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Sep 18, 2026
Kurt NelsonHOST
Now, Crystal is a professor of public policy and government and an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Washington.
Tim HoulihanHOST
Lastly, the next BSPA annual conference is going to take place next year from Thursday, May 13th to Friday, May 14th, 2027 at a super cool location of the Cornell Tech Campus, which is on Roosevelt Island in New York City.
Tim HoulihanHOST
Check it out.
Tim HoulihanHOST
Oh, man.
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Craig FoxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so he brought in some human computer interaction people and computer scientists and a few behavioral scientists.
Craig FoxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And for some reason, he invited me to be part of it.
Craig FoxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And during a break in the proceedings, as we're sort of talking about this new agenda for hybrid intelligence, I had this conversation with Wendy Zhu, who's a computer scientist at Cornell Tech working with self-driving cars.
Craig FoxSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And Wendy said, you know, we can of course make the self-driving car go straight and true in the lane.
Kusha NavidarHOST
So if there is, at least it appears to the best reporting you can find, health in the tech sector, how about down the line? Because if entry-level jobs are disappearing, how about the higher-level jobs? Are they safe, or are they just the next down the line?
Greg DavidGUEST
Well, I talked to the dean and I quote the dean of Cornell Tech in the story.
Greg DavidGUEST
And what he thinks is happening is that companies are discovering, despite whatever AI tools they hire, somebody has to supervise them.
Greg DavidGUEST
And he thinks, you know, for a while earlier this year, we thought software coders were done.
Greg DavidGUEST
I think we've got to see whether just the fact that the ads have declined doesn't tell us for sure that's going to happen, right? Sure.
Greg DavidGUEST
Sure, companies have to implement it.
Greg DavidGUEST
But Dean's view is that he needs to train the graduates of Cornell Tech somewhat differently than he did before, and I think that percolates down the line.
Greg DavidGUEST
It's sort of off the topic, but I did note that in my talk with people in the who know a lot about ai they were not thrilled by the actions of the new york city schools to dampen the use of it to restrict the use of ai so dramatically especially in the high schools because they say people are going to need those skills right i think that's a good observation
Scott AustinHOST
One of them charges brands $2,500 a month to produce somewhere between 35 and 100 brand mentions.
Scott AustinHOST
Researchers at Cornell Tech found that as few as 13 words in a Reddit comment can steer an AI answer toward a particular product.
Scott AustinHOST
Think about what that does.
Scott AustinHOST
The thing that made Reddit worth citing was that nobody was gaming it.
Bryan BoyerGUEST
might say,
Greg LindsayGUEST
was a report that I did for Cornell Tech's urban program on the augmented city.
Greg LindsayGUEST
And so the only other urban technology program in the United States is Bryan's over at Michigan.
Greg LindsayGUEST
We're sort of sister programs.
Greg LindsayGUEST
And so Between Brian and Anthony Townsend at Cornell Tech, I just sort of triangulate around this.
Greg LindsayGUEST
And I've been following Brian's work since he was at Citra, the Finnish sort of futures innovation agency, as someone who sort of ended up as an accidental urban futurist.
Greg LindsayGUEST
Brian's the real deal with folks like Dan Hill in Melbourne now and other folks there.
Dustin LanierHOST
Jake Chase provides a nice article that recaps the topic if you've not been up to speed and looks at what the future may hold.
Dustin LanierHOST
Second, Michael Simulian with Cornell Tech writes on New York City's new challenge-based procurement approach, which is designed to help promising technology move from pilot purgatory into actual government use.
Dustin LanierHOST
The approach was highlighted at the 2026 Code for America Summit as an example of the foundational work to improve how government buys, builds, and scales technology.
Dustin LanierHOST
Third, the Procurement Excellence Network releases a set of resources to help governments determine when an RFQ is the right procurement approach for infrastructure projects.
Morgan NorwoodHOST
And let's bring in Daria Ng.
Morgan NorwoodHOST
She's the head of the K-12 initiative at Cornell Tech.
Morgan NorwoodHOST
So it's so great to have you, my friend.
Morgan NorwoodHOST
What is your reaction to the New York City public school system placing these limits on AI and tech in the classroom, even involving its youngest students, as Bethany pointed out?
Daria NgGUEST
I think the question shouldn't just be simply whether AI or devices could be used in school, but really, you know, when, how and for what purpose.
Daria NgGUEST
And, you know, what we've learned through our work at Cornell Tech's K-12 initiative is that technology can be a very powerful tool for learning if it's used intentionally and in service of very clear educational goals.
Morgan NorwoodHOST
And so you also say that developmentally appropriate guardrails around this kind of technology could actually help students.
Morgan NorwoodHOST
You know, in your opinion, what does that look like?
Brett WhitefieldHOST
I loved Wandel Robinson at ADP.
Brett WhitefieldHOST
I'm obviously a huge Cornell Tech guy, and that scared me crapless.
Brett WhitefieldHOST
Then week two, didn't get any better.
Brett WhitefieldHOST
Had a ridiculous turnover.
Leah SullivanHOST
Wow.
Leah SullivanHOST
And I know you helped found Cornell Tech as well.
Leah SullivanHOST
I mean, a whole school and university.
Leah SullivanHOST
Can you share how that came about and when was that kind of around the same time or when did that happen?
Aaron HolidayGUEST
Well, I wouldn't go as far as to say I was one of the founders, but I was quite early in Cornell Tech.
Aaron HolidayGUEST
This is a really interesting turn of events as well.
Aaron HolidayGUEST
So remember, I'm trying my best to get into venture capital.
Aaron HolidayGUEST
And I was introduced to a guy named Greg Pass, who was the former CTO at Twitter, who was moving from the West Coast to New York.
Deb DoenigHOST
Yael also served as the senior advisor for tech and democracy at the Institute for Security and Technology in 2021 to 2022.
Deb DoenigHOST
She was a future of democracy fellow at the Berggruen Institute in 2021 to 2022, a researcher in residence at Betalab in 2020 to 2021, and a visiting fellow at Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative in 2019 to 2020, where she focused on technology's effects on discourse and democracy and taught a multi-university course on tech, media, and democracy.
Deb DoenigHOST
She was also an adjunct professor at NYU's Center for Global Affairs in 2017 to 2018.
Deb DoenigHOST
Yael has become a key voice and a public advocate for transparency and accountability in tech, particularly where real-world consequences affect democracy and societies around the world.
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Europe's AI Act takes effect on August second, twenty twenty-five, requiring every provider to watermark or label synthetic media distributed within the EU.
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Simultaneously, the Content Authenticity Initiative convened its largest summit at Cornell Tech in June twenty twenty-five, drafting browser level content credentials for JPEGs and MP4s alike.
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The goal is to embed traceable provenance directly into every file so that any viewer can audit an image's edit history as easily as reading its timestamp.
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[upbeat music] A decade has passed since a comedian put uncouth words in President Obama's mouth.
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