# Jesse Duke

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The Dukes of Hazzard Season 2 Episode 1 - Days of Shine and Roses

Jesse Duke versus Boss Hogg! When a bunch of old moon runners get together, it’s a matter of time before someone’s making claims about who was the best driver. Boss and Jesse dust off their racing gloves for one last ride. In a wild twist, Boss puts real shine in Jesse’s car and then calls Sheriff …

Why teachers should not reject AI without trying it

Maureen Russo Rodriguez is coming up on her 20th year as an educator and teaches language and literature — primarily Spanish, with occasional turns in English — at St. Mark's School, a small boarding school outside Boston. With a background in comparative literature and a stint in higher ed, she co…

Does AI Have to Be Bad News for the Planet? (with Meghan Busse)

Are you hurting the planet every time you query a chatbot? Economist Meghan Busse suggests that may be the wrong question. In this episode, we zoom out from the usual concerns about frivolous queries (and, for that matter, resource‑hungry data centers) to ask an even more basic question: is intense…

Fire & Ice - All Systems Down

Randy, the local surfing legend is in a one-man battle with the blaze at Sunset Point. Plus, the blizzard of the century traps four men on top of a Tennessee bald, frozen and hungry, but with a song in their heart. Sunset Point Randy, the local surfing legend is in a one-man battle with the blaze a…

Chatbots Don’t Fool Us, We Fool Ourselves (with Joshua Jay)

When people go to a magic show, they expect to be fooled. That’s part of the fun. And magician Joshua Jay says much of the magician’s work is helping people fool themselves. Our brains are hardwired to fill in gaps, predict outcomes, and take cognitive shortcuts to process the overwhelming amount o…

Our Chatbot Friends and Lovers (with Pat Pataranutaporn)

What does a healthy relationship with AI look like? Pat Pataranutaporn, researcher at the MIT Media Lab, explores how chatbots can either support or undermine human flourishing. Pat explains why it’s so easy to imagine a “someone” behind the screen and why chatbots that never push back are dangerou…

An Optimist’s Take on AI and the Future of Learning (with Sébastien Martin)

As AI tools spread through classrooms, many educators see a “cheating factory.” Kellogg Professor Sébastien Martin sees things differently: as a chance to reinvent how and what we teach. In his operations management class, students trade PDFs for lifelike chatbots, log conversations with Socrati…

Why AI Might Not Change Education Much at All (with Justin Reich)

“AI will revolutionize education!” “No, it will destroy it!” Well, which is it? If history is any guide, the impact will be limited in either direction. In this episode, MIT education researcher Justin Reich walks through a century of hype cycles — from filmstrips and radio to MOOCs and smartph…

AI, Artists, and the Future of Creative Work from Life, Automated | Close All Tabs Presents

While the Close All Tabs team churns out our next few episodes, we bring you this must-listen from Life, Automated. Generative AI is able to conjure new images, stories, and songs at lightning speed. So what does this mean for humans artists, storytellers and musicians?  Life, Automated Host Jess…

The Cybersecurity Crisis Is About More Than “Rogue AI” (with V.S. Subrahmanian)

AI is making cyberattacks cheaper, faster, and more sophisticated. Recent reports of autonomous agents compromising Hugging Face show how quickly misaligned systems can create real-world risk. But ideally those same tools could help defenders find and fix vulnerabilities before attackers exploit th…