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On with Kara Swisher

How To AI: A Practical Business Q&A With Three Experts

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

Society & Culture

4.23.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

As more companies push AI in their workplaces, the technology is rapidly reshaping the way many of us do our jobs. But a lot of people — from entry-level employees to the C-Suite — are still in the dark about the limits of AI, its best uses, and how to make it work for them.  We called in a panel of AI experts to answer some our listeners’ burning questions about how to use it at work: Sayash Kapoor, co-author of the book AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Can Do, What it Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference and the Substack AI as Normal Technology; Rajeev Kapur, CEO of 1105 Media and author of the book AI Made Simple: A Beginner's Guide to Generative Intelligence; and futurist and author Amy Webb, founder and CEO of the consulting firm Future Today Strategy Group. Kara, Sayash, Rajeev and Amy break down everything from how vibe coding works to thornier questions around privacy and regulation. They talk about how young people can prepare themselves to enter the workforce, and how all of us can develop skills to stay relevant. And, of course, they weigh in on the question so many of us are asking right now: Is AI coming for my job?  Questions? Comments? Email us at on@voxmedia.com or find us on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky @onwithkaraswisher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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