As AI permeates every aspect of our lives, who are the people behind this huge inflection point?

What keeps them up at night?

I fear that what it means to be human may suddenly not be our own.

We've got a special series from NPR's TED Radio Hour.

It's called The Profits of Technology.

What they got right, wrong, and where these pioneers think we're headed next.

Listen to the TED Radio Hour, wherever you get your podcasts.

This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross.

The Emmy Awards will be broadcast live September 14th.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be hearing from some of the nominees.

Today, we have comic, writer, and actor Sarah Silverman. Her latest comedy special

called Postmortem is nominated for two Emmys, Outstanding Variety Special and Outstanding Writing

for a Variety Special. Her stand-up comedy is always original, brave, and funny. Whether it's

talking about sex, abortion, being Jewish, racism,

or just daily life, she's willing to take risks to make a point and make it funny. She regrets a few

jokes she told in the past and later apologized for them. She was a writer and featured performer

for one season on Saturday Night Live. She played a writer on the Larry Sanders show.

From 2007 to 2010, she starred in the series The Sarah Silverman Show, and from 2017 to

2019, hosted the Hulu series, I Love You America, in which she had conversations to help her

understand people she didn't necessarily agree with.

She's been in several movies, and she's a regular on the animated series Bob's Burgers.

Earlier this year, she roasted her friend Conan O'Brien at the Kennedy Center ceremony,

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