The Most Interesting Thing in A.I.
Atlantic Re:think and PwC · Atlantic Re:think
Show overview
The Most Interesting Thing in A.I. has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 40 episodes, alongside 2 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 25 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 31 min and 50 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Technology show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 19 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2026, with 19 episodes published. Published by Atlantic Re:think.
From the publisher
A podcast series examining how AI is reshaping our world. Hosted by Nicholas Thompson, each episode features a conversation with a leading thinker who offers a fresh perspective on the far-reaching ethical, economic, and social implications of this technology.
Latest Episodes
View all 40 episodesThe Future of Economic Power - Circle’s Jeremy Allaire with Nicholas Thompson
The Race to Superintelligence - Richard Socher with Nicholas Thompson
How to Get Hired in the AI Era - Clara Shih with Nicholas Thompson
Kara Swisher on What Silicon Valley Is Getting Right—and Wrong—in AI
How AI Could Upend Global Politics - Ian Bremmer with Nicholas Thompson
Writing in the Age of AI - Gemini Notebook’s Steven Johnson with Nicholas Thompson
Meta's Plan to Win in AI - Andrew Bosworth with Nicholas Thompson
AI’s Threat to Privacy — Signal’s Meredith Whittaker with Nicholas Thompson
Will AI Agents Kill Social Media– Or Save It? Eli Pariser with Nicholas Thompson
How AI Agents Are Changing Business - PwC’s Dan Priest with Nicholas Thompson
How AI Is Changing Code - Paul Ford with Nicholas Thompson
How Science Can Fix Dishonest AI - Yoshua Bengio with Nicholas Thompson
The AI Jobs Disruption - Erik Brynjolfsson with Nicholas Thompson
The Limits of Predictive AI - Carissa Véliz with Nicholas Thompson
AI Utopia or Catastrophe? Nick Bostrom with Nicholas Thompson
The Case for Open-Source AI - with Nicholas Thompson and Raffi Krikorian
Sam Altman on Where AI Models Go Next, with Nicholas Thompson
Data Centers in Space - with Nicholas Thompson and Ariel Ekblaw
Season 4 Trailer
The Copyright Wars - with Nicholas Thompson and Bill Gross
In this episode, The Atlantic’s CEO Nicholas Thompson speaks with serial entrepreneur and Idealab founder Bill Gross about his latest venture, ProRata, a bold attempt to create a fair exchange of value between AI companies and the creators whose work helped train their models. From inventing search advertising to tackling one of AI’s most urgent ethical challenges, Gross explains how innovation and fair market dynamics can align—and how humans are still underestimating the transformative power of AI. (00:00) Introduction (06:32) How Bill invented paid search in the 1990s (13:29) NYT v. OpenAI as the “lightning strike moment” that inspired ProRata (16:16) Solving the “impossible problem” of AI attribution (21:36) ProRata’s plan for revenue sharing between creators and AI companies (24:13) How YouTube shows revenue sharing could make AI companies even stronger (28:20) When there will be a one-person company with a billion-dollar valuation (29:23) AI could be net positive for the climate in as little as five years (33:01) The most interesting way Bill has used AI recently Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices