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Pioneers of AI

Pioneers of AI is your guide to the latest technological frontier. Each week, host Rana el Kaliouby (AI scientist, investor, author, co-founder of Affectiva) is joined by the leading creators, critics, and thinkers behind mind-blowing technology and asks the important questions about how artificial intelligence is changing the way we live. As we venture together into the unknown, Pioneers is your tool to understanding and anticipating what comes next.

Episodes

Physical AI is transforming industrial automation by shifting from rigid, pre-programmed tasks to adaptive, intelligence-driven operations. Raffaello D'Andrea, co-founder of Kiva Systems and Verity, explains how modern vision-language models bypass traditional, brittle computer vision workflows, allowing robots to inte...

How SaaS can survive the AI revolution, with Aaron Levie

14 Jan 2026

40m

Can AI cure doctor burnout?

07 Jan 2026

33m

Rapid Response: Rana’s AI forecast for 2026, with Bob Safian

31 Dec 2025

32m

AI’s journey from the lab to the marketplace

24 Dec 2025

25m

‘Like Disneyland when it just opened’: Arm CEO Rene Haas on the AI revolution

17 Dec 2025

21m

Visualizing the AI boom (or bubble), with Carta’s Peter Walker

10 Dec 2025

42m

Walmart, AI, and the future of shopping, with Walmart CTO Suresh Kumar

03 Dec 2025

33m

Andrew Ng on winning the AI race, with DJ Patil

26 Nov 2025

23m

AI processed

This episode of Pioneers of AI features a conversation between Andrew Ng, a pioneer in AI, and DJ Patil, former chief data scientist under the Obama administration. They discuss the current state of AI, including the concept of "agentic" AI, where AI takes a more iterative approach to tasks. Ng emphasizes the importanc...