Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

Brave New World is a look into the transformation of humanity by machines in the post-COVID era. It examines a wide range of topics around how technology and "virtualization" of our lives is impacting work, health, faith, emotional well being, government, democracy, and freedom. It is hosted by AI-pioneer Vasant Dhar.

Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar is a technology podcast hosted by Vasant Dhar, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

  Ep 108: Prashanth Chandrasekar: Community and the AI Pivot

  Aug 13, 20261h 3m

  Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow, joins Vasant Dhar to discuss the company's pivot to reinvent the platform and the way forward in an AI-native world. Useful Resources: 1. Prashanth Chandrasekhar 2. Stack Overflow 3. Nandan Nilekani 4. Clayton M. Christensen 5. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) - Clayton M. Christensen 6. Can Good Writing Be Generative - Tuhin Chakrabarty, Paramveer S. Dhillon 7. Brave New World Episode 102: Alex 'Sandy' Pentland on Humanizing Technology 8. Stack Internal 9. Jon Skeet 10. Trust Pilot 11. Stack Overflow AI Assist Check out Vasant Dhar's newsletter on Substack. The subscription is free! Order Vasant Dhar's new book, Thinking With Machines

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  Episode #107

  Ep 107: Rule Breaker Investing — David Gardner on Staying the Course

  Jul 16, 20261h 2mS1

  David Gardner, co-founder of The Motley Fool, joins Vasant Dhar to discuss his approach to investing - the case for holding great companies for decades, and candid takes on stocks as long-term bets. Useful Resources: 1. David Gardner 2. The Motley Fool 3. Tom Gardner , CEO, The Motley Fool 4. Bill James 5. Peter Lynch 6. Fool 24, The Motley Fool On YouTube 7. John Sexton 8. Rule Breaker Investing: How to Pick the Best Stocks of the Future and Build Lasting Wealth - David Gardner 9. Fool Community Foundation 10. The Motley Fool Investment Guide: Third Edition: How the Fools Beat Wall Street's Wise Men and How You Can Too (An Investment Guide for Beginners) - David Gardner, Tom Gardner 11. The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game - C. Thi Nguyen 12. David Gardner's Stock Picks: Amazon , Tesla , Netflix , Nvidia , Chipotle , Intuitive Surgical , Rocket Lab , Axon Enterprise , Salesforce , Starbucks 13. Aswath Damodaran 14. Brave New World Episode 33: Aswath Damodaran on Investing 15. Philip Tetlock 16. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction - Philip Tetlock 17. Da Vinci Surgical Robot 18. Service Now 19. Anthropic Check out Vasant Dhar's newsletter on Substack. The subscription is free! Order Vasant Dhar's new book, Thinking With Machines

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  Episode #106

  Ep 106: Luca Turin On Decoding Smell

  Jun 11, 20261h 16m

  Smell is the most mysterious of our senses and we've been getting it wrong. Biophysicist Luca Turin joins Vasant Dhar to reveal why and how our noses detect vibrations and what that could mean for disease diagnosis, security, and the future of AI. Useful Resources: 1. Luca Turin . 2. Perfumes: The A-Z Guide - Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez. 3. The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell - Luca Turin. 4. Perfumes: The Guide, 2018 - Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez. 5. A Spectroscopic Mechanism for Primary Olfactory Reception - Luca Turin. 6. Laying a controversial smell theory to rest - Leslie B. Vosshall. 7. Status of the Vibrational Theory of Olfaction - Ross D. Hoehn, David E. Nichols, Hartmut Neven, Sabre Kais. 8. Implausibility Of The Vibrational Theory Of Olfaction - Eric Block, Seogjoo Jang, Hiroki Matsunami, Hanyi Zuhang. 9. A Psychophysical Test Of The Vibration Theory Of Olfaction - Andreas Keller and Leslie B. Vosshall. 10. A Novel Multigene Family May Encode Odorant Receptors: A Molecular Basis For Odour Recognition - Linda Buck, Richard Axel. 11. A Principal Odour Map Unifies Diverse Tasks In Olfactory Perception - Brian K. Lee, Emily J. Mayhew, Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling, Jennifer N. Wei, Wesley W. Qian, Kelsie A. Little, Matthew Andres, Britney B. Nguyen, Theresa Moloy and Alexander B. Wiltschko. 12. Luca Turin On Substack . 13. Episode 81 of Brave New World: Alex Wiltschko on the Sense of Smell 14. Episode 97 Of Brave New World: Alex Wiltschko on Digitising Scent Check out Vasant Dhar's newsletter on Substack. The subscription is free! Order Vasant Dhar's new book, Thinking With Machines

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  Episode #105

  Ep 105: Nicholas Christakis on The Impacts of Machines on Human Groups

  May 14, 20261h 8mS1

  Your networks shape you more than you know. Nicholas Christakis joins Vasant Dhar to reveal how machines inserted into human groups quietly rewire the way people cooperate, coordinate, and trust — and why a little artificial noise might be exactly what we need. Useful Resources: 1. Nicholas Christakis 2. Human Nature Lab 3. The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 years - Nicholas Christakis and James H Fowler 4. Widowhood Effect 5. The Effect of Widowhood on Mortality by the Causes of Death of Both Spouses - Felix Elwert and Nicholas Christakis 6. Locally Noisy Autonomous Agents Improve Global Human Coordination in Network Experiments - Hirokazu Shirado and Nicholas Christakis 7. ETH Global Lecture, Social Artificial Intelligence 8. Graph Colouring 9. Vulnerable robots positively shape human conversational dynamics in a human–robot team - Margaret L. Traeger , Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Malte Jung and Nicholas Christakis 10. Hirokazu Shirado 11. Chicken, The Game 12. Emergence and collapse of reciprocity in semiautomatic driving coordination experiments with humans - Shunichi Kasahara , Hirokazu Shirado and Nicholas Christakis 13. Traffic Patterns in Seattle and Hyderabad: Immediate and Mediate Transactions - Paul G. Hiebert 14. Brian Scassellati 15. Iyad Rahwan 16. Machine Behaviour - Iyad Rahwan 17. A Randomised Controlled Trial of Social Network Targeting to Maximise Population Behaviour Change - David A Kim , Alison R Hwong , Derek Stafford , D Alex Hughes , A James O'Malley , Nicholas Christakis , James H Fowler 18. Induction of social contagion for diverse outcomes in structured experiments in isolated villages - Edoardo M. Airoldi , Nicholas Christakis 19. Algorithms for seeding social networks can enhance the adoption of a public health intervention in urban India - Marcus Alexander , Laura Forastiere , Swati Gupta , Nicholas Christakis 20. Friendship paradox 21. Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society - Nicholas Christakis 22. Friendship and Natural Selection - James H Fowler and Nicholas Christakis 23. Kin Selection 24. Social Network Biology and Human Chemosignaling 25. For The Love Of Science Check out Vasant Dhar's newsletter on Substack. The subscription is free! Order Vasant Dhar's new book, Thinking With Machines

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  Episode #104

  Ep 104: Leslie Kay on Smell, Memory and the Brain

  Apr 9, 20261h 15mS1

  Your nose knows more than you think. Professor Leslie M. Kay joins Vasant Dhar to reveal how smell is wired directly into the brain's emotional core — and how every breath you take is quietly synchronising your mind. Useful Resources: 1. Leslie Kay 2. GenBank 3. National Library of Medicine 4. Walter Jackson Freeman III 5. Dynamical Systems 6. Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel 7. Dmitry Rinberg , Rinberg Lab 8. S. Murray Sherman 9. John Hopfield 10. Christof Koch 11. Joy Milne 12. Aromha test 13. Lucia F. Jacobs 14. From chemotaxis to the cognitive map: The function of olfaction - Lucia F Jacobs 15. Patricia Churchland 16. Andrew Sheriff , Northwestern Human Olfaction Lab 17. Long-Range Respiratory and Theta Oscillation Networks Depend on Spatial Sensory Context - Andrew Sheriff , Guinevere Pandolfi , Vivian S Nguyen and Leslie M. Kay 18. Evidence for a Chromatographic Model of Olfaction - Maxwell Mozell 19. COVID-19 and olfactory dysfunction: a looming wave of dementia? - Leslie M. Kay 20. SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure - UK Biobank 21. Asifa Majid 22. Human Olfaction at the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Biology - Asifa Majid Check out Vasant Dhar's newsletter on Substack. The subscription is free! Order Vasant Dhar's new book , Thinking With Machines

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