How To AI: A Practical Business Q&A With Three Experts
On with Kara Swisher
New York Magazine
4.2 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | we're going to have to manage humans, AI agents, or whatever that format takes, and at some point, robotics. |
| 0:06.9 | So that's a whole different type of skill set. |
| 0:09.3 | I don't even want to manage humans. |
| 0:25.3 | Hi, everyone, from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. |
| 0:27.9 | This is On with Kara Swisher, and I'm Kara Swisher. |
| 0:33.1 | Today, we're answering your questions about how to use AI at work or for your business. We're tackling everything from how vibe coding works to the big societal issues around regulation and privacy. |
| 0:39.4 | And of course, we'll get into what so many of us want to know right now, will AI take my job? |
| 0:45.3 | A lot of you sent us some really great questions via email threads and blue sky, and we've called in a panel of experts to help answer them. |
| 0:52.7 | Syash Kapoor is the co-author of the book AI Snake Oil, |
| 0:56.8 | what artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference. |
| 1:01.5 | He also writes the substack AI as normal technology. |
| 1:05.7 | Rajiv Kapoor is CEO of 1105 Media, a business-to-business tech marketing and events company. He's the author of |
| 1:13.2 | AI Made Simple, a beginner's guide to generative intelligence. And Amy Webb is a futurist and the founder |
| 1:19.7 | and CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group. She teaches at New York University's Stern School of |
| 1:26.1 | Business, and she's the author of multiple books, |
| 1:28.4 | and her latest is The Genesis Machine, Our Quest to rewrite life in the Age of Synthetic Biology. |
| 1:35.1 | I think it's really important for us to do this a lot and ask all kinds of questions as the technology develops. |
| 1:41.8 | We did not have this opportunity to have podcasts when the internet |
| 1:44.6 | first started. I spent a lot of time answering these questions myself when I ran into people. |
| 1:49.2 | And so I think it's really important to keep asking questions as this stuff rolls out |
| 1:53.3 | because it's really in that phase where we're not really sure what's going to happen. |
| 1:57.4 | All right, let's get into my conversation with Syash, Rajiv, and Amy, which is brought to you by SmartSheet. |
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