Pioneers of AI

Rana el Kaliouby

Booking Overview

This is an interview-led technology show focused on artificial intelligence, featuring prominent technology executives, investors, founders, journalists, and other thinkers examining AI's effects on business and society. Credible pitches include AI company founders, senior technology leaders, AI researchers, venture investors, workforce experts, and journalists with authoritative perspectives; booking difficulty is high because recent guests hold prominent leadership or expert positions.

Metrics

Episodes: 127

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 31.3k subscribers

Instagram: 1.9k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Rana el Kaliouby - AI scientist, investor, author, and co-founder of Affectiva.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Senior executives at major technology or AI companies, founders of influential technology businesses, venture investors, established AI researchers, and journalists or critics with deep technology expertise.

Required Achievements:

Founded or led a significant technology or AI company, Built or funded AI-powered products and businesses, Published authoritative reporting or analysis on technology and AI, Held a senior leadership role at a major technology platform, Produced substantive research or data on AI's effects on business, privacy, or work

Recent Guest Discussions

Rudina Seseri - The AI Investing Landscape, Where AI Is Generating Business Value, And What She Looks For In Founders.

Jess Hertz - Agentic Shopping, Ai-driven Product Discovery, And The Infrastructure Needed To Make Products Purchasable By AI Agents.

Wade Foster - Scaling AI Across An Organization, Connecting AI Agents, And Redesigning A Software Company Around Ai.

Ina Fried - Consumer Data, Privacy Policies, Data Sharing, And The Business Models Of Major AI Companies.

Hayden Brown - Ai's Effect On The Workforce, Changing Skill Demand, Automation, Layoffs, And The Return Of Human Workers To Ai-augmented Roles.

Recent Topics

Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Workplace Automation, Venture Capital

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Pioneers of AI

OpenAI’s Tibo Sottiaux doesn’t want humans to be an ‘afterthought’

October 07, 2026

Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux is OpenAI’s head of Product & Platform, making him responsible for the AI tools used by more than a billion users worldwide. Host Rana el Kaliouby spoke with Tibo about why he’s “proud” OpenAI delayed its latest Astra model over safety concerns, the new suite of agentic products released at DevDay, and what it’s like to lead inside a frontier AI company in this extraordinary moment in history. Learn more about Pioneers of AI: http://pioneersof.ai/Follow Pione...

Possible: Training robots for a world they've never seen

September 30, 2026

On this week’s episode we’re excited to share an episode from our sister podcast Possible, a podcast that sketches out the brightest vision of the future.Useful robots won’t be programmed one task at a time; they’ll need to adapt to unfamiliar objects, environments, and robot bodies. Physical Intelligence cofounder Chelsea Finn (named last month to the TIME100 AI list for 2026) joins Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger to explain how general-purpose robot models learn to act in the messy physical wo...

The slippery slope of artificial intimacy

September 23, 2026

For the past four decades Sherry Turkle has studied the social and psychological implications of AI. She’s the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, and author of the upcoming book Artificial Intimacy: Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines? Sherry sits down with Rana to deliver a warning about the slippery slope we’re all stepping on to with our use of AI. Sherry i...

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