The chapter expresses gratitude towards CrowdStrike for helping with a gift card issue and highlights the support from KPMG for leading a people-powered transformation confidently with AI. Various team members are credited, and viewers are encouraged to watch the full episode on YouTube, with an ad for Bombas, a brand that sells comfortable essentials and donates with each purchase.
This week, the memes didn’t just fall out of coconut trees — a rundown of the social media reaction to Kamala Harris’s election campaign, and an exploration of what her tech platform might look like. Then we discuss a major new study on universal basic income with Elizabeth Rhodes, research director at OpenResearch, and ask whether it could be a solution to job losses to A.I. And finally, Kate Conger, a New York Times reporter, joins us to break down how the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike crashed the global IT infrastructure.
Guests:
- Elizabeth Rhodes, Research Director at OpenResearch
- Kate Conger, New York Times reporter
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