The Geometry of Reasoning and Learning in the Age of Agentic AI with Stefano Soatto
Artificial intelligence affects how we understand the behavior of machine learning systems. Stefano Soatto, VP of Applied Science, Amazon We...
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20 of 105 episodesYouth Mental Health and Conversational AI: AI Use for Emotional Support In the Wild
Youth mental health is increasingly shaped by how teens use AI for emotional support outside clinical care. Cinnamon Bloss, Ph.D., UC San Di...
Growing Human Brains in Space
Brain aging and neurological disease are hard to study because living human brain tissue is difficult to access. Alysson Muotri, Ph.D., UC S...
My Life Has Been Lucky! with Shun-Ichi Amari 2025 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Advanced Technology
Shun-ichi Amari received the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, specifically in the field of Information Technology, for his work on neural...
CARTA: The Idea Organ - Questions Answers and Closing Remarks
Humans live in a world of ideas—born in the brain, shared through language, accumulated in culture across generations, and made reality. Fro...
Where Are We Now? Bias in Health AI
Bias in health AI can shape who gets care, how fairly risk is measured, and whether automation helps or harms patients. Karandeep Singh, M.D...
CARTA: Development and Evolutionary Specializations of Human Cognitive Networks with Nenad Sestan
The extraordinary abilities of the cerebral cortex are central to what sets humans apart from other species. A defining feature of the corte...
CARTA: The Costs of Big Brains with Alex Pollen
Human brain expansion is often discussed in terms of the genetic and molecular innovations that drove uniquely human cognitive abilities. Ye...
Artificial Intelligence in (AI-Driven) Healthcare
AI in healthcare raises urgent questions about bias, privacy, and power. Safiya U. Noble, Ph.D., examines how AI systems can reproduce socia...
CARTA: The Human Brain in its Usual Extraordinary and Compromised States with Bruce Miller
Dr. Bruce Miller, director of the UCSF Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center, examines what neurodegenerative disease reveals about...
Germline Epigenetic Imprints Regulate Mammalian Development with Azim Surani 2025 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Basic Sciences
Azim Surani, Director of Research at the Gurdon Institute and Professor Emeritus at University of Cambridge, received the Kyoto Prize in Bas...
CARTA: The Transformational Potential of Computer-assisted Brains with Joseph Paradiso
From stone tools and shelters to symbolic art and abstract thought, human history is shaped by a brain built to form and share ideas. Joseph...
Mapping Cognitive Resilience: How Environment Aging and Inflammation Shape Information Encoding in the Hippocampus
Cognitive resilience depends on how the brain responds to environment, aging, and inflammation. J. Tiago Gonçalves, Ph.D., studies the hippo...
Learning Beyond the Data: Adam Klivans on Distribution Shift and the Future of AI
Trustworthy machine learning requires models that still work when real-world data changes, and Adam Klivans, Ph.D., Director of the Institut...
CARTA: The Evolution of the Human Brain through Shifts in Gene Regulation with Miles Wilkinson
A fundamental question in biology is: how did humans acquire their unique characteristics? What allows us to stand upright, while our primat...
CARTA: Human Brain Specializations Related to Language and Theory of Mind with James Rilling
Humans excel at transmitting ideas, skills, and knowledge across generations, and at building on those competencies in a cumulative manner....
CARTA: Hominin Paleoneurology During the Stone Age - and Before! with Dean Falk
The distinct biology of the human brain, scaffolded by language and culture, allows ideas to be formed, named, shared, and accumulated acros...
CARTA: Human-specific Alterations in Brain Cellular Proportions with Genevieve Konopka
Our brains are engines of imagination—an “idea organ” that has transformed both our species and the planet. Genevieve Konopka, Chair of the...
CARTA: The Idea Organ - Welcome and Opening Remarks
Humans live in a world of ideas—born in the brain, shared through language, accumulated in culture across generations, and made reality. Fro...
CARTA: Neanderthalizing Brain Organoids with Alysson Muotri
Humans live in a world of ideas—born in the brain, shared through language, accumulated in culture across generations, and made reality. Pro...