MIT Media Lab
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Sep 23, 2026
Rana el KalioubyHOST
So you and I go way back.
Rana el KalioubyHOST
I first met you when I joined MIT Media Lab as a post-doc 20 years ago, and you, Ross Picardo, and myself co-taught a class on affective computing and empathy machines.
Rana el KalioubyHOST
But you've actually been doing this kinda work for over four decades, thinking about the technology implications on humans and our humanity.
Sherry TurkleGUEST
Yeah.
38 MINS LATER
Rana el KalioubyHOST
That was awesome.
Sherry TurkleGUEST
My pleasure.
Rana el KalioubyHOST
[Instrumental music] Sherry was one of the very first people I met when I first moved to the US and joined the MIT Media Lab as a post-doc, and so this was a really special conversation for me.
Rana el KalioubyHOST
I've been a long admirer of her work.
Bryan AllenGUEST
What would be exactly correct for this is to be able to see this guy's entire life at once.
Bryan AllenGUEST
And I'd been following a young man in MIT Media Lab, Rob Silvers, who had developed this mosaic technology.
Bryan AllenGUEST
And I sent him the script and said, what do you think? And he said, yes, this technology was made for this movie.
Bryan AllenGUEST
So I hired four photographers.
Bobby CapucciHOST
How Epstein saved Bitcoin In late August 2014, Epstein had a meeting with the U.S. Treasury Department.
Bobby CapucciHOST
According to an email he later sent to Joy Ito, Japanese entrepreneur and then director of the MIT Media Lab.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Not very bright, very opinionated, Epstein wrote about his impression of the agency officials.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Not worried about Ponzi or pump and dump, worried about nuclear proliferation payments, drug cartel transfers, and arms shipments.
Bobby CapucciHOST
What does that even mean? But do we have some kind of kings and queens? We can't find out what happened previously that our tax dollars paid for? Like, how did they square that one away? Less than a year later, Bitcoin's development was in trouble.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The Bitcoin Foundation, the nonprofit that had been paying three of the five core developers, went bankrupt.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Ito and the MIT Media Lab came to the rescue, snapping up the developers.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Well, isn't that nice? One of Jeffrey Epstein's favorite universities, MIT, coming in to save the day for the crypto clowns.
Bobby CapucciHOST
How Epstein saved Bitcoin.
Bobby CapucciHOST
In late August 2014, Epstein had a meeting with the U.S. Treasury Department, according to an email he later sent to Joi Ito, Japanese entrepreneur and then director of the MIT Media Lab.
Bobby CapucciHOST
"Not very bright, very opinionated," Epstein wrote about his impression of the agency officials.
Bobby CapucciHOST
"Not worried about Ponzi or pump and dump.
Bobby CapucciHOST
What does that even mean? What, do we have some kind of kings and queens? We can't find out what happened previously that our tax dollars paid for? Like, how did they square that one away? Less than a year later, Bitcoin's development was in trouble.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The Bitcoin Foundation, the nonprofit that had been paying three of the five core developers, went bankrupt.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Ito and the MIT Media Lab came to the rescue, snapping up the developers.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Well, isn't that nice? One of Jeffrey Epstein's favorite universities, MIT, coming in to save the day for the crypto clowns.
Bobby CapucciHOST
In late August 2014, Epstein had a meeting with the U.S. Treasury Department.
Bobby CapucciHOST
According to an email he later sent to Joy Ito, Japanese entrepreneur and then director of the MIT Media Lab.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Not very bright, very opinionated, Epstein wrote about his impression of the agency officials.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Not worried about Ponzi or pump and dump, worried about nuclear proliferation payments, drug cartel transfers, and arms shipments.
Bobby CapucciHOST
What does that even mean? What, do we have some kind of kings and queens? We can't find out what happened previously that our tax dollars paid for? Like, how did they square that one away? Less than a year later, Bitcoin's development was in trouble.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The Bitcoin Foundation, the non-profit that had been paying three of the five core developers, went bankrupt.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Ito and the MIT Media Lab came to the rescue, snapping up the developers.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Well, isn't that nice? One of Jeffrey Epstein's favorite universities, MIT, coming in to save the day for the crypto clowns.
Mitch ResnickHOST
Welcome back to the Lifelong Kindergarten podcast.
Mitch ResnickHOST
I'm Mitch Resnick, professor of learning research at the MIT Media Lab.
Mitch ResnickHOST
I started this podcast last spring to explore alternative approaches to education and learning aimed at helping all children from all backgrounds develop as creative, curious, caring, and collaborative learners so they can lead fulfilling lives and become active contributors to their communities.
Mitch ResnickHOST
I really appreciated your comments and reactions to the first 12 episodes last spring, and I'm excited to restart the conversation with you with a new season of podcasts this fall.
39 MINS LATER
Natasha SingerGUEST
It was really great to be with you, Mitch.
Natasha SingerGUEST
[outro jingle]
Mitch ResnickHOST
The Lifelong Kindergarten podcast is produced by Mitchell Resnick and Eric Schelling in the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab.
Mitch ResnickHOST
You can find other episodes, additional resources, and online conversation in our Substack at bit.ly/llkpodcast.
Bobby CapucciHOST
I don't believe that for a second.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Hoffman has maintained that he only interacted with Epstein, whose 2019 death while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges was ruled a suicide through his work fundraising for the MIT Media Lab.
Bobby CapucciHOST
On the newcomer podcast, he called Epstein a masterful networker and recalled the 2015 dinner he hosted for an MIT researcher in Palo Alto, California.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Well, they were all hanging out together.
Bobby CapucciHOST
But while we were worrying about that, these rotten bastards flipped the script.
Bobby CapucciHOST
And now it's like a brave new world.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Hoffman said that Joey Ito, former director of the MIT Media Lab, asked him if Epstein could attend the dinner, which was also attended by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Similar to his visit to the island, Hoffman said he was later told that the financier had said he was more likely to donate if he attended the dinner.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
Welcome to Foresight Institute Radio.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
Today's guest is Neha Narula, director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative and a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
Neha has spent a decade studying how digital currencies work, what makes money trustworthy and what it means for payment infrastructure to be truly open.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
Her talk asks a fundamental question that is harder to answer than it sounds.
Neha NarulaGUEST
These are a little bit new ideas that I really look forward to talking with a lot of you about.
Neha NarulaGUEST
I've heard so much about this community.
Neha NarulaGUEST
So my name is Neha, and I run a group at the Media Lab at MIT called the Digital Currency Initiative.
speaker_2MODERATOR
Uh, so...
Nick DirksHOST
Uh, you do computer science.
Nick DirksHOST
Uh, are you doing some work at that point in the Media Lab, or is that before the Media Lab?
Hans Peter BrondmoGUEST
Uh, that's before the Media Lab, but I, I, uh...
Hans Peter BrondmoGUEST
So, so what actually happened was-- So I was in the military-
Nick DirksHOST
Mm-hmm
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Nick DirksHOST
Yeah, and you did go on and build a couple of companies, uh, over your career.
Nick DirksHOST
What was the most successful since you've told us about your, your first failure?
Hans Peter BrondmoGUEST
Yeah, so I, I, I-- after that, I ended up in Japan working for Apple in Tokyo for about a year, and then was back at MIT, uh, was at the Media Lab at MIT, um, uh, for, uh, about, uh, for, for two years, uh, both at the Media Lab, started getting a, a master's degree there as well as at the, um, Technology and Policy program at, at MIT-
Peter ScottHOST
Last week, I started talking with Josche Bach, renowned cognitive scientist who uses the lens of artificial intelligence to understand the human mind.
Peter ScottHOST
He's taught and researched at Humboldt University of Berlin, the Institute for Cognitive Science in Osnabrück, the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, MIT's Media Lab, and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
Peter ScottHOST
He's the creator of the MicroSci Cognitive Architecture, the author of Principles of Synthetic Intelligence, and the executive director of the California Institute for Machine Consciousness.
Peter ScottHOST
Last week, we talked about the Institute's mission, the machine consciousness hypothesis, why we actually are in a particular kind of simulation, dreaming, the role of perceptions and predictions, and a fascinating take on Searle's Chinese room.
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