Where What If Becomes What's Next

CMU’s Where What If Becomes What’s Next offers access to leading CMU researchers for thought-leadership storytelling in AI, robotics, health tech, and the sciences. It’s a credibility-forward platform with high-quality, research-backed conversations ideal for showcasing university-sponsored innovation partnerships and expertise to tech, health, and education audiences.

35 episodes, Biweekly, 4.3 rating

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Welcome to Season 2 of WHERE WHAT IF BECOMES WHAT’S NEXT, a podcast from Carnegie Mellon University where we ask the bold questions that will become innovations for the betterment of humanity. You'll hear about breakthroughs at CMU from scientists, researchers, innovators and artists at the forefront of artificial intelligence, robotics, health science and the arts. With host Randy Scott, every other Thursday we’ll introduce you to CMU experts and their game-changing stories of innovation. Subscribe so that you'll never miss an episode. For more, info visit: cmu.edu/whatsnextpodcast.

Randy Scott

Tech News, News, Science, Technology, Business, Education, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

PhD or higher; senior academic or research leader; occasional industry collaboration; high public recognition (e.g., board roles, NSF/DOE leadership)

lead major CMU labs and projects (e.g., Vertebrate Genomes Project, LINCC Frameworks), board memberships or advisory roles (e.g., OpenAI), publications and invited talks on AI, genomics, robotics, or cognitive science, leadership of interdisciplinary research initiatives, case studies or demonstrations with broad societal impact

Zico Kolter - AI Safety, Data Exfiltration, Prompt Injection, Societal Impacts Of AI, Andreas Pfenning - AI In Gene Therapy, Precision Gene Therapies, KGWAS, Vertebrate Genomes Project, Aarti Singh - CLARKE System, Disaster Damage Analytics, Maternal Health AI, Responsible AI Adoption, George Kantor - Agricultural Robotics, Robotic Harvesters, Digital Twins, Safe Forest Initiative, Jeremy Kubica - LINCC Tools, Open-source Software, Collaboration Tooling

AI safety, machine learning, gene therapy, genomics, Vertebrate Genomes Project, Rubin Observatory, LINCC Frameworks, robotics, disaster management, auditory perception