to privacy respecting alternatives.

    How AI can democratize the playing field between data brokers and everyday users.

    What to look for when choosing a reputable VPN.

    Guest Bio: Naomi Brockwell is a tech journalist, creator of NBTV.media, and author of "Beginner’s Introduction to Privacy.” NBTV—which teaches people how to retake control of their lives in the digital age—boasts more than 750k subscribers across platforms.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • David Kanter, Executive Director at MLCommons, discusses the work they’re doing with MLPerf Benchmarks, creating the world’s first industry standard approach to measuring AI speed and safety. He also shares ways they’re testing AI and LLMs for harm, to measure—and, over time, reduce—the potential harms of AI.

    Key Takeaways:

    How they’re using research to help build public confidence in AI and emerging technologies

    The types of questions enterprise customers should ask their system providers

    AI safety, and the ways MLCommons is using benchmarks to offer standardized measurements about the potential harm of using AI

    Unique applications of AI, human creativity as the only limit on where AI can go, and how we can make analog experiences more intelligent in the future

    Guest Bio:

    David Kanter is a founder, board member, and the Executive Director of MLCommons where he helps lead the MLPerf benchmarks and other initiatives. He has 16+ years of experience in semiconductors, computing, and machine learning. David founded a microprocessor and compiler startup, was an early employee at Aster Data Systems, and has consulted for industry leaders such as Intel, Nvidia, KLA, Applied Materials, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and many others. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Mathematics and a specialization in Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Arts with honors in Economics, both from the University of Chicago.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

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  • Carissa VĂ©liz, Associate Professor at the Institute for AI at the University of Oxford, discusses how our personal data is the currency of power for tech giants, and ways the balance can be tipped back in favor of individual rights. We also address the privacy implications of large language models, and consider whether OpenAI and tools like ChatGPT are complying with the GDPR.

    Key Takeaways:

    How the erosion of privacy poses a real threat to our fundamental values of democracy

    Why she advocates an end to the data economy, some alternative, and the companies leading the way in privacy-first business models

    The analog world and its role in safeguarding our privacy, along with different ways to design AI that would require less of our personal data

    The temptation to abuse power, and how we may navigate the intersection of technology, privacy, and ethics moving forward

    Guest Bio:

    Carissa VĂ©liz is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. She is the recipient of the 2021 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy. She is the author of the highly-acclaimed Privacy Is Power (an Economist book of the year, 2020), and the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics. She is a member of UNESCO’s Women 4 Ethical AI, and she advises companies and policymakers around the world on privacy and the ethics of AI.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Ryan Brown (Filterset Engineer at Brave) and Peter Snyder (Senior Privacy Researcher at Brave) discuss the latest advancements in ad-blocking technology, and how Brave's control over its browser stack plays a crucial role in maintaining a private yet fully operational Web experience. They also reflect on the resilience of the ad-blocking community, especially in response to the looming changes of Manifest V3, and its potential to reshape the extension landscape.

    Key Takeaways:

    How privacy tools have evolved over time as users have gotten more familiar with these tools, and more sophisticated in their usage.

    The arms race between Big Tech and ad blockers, and the community-driven ad filtering that powers many of today's best privacy tools.

    What the chromium Manifest V3 update is and how it will impact ad blocking.

    What distinguishes Brave's privacy features from other competing browsers, and how Brave’s product principles influence product development.

    Guest Bios: Ryan Brown is a Filterset Engineer at Brave and a List Author Maintainer for the Easylist project and Webcompat Fixer. Peter Snyder is a Senior Privacy Researcher and Filterset Engineer at Brave Software, who received a PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago, focusing on Web privacy, security, and measurement.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Josh Swihart, CEO at Electric Coin Co., discusses public perception of pseudonymity versus privacy, and how this impacts adoption of privacy preserving products. He also explores the increasing challenge of crypto wars—which impacts cryptographic and privacy rights worldwide—and why he believes encryption should be mandated for US citizens.

    Key Takeaways:

    Why physical cash should be treated/regulated differently than digital money

    Examples of regulation and policy overreach, and how this slows progress and innovation

    Why user experience and ease of use needs to catch up with protocol

    The importance of the Zcash and Brave initiative

    Guest Bio: Josh Swihart is CEO at Electric Coin Co. (ECC). Prior to ECC, he served as the SVP of Global Marketing for K2, leading global growth from start-up to acquisition by Francisco Partners. He began his career as a software engineer, and has served as a global practice principal for EMC, the CEO of Aspenware, and VP of software development for 3t Systems. Josh has received numerous global and national awards for leadership, marketing, and solution delivery. He’s an advocate for underserved and/or exploited people all over the world, most actively with those living in the slums of Mumbai and Pune, India.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Andy Yen, Founder & CEO at Proton, discusses how big tech is presenting a false sense of privacy to its users—and why this is dangerous. He also unpacks the confusion between privacy and anonymity, and how where you live impacts your right to each.

    Key Takeaways:

    How Proton has attracted users and early adopters while sticking to a privacy-first marketing strategy.

    What we can learn from the cultural shift to environmental responsibility as it relates to privacy, and to the future rules of the Internet.

    Why being in control of your privacy starts with owning your identity.

    Guest Bio: Andy Yen is the Founder and CEO of Proton, one of the fastest growing consumer tech companies in Europe. Proton offers the world's first privacy-by-default ecosystem, providing encrypted email, calendar, file storage, VPN, identity management, and more, all built on the principle of “your data, your rules.” Andy launched Proton's first product, ProtonMail—now the world's largest encrypted email service—in 2014 while working as a CERN scientist. Since then, Andy has become a leading voice in the global privacy movement. Today, Proton has more than 100M accounts and a team of more than 400 people worldwide.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Preston Byrne, Partner at Brown Rudnick LLP, discusses the benefit of using public private keys as a solution to authenticate communication, and avoid both AI scams and fraud. He also shares his predictions for how AI and cryptocurrency will work together in the future, leaning on each other’s polar-opposite strengths.

    Key Takeaways:

    The role that crypto and AI could play in the upcoming US elections

    Challenges with achieving harmony in global regulations for cryptocurrency and blockchain technology

    Why everyone should be trading their public private keys

    Guest Bio: Preston Bryne, is a lawyer with the law firm of Brown Rudnick LLP where he advises cutting-edge technology startups in the crypto, AI, and consumer Internet sectors.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Anupam Chander, Scott Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media, discusses the future of humanity during a wave of paid technology innovation. He also shares how AI is impacting digital sovereignty.

    Key Takeaways:

    Why Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act has been so important for people online

    How US Internet Laws impact its dominance as a world innovation leader

    Ways that regulators are having to balance new technologies

    The impact that judges, regulators, and the courts have had on the evolution of new technologies

    Guest Bio: Anupam Chander is Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown. A Harvard College and Yale Law graduate, he is the author of The Electronic Silk Road, published by Yale University Press. He practiced law in NY and Hong Kong with Cleary, Gottlieb, and has been a visiting law professor at Yale, Chicago, Stanford, Cornell, and Tsinghua. A recipient of Google Research Awards and an Andrew Mellon grant, he has consulted for the World Bank, World Economic Forum, and UNCTAD. A non-resident fellow at Yale's Information Society Project, he is a member of the American Law Institute. In 2023-24, he’s a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard University, and Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Shubham Shrivastava, Head of Machine Learning at Kodiak Robotics, discusses how AI is solving the increasing challenges within the long haul trucking industry, specifically with safety and driver supply. He also provides practical examples of Kodiak’s safety strategy and redundancies they’ve put in place.

    Key discussion topics:

    How soon we can expect to see autonomous trucks on the road

    The balance between AI innovation and regulation, and how Kodiak is navigating regulation at both the state and national levels across the US

    Practical examples of how multimodal networks are already transforming various industries including education, healthcare, and robotics

    Collaboration gaps between academia and industry (and missed opportunities for advancement)

    Guest bio: Shubham Shrivastava is a leading figure in machine learning and computer vision. At Kodiak, he's the mastermind behind all machine learning endeavors, steering the development of the safest autonomous driving technologies. His leadership and innovations at Ford Autonomy, particularly in 3D perception for vehicles, have set new industry standards. Shubham's numerous patents and publications echo his pivotal role in advancing autonomous vehicle technology, and underline his commitment to transforming the future of transportation.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Gabriele Mazzini, Team Leader - AI Act at the European Commission, discusses the risk-based approach they took when crafting specific rules for the Artificial Intelligence Act (versus simply opposing the technology as a whole). He also discusses the complexities involved in regulating emerging technologies that evolve at a much faster pace than the legislation itself.

    Key Takeaways:

    Recommendations put forward for regulating emerging technologies within the AI Act

    What the process has been like for the development of the AI Act, including the key players

    Where regulation in this space can be most helpful despite the complexities involved

    Guest Bio: Gabriele Mazzini is the architect and lead author of the proposal on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) by the European Commission, where he has focused on the legal and policy questions raised by new technologies since August 2017. Before joining the European Commission, Gabriele held several positions in the private sector in New York and served in the European Parliament and the EU Court of Justice. He holds a LLM from Harvard Law School, a PhD in Italian and Comparative Criminal Law from the University of Pavia, and a Law Degree from the Catholic University in Milan. He is qualified to practice law in Italy and New York.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Austin Campbell, Managing Partner at Zero Knowledge Consulting, discusses the outdated infrastructure of finance and how blockchain is positioned to solve many of the current challenges. He also tackles the complex issues regulators face, and cultural hesitancy towards harnessing the full potential of innovations like blockchain.

    Key takeaways:

    The power of self custody, and how emerging technologies can help avoid events like the 2008 financial crisis

    The anticipated collaborations between AI and crypto, and why blockchain is poised to combat AI-generated spam

    Emerging crypto regulations, especially within Asia

    Crypto anonymity myths and what needs to be changed

    Guest Bio: Austin Campbell is the founder of Zero Knowledge Consulting and a professor at Columbia Business School. Previously, he ran the stablecoin platform and portfolio management at Paxos, and acted as their chief risk officer. He has also managed fixed income trading desks at JP Morgan and Citi, covering over $100B in cash derivatives.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Sexually-explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift surfaced last week and went viral on many platforms - particularly X (formerly Twitter) who responded by removing the ability to search the singer-songwriter’s name alltogether.
    In this bonus solo episode with Luke, he discusses what we can learn from this scandal.

    Key Takeaways:

    - What are deepfakes and should we be concerned?
    - Can we expect new legislation to come from this?
    - Debating how much the government should or shouldn’t be involved in regulating - deepfakes
    - Solutions for verifying the authenticity of public content
    - How can we mitigate the impact of the future impersonations of public or non-public figures?

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Kate Brady, Head of Next Gen D2C Consumer Experience & Direct Digital Marketing Capabilities at PepsiCo, shares how mainstream brands and marketers can utilize Web3 technologies. Kate’s team is currently testing a number of next gen initiatives as part of PepsiCo's newly established Web3 & Metaverse Center of Enablement.

    We also discuss the removal of third-party trackers and moving towards a private internet while still owning the communication with your audience and prioritizing zero first-party data.

    Key Takeaways:

    Why marketers need to examine the value exchange they're offering their consumers – how to get smarter and more consumer centric.
    Ways that mainstream brands like PepsiCo, Starbucks and Walmart are utilizing Web3 technologies like NFTs and the Metaverse to increase loyalty.
    Resources for marketers wanting to experiment with Web3 and why this is the best time to get started in the space.
    Kate’s brave marketing moment: Combining The Walking Dead, Augmented Reality and the Mountain Dew to motivate consumers to tune into advertising commercials despite a cord cutting trend emerging at this time.

    Guest Bio: Kate Brady is a seasoned marketing veteran with over 20-years media and marketing experience, 12+ of those years within PepsiCo. Kate now leads Next Gen D2C Consumer Experience and Direct Digital Marketing Capabilities, a newly formed team within PepsiCo’s global Strategy and Transformation organization driving growth for PepsiCo through the lens of consumer data and experiences.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Guest host: Patrick Rice

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Nell Watson is a pioneering ethics and machine intelligence researcher, and president of EthicsNet. Here, she discusses different scenarios in which things could go “wrong” with emerging technologies, and lead to AI working against the best interests of humanity instead of for it. She also shares the amazing work that’s being done now to prevent this.

    Key Takeaways:

    Why AI safety and AI ethics teams need to collaborate and work together over their shared goals, and build better bridges The differences and similarities between AI ethics and safety, along with the various approaches to making AI less problematic or risky The emergence of “shadow AI,” and the increasing need for ethical transparency and accountability Why the tech industry is not ready or able to self-regulate

    Guest Bio: Nell Watson is a pioneering ethics and machine intelligence researcher, and a driving force behind some of the most crucial AI ethics standardization and certification initiatives. She’s also the president of EthicsNet.

    Nell dedicates her work to protecting human rights and infusing ethics, safety, and values that elevate the human spirit into technologies like artificial intelligence.

    Through her public speaking, Nell has inspired audiences to work towards a brighter future at venues such as the World Bank, the United Nations General Assembly, and the Royal Society.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Keith Sonderling, Commissioner at the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), discusses how HR companies and employers are using AI, and the implications of this usage on employment law. He stresses the importance of governance and regulation to avoid discrimination, prevent HR biases at scale, and to ultimately uphold our civil rights.

    Key takeaways:

    How to use machine learning to make HR decisions that were historically done by a human

    Examples of how AI and HR tech have already impacted every step in the employee lifecycle

    How the use of natural language processing can mitigate against discrimination in the hiring processes

    The work the EEOC is doing to ensure HR tech is being developed in a way that helps all employment decisions remain fair and non-discriminatory

    Guest bio:

    Keith E. Sonderling was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, with a bipartisan vote, to be a Commissioner on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2020. Until January of 2021, he served as the Commission’s Vice-Chair.

    Since joining the EEOC, one of Commissioner Sonderling’s highest priorities is ensuring that artificial intelligence and workplace technologies are designed and deployed in a way that’s consistent with long-standing civil rights laws. Commissioner Sonderling has published numerous articles on the benefits and potential harms of using artificial intelligence-based technology in the workplace, and speaks globally on these emerging issues.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Gilad Lumbroso, Squad Lead @ AI21 Labs, discusses the various ways we overestimate AI, and the gaps that currently need to be filled in AI capabilities. He also explains the role that natural language will play in the evolution of new AI, and discusses how to apply natural language usability as a key part of product development.

    Key Takeaways:

    How to deal with hallucinations and misleading information

    Prompts for leveraging ChatGPT as a learning tool

    Ways that creators can use various AI tools to scale their work and improve efficiencies

    How product builders and designers should focus their learning

    Guest Bio: Gilad Lumbroso is the Squad Lead at A121 Labs where he’s responsible for Wordtune's AI writing features, managing engineering, algorithm, and product teams. Gilad joined AI21 Labs almost 6 years ago as their 6th employee, and has since worked on many generative AI initiatives.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Greg Diamos, Co-Founder of Lamini, shares how their discovery of the Scaling Laws Recipe led to rapid evolution of language learning models, and inspired Lamini’s product offering. He also discusses his message for policy makers, including what we should be worried about, and what pitfalls we should work to avoid.

    Key Takeaways:

    Why you should build your own LLM

    How language learning models have impacted ChatGPT

    Why this is the best time for software engineers to enter the space

    Guest Bio:

    Greg Diamos is a Co-Founder of Lamini, the enterprise LLM platform for building and owning LLMs. He is also a Co-Founder of MLPerfℱ, the industry standard benchmark for deep learning performance. Greg was a founding engineer at Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL), where he co-invented the first deep learning speech and language model (which was deployed in production to billions of users). At Baidu, he discovered Scaling Laws, motivating LLMs. His team members from SVAIL built the most useful LLMs today, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Llama 2 at Meta, Claude 2 at Anthropic, PALM at Google, and NVIDIA’s Megatron. Before Baidu, Greg was a CUDA Architect at NVIDIA. Greg holds a PhD from Georgia Tech focusing on high performance computing.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Kleomenis Katevas, Machine Learning Researcher at Brave Software, discusses how we can build trust in AI with the general public by making data as safe and secure as possible. He also unpacks some of the myths the general public holds about AI, how to debunk these myths, and tangible steps companies can take to reduce privacy concerns with AI.

    Key Takeaways:

    How Twitter (now known as X) can be a great resource for learning more about AI, along with specific accounts and thought leaders he’s following in the space

    Exciting ways that healthcare will be vastly improved through artificial intelligence via customized treatment plans and timely diagnosis

    Why Brave is taking a privacy-first approach to its AI product suite

    Guest Bio: Kleomenis Katevas is a Machine Learning Researcher at Brave Software, where he’s focused on designing and building privacy-preserving, ML-based systems. His research interests lie in the areas of Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, Federated Learning, Mobile Systems, and Human-Computer Interaction.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech.To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software - makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, now powering AI with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Grant Halloran, CEO of Planful, discusses AI’s impact on CFOs and finance leaders, and ways these technologies have changed their role within organizations. He also shares how the financial industry will witness a future where extensive human involvement in routine financial tasks is reduced in favor of focusing on high-value, strategic work.

    Key Takeaways:

    How AI is making non-financial people more financially savvy, faster

    Ways everyday people can better utilize artificial intelligence

    Unpacking the skepticism in finance due to the complexity and importance of accuracy with financial data

    The need for AI to be user-friendly and provide immediate utility, just like modern consumer technology

    Guest Bio: Grant Halloran, CEO of Planful, has been working to bring cutting-edge innovations to enterprise software for over 20 years. He’s a champion for advancing how finance and accounting teams work. Specifically, Planful is using AI and machine learning in its market-leading financial performance management solutions to increase speed, reduce errors, spot trends, and more, and Grant is confident CFOs will soon come to rely on AI as a key to reaching peak financial performance.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software - makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, now powering AI with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte

  • Brian Bondy, Co-Founder and CTO of Brave, discusses the recent launch of Leo, Brave’s browser-native AI assistant. Brian discusses the benefits of having AI directly in the browser, and how Brave has actually been using AI in its tech stack for years.

    Key Takeaways:

    Resources for learning about neural networks and machine learning

    What we should and shouldn’t be worried about with artificial intelligence

    Brave’s commitment to continue protecting personal data and privacy as new products are released

    Guest Bio:

    Brian Bondy Co-founded Brave Software with Brendan Eich in 2015, and now serves as the Chief Technology Officer and member of the board at Brave.

    Before Brave, Brian worked at a number of innovative companies like Khan Academy, Mozilla, and Evernote.

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    About this Show:

    The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all!

    Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together.

    The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

    Music by: Ari Dvorin

    Produced by: Sam Laliberte