Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

In Episode 3 of Exponential, we sat down with Nexus Chief Strategy Officer Alex Fowler for a conversation about the forces shaping the next era of the internet.With a career that spans bioethics, early cryptographic policy, and consumer technology, Alex brings a rare combination of philosophical grounding and technical experience to one of the most urgent questions of our time: as machines begin acting on our behalf, who can we trust?

The rapid expansion of AI systems has ignited a fundamental question: How do humans stay meaningfully involved as intelligent software grows more capable, autonomous, and ubiquitous?The second episode of Exponential: A Nexus Podcast features Jordan Gray, co-founder of PublicAI, a startup working to ensure human participation remains central to the future of artificial intelligence. In a wide-ranging discussion, Gray outlines how PublicAI is developing infrastructure to support distributed human intelligence — a system designed to complement large-scale AI with real-time human oversight, input, and accountability.Learn more about this episode at blog.nexus.xyz.

What if you could hear the future being built—one idea, one insight, one proof at a time?We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Exponential, a new Nexus podcast about the people, code, and capital shaping the frontier of technology. Each episode features conversations with founders, engineers, and thinkers working at the edge of what’s possible—from cryptography and AI to systems design and economic coordination.Our mission is simple: to surface the deep motivations and bold architectures behind tomorrow’s most important systems.To open the series, we sat down with Nexus founder and CEO Daniel Marin for a wide-ranging conversation on the origins of the company, the pursuit of verifiable computation, and the foundational vision driving Nexus forward.