As this year draws to a close we’re bringing you a look at the tech trends we’ll be watching in 2024.

We Meet:

Deloitte’s Chief Futurist Mike Bechtel

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SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong, Anthony Green, and Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski.

Language translation increasingly falls to artificial intelligence—but AI still doesn’t speak many of the world’s languages.

We Meet:

Vasco Pedro, CEO, Unbabel

Paulo Dimas, VP Product Innovation, Unbabel

Pelonomi Moiloa, CEO, Lelapa AI

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SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong, Anthony Green, and Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski.

In this third installment of our oral history project we meet a man working to build edtech programs in under-resourced languages for children without access to traditional schooling. His company, Taleemabad, was awarded the WISE award in 2021 and has been recognized by Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai and the late Queen Elizabeth.

We Meet:

Haroon Yasin, the Co-founder & CEO of Taleemabad

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SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong and Anthony Green, with help from Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski.

Potentially a quarter billion children worldwide lack access to an education. Advances in education tech and AI programs for learning can help students who have access to tools and internet. This episode, we bring you a conversation with members of the International Rescue Committee, an aid group developing tailored learning experiences for children in crisis. It was taped before a live audience at Web Summit, Europe’s largest tech conference, in Lisbon, Portugal. 

We Meet:

Atish Gonsalves, Global Lead for Research & Innovation in Education, International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Morena Baccarin, Actor, IRC Ambassador

Sara Wayne Callies, Actor, IRC Ambassador

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SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong and Anthony Green, with help from Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski.

In this second installment of our oral history project we meet a man trying to solve AI’s black box problem with symbolic AI, a subfield that communicates how decisions are made.

We Meet:

Casper Wilstrup, the Founder & CEO of Abzu

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SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong and Anthony Green, with help from Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski.

In an increasingly digital world, ensuring equitable access to broadband and digital tools has become a pressing societal issue—particularly within the Black community. This episode, a conversation moderated by our show’s co-creator and senior producer, Anthony Green. It was taped in front of a live audience at The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC.

We Meet:

Dr. Nicol Turner Lee, director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings, and also serves as Co-Editor-In-Chief of TechTank

Sean Mickens, Associate Vice President, External Affairs, Comcast

Dr. Jon Gant, director, Department of Commerce, NTIA, Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives

Justice Ukadike, Manager, Senior Analyst, U.S. Government Affairs & Public Policy, Google

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SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong and Anthony Green, with help from Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski.

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Privacy officers from Google, Microsoft, Meta and IBM discuss how they approach AI governance before a live audience at the general meeting of the IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) on November 3, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts. 

We Meet:

Julie Brill, Chief Privacy Officer, Corporate Vice President, Global Privacy & Regulatory Affairs, Microsoft

Keith Enright, Global Chief Privacy Officer, Google

Christina Montgomery, Chief Privacy and Trust Officer, IBM

Rob Sherman, Vice President and Deputy Chief Privacy Officer, Policy, Meta

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SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong and Anthony Green, with help from Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski.

We explore what impact the U.S. President's executive order on artificial intelligence might have as governments across the globe move to regulate AI.

We Meet:

Khari Johnson, senior writer, Wired

Suresh Venkatasubramanian, director of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign with the Data Science Institute at Brown University

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SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong, Anthony Green and Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski.

The hardest part of making something in space right now might just be getting it back to Earth. A conversation with Quartz’s Tim Fernholz about the opportunities and challenges of making goods in orbit.

In the first installment of our oral history project we meet the woman overseeing Airbnb's efforts to build an anti-party AI system to try to combat fraud and stop bad actors from using the company’s platform.

We Meet: Naba Banerjee, head of trust and safety at Airbnb

Credits: SHIFT is produced by Jennifer Strong and Anthony Green, with help from Emma Cillekens. It’s mixed by Garret Lang, with original music from him and Jacob Gorski.