The Most Interesting Thing in AI

Nicholas Thompson

rethink-podcasts@theatlantic.com

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Booking Overview

A tech-ethics focused AI show hosted by Nicholas Thompson that pairs a prominent AI leader’s real-world perspective with big-picture questions about privacy, economics, and society. Great PR fit for founders, technologists, and policy/ethics figures who can explain tradeoffs clearly to a general, high-status audience.

Metrics

Episodes: 34

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

rethink-podcasts@theatlantic.com

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Host

Nicholas Thompson - CEO of The Atlantic, hosting conversations with leading thinkers about the ethical, economic, and social implications of AI.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Senior AI/tech leaders (e.g., CTO/strategy executives), privacy/ethics leaders, and well-known authors/builders who can connect AI capabilities to societal and economic tradeoffs.
Required Achievements:  
C-suite leadership in major tech firms, Leading roles in privacy-focused organizations, Published work critiquing or shaping internet/social platform dynamics, Building or funding influential AI/social products

Recent Guest Discussions

Andrew Bosworth - Meta AI Strategy, Privacy Concerns (including Employee Data Use), AI Models (open Vs Proprietary), And Implications For Workers And Product Design

Meredith Whittaker - Privacy Threats From Agentic AI, Off-device Compute, Prompt Injection Risks, And Signal’s Approach To AI While Protecting User Data

Eli Pariser - How AI Agents May Reshape Social Media—whether They Could Harm Or Improve Feeds And The “digital Town Square” Role Of Platforms

Recent Topics

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Privacy, Technology Policy, Economics

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Most Interesting Thing in AI
:

Meta's Plan to Win in AI - Andrew Bosworth with Nicholas Thompson

July 08, 2026

However you feel about Meta, Andrew Bosworth has likely played a part in it. The long-serving right hand to Mark Zuckerberg and current Chief Technology Officer, “Boz” has helped shape almost every stage of the company’s growth. He’s credited with introducing the Facebook News Feed in 2006, and, more recently, with overseeing the company’s efforts in the metaverse. Now, Boz is a key figure behind Meta's artificial intelligence strategy. In late June, he joined Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The A...

AI’s Threat to Privacy — Signal’s Meredith Whittaker with Nicholas Thompson

July 01, 2026

AI agents can scour the internet for us, reply to our messages, and add events to our calendars. But in order to do so, they need sweeping access to our data. Handing that over presents an unprecedented threat to privacy, says Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker, who directs the Signal messaging app. In conversation with The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson, Whittaker discusses the risks of agentic AI, Signal’s approach to AI coding, and why it’s uncompromising in its commitment to p...

Will AI Agents Kill Social Media–Or Save It? Eli Pariser with Nicholas Thompson

June 24, 2026

Take a scroll through Facebook or TikTok today, and you’ll likely find some AI-generated content: an influencer with impossibly-radiant skin, a stunt that bends the laws of physics, Shrimp Jesus. And while there might not be much social benefit to AI slop, that doesn’t mean that we should shun AI from our feeds entirely, says Eli Pariser. As the author of “The Filter Bubble,” Pariser has been a longtime critic of social media. But he’s also the cofounder of Upworthy, the bubbly bright news si...

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