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🧠 🤖 In todays episode, Jim is joined by Jen Fox, who works on Human-AI interaction at Microsoft. Jen gives an overview of her backstory in particle physics, and why she loves being an educator. Jen then talks about the Core AI team at Microsoft, how to consolidate enthusiasm for AI with a passion for stopping climate change. Finally Jen teaches Jim all about the work she’s doing on human-AI interaction, diving into what jobs AI can do, and what jobs humans should do as caretakers, along with how AI helps under-resourced folks scale quickly.

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In this episode:

0:00:00 - Intro

0:01:54 - Jen’s back story and why she loves educating folks

0:05:36 - The Core AI team at Microsoft

0:07:12 - AI, climate change, and how tech companies are turning to nuclear

0:13:51 - Human AI interaction, and how AI unlocks different ways to interact with a computer

0:23:20 - Can AI replace human empathy?

0:31:20 - How AI can help under-resourced groups by enabling scale

0:38:43 - Humans as caretakers, and what humans can do that AI cannot