# Noah Smith

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Meet the Diocese's New Vocations Director with Fr. Nick Smith - 09/12/2026

Segment 1 — Diocesan news and a Poland pilgrimage Bishop Joensen opens with an update on the water main break that flooded the Bishop's Celebration of Education just as keynote speaker Father Ross Caniglia was being introduced. Water poured into the downtown facility at depths of six to twelve inch…

Shut Up or Shut Down? Amodei, Altman, Musk & the Great AI Freakout

Something unprecedented happened yesterday. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Dario Amodei — rivals who rarely agree on anything — all called for an AI slowdown. It came after more and more doomsday warnings from experts which seem to have finally woken Congress up to AI’s potentially existential threat. …

Episode 095 - Utilize But Verify - AI in the Rare Disease Journey w/ Dr. Michael Henry

Welcome to Episode 095 of the Beyond the Diagnosis Podcast. Artificial intelligence is changing the way we find, understand, and use medical information—but what does that mean for people living with rare disease? In this episode, Kathy talks with Dr. Michael Henry about the role AI can play in the…

Ep. 13 - Grief and Betrayal After a Late Autism Diagnosis: Identity Loss and Institutional Failure

Show Notes Episode details * Season (Thread): 2 * Episode number: 13 * Release date: 2026-09-24 * Hosts: * Natasha Stavros, PhD — author of The Unmasking Diary and Burning Inside Out (coming to a bookstore near you in December 2026) * Sarah Liebman — licensed marriage and family therapist, ADHD-dia…

The EA Panic Is Overblown | Noah Smith

Noah Smith discusses the anthropological history of San Francisco's tech culture, tracing its evolution from early 2000s "techno-hippies" to big tech corporate strivers, and evaluates how GDP metrics fail to capture technological shifts. He also breaks down the rise of effective altruism, rationali…

Noah Smith of Ai2: OLMo, Molmo, and Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science

Noah Smith, Senior Director of NLP Research at Ai2, explains why open weights alone do not give researchers meaningful control over AI systems. Drawing on Ai2’s OLMo and Molmo projects, he shows how opening training data, code, intermediate checkpoints, and evaluations enables reproducible experime…

David Deming on Social Skills, AI and the Future of Harvard

This week, we’re joined by David Deming, top labor economist, blogger at the Forked Lightning Substack, and — since 2025 — Undergraduate Dean of Harvard College, to ask how the value of social skills will change in the age of thinking and talking machines. We start with his QJE paper “The Growing I…

Lomez vs Noah Smith: The Debate on American Assimilation | Ep 88

Can America still become one people? Noah Smith joins Lomez for an honest debate over immigration, assimilation, ethnogenesis, and the future of American identity. Sponsors: ►Preroll Try Sage Teacher at https://www.sageteacher.ai/ One subscription covers your whole family. Use promo code RU…

Dave Holly Hour Episode 340 Thursday, October 8th, 2026

Features actors Macie Lupica & Noah Smith anx singer/songwriter Col

Ep. 14 - Meltdowns and Shutdowns (1 of 2) - Biophysical and Mental Health

Show Notes Episode details * Season (Thread): 3 * Episode number: 14 * Release date: 2026-10-08 * Hosts: * Natasha Stavros, PhD — author of The Unmasking Diary and Burning Inside Out (coming to a bookstore near you in December 2026) * Sarah Liebman — licensed marriage and family therapist, ADHD-dia…