AI is giving us a reset in the workplace
This week’s episode of The Intersect is about something most of us do five days a week, and often wish away: work.
But what if work didn’t have to be a soul-sucking grind OR your life’s grand calling? What if the goal of work is s…
Privacy is becoming a main character
This week on The Intersect, I talked to Udbhav Tiwari, Signal’s VP of Strategy and Global Affairs -- someone in tech who’s deeply engaged with the question of what it means to build for privacy in an AI-powered, surveillance-heavy w…
Navigating ‘human’ hiring with the help of robots
The job search is being rewritten by AI. Your resume has likely had help from an AI bot, was scanned by a gpt, and your first interview might even be with an avatar?! This may sound far fetched, but it’s actually here in many ways already. T…
Is the future of beauty an AI mirror?
Jacqueline Raich is the founder and CEO of Primer -- a mirror that acts like a makeup artist living in your home. Through AI and augmented reality, it gives you step-by-step guidance on how to create your look.
@theintersectshow Have you read Har…
Intimacy in the age of always-on tech
If you’ve spent any time online lately you’ve probably noticed it feels like men and women are being pitted against each other. The ‘gender wars’ are loud and attention-grabbing, but what’s actually happening underneath…
AI knows how to humiliate women
To be a woman and live online in 2025 means carrying a low-grade fear that your image -- your literal face -- might be used against you. Not just taken, but altered, violated, remixed by a machine and redistributed across a platform with millions of…
Love is a drug is a chatbot?!
There’s a feeling I have long chased. You may have chased it, too. Sometimes it shows up in a person, a screen or a perfectly-timed compliment. It’s a rush, followed by a deep-body calm. One you might experience when you feel someone &ls…
Search, swipe, sleep -- everything you do is being tracked, but can you even ‘turn it off’?!
To give your data, or not to give your data? No longer the question. I don’t think we actually have a choice anymore, especially if we want to participate in the world with other people, digital and IRL.
This week’s conversation o…
Schools out, but AI is already lesson-planning for the Fall
It’s June and for the most part we’re out of the physical classroom but still very much in a live experiment. AI was fully in the halls of education this last semester, practically every day. Students are using it. Teachers are using it.…
AI Killed the News Editor and Is Rewriting Reality in Real Time
We are living in an era of deep revelation.
Not just because of artificial intelligence but because of what AI is revealing about us -- our belief systems, our narratives, the constructs we’ve built our world upon. It’s reflecting bac…