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Alexis Madrigal
Co-Host, “Forum,” KQED; Contributing Writer, The Atlantic
Alexis Madrigal is the co-host of KQED's “Forum,” the leading talk show in the San Francisco Bay Area. Madrigal is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the author of a forthcoming book from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He was a co-founder of The COVID Tracking Project.
Previously
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From Genentech’s advances in biotechnology to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, venture capital has long had a transformative influence on healthcare. Investors willing to put money...
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How we get around fundamentally shapes the way we live, work, and play. From carriages and sailing ships to steam locomotives and propeller planes, methods of moving people an...
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Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. Big tech companies may be inadvertently building a...
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No single technology on the horizon offers the promise — or the peril — of quantum computing. This long-imagined leap in computer power could radically transform everything fr...
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Three experts discuss how science and technology are impacting Israel’s economy and security. This session will examine recent breakthroughs in quantum science in a way that i...
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Just because robots can do jobs that humans otherwise do, does that mean that they should? This question becomes especially difficult when we task a robot with applying lethal...