BlueDot Stories
Learn about the backstories behind the people who are working hard to ensure AI benefits humanity.
Podcasting since 2025 • 5 episodes
BlueDot Stories
Latest Episodes
Quitting OpenAI When Everyone Else Wanted In — Ashyana-Jasmine Kachra
In this episode, Dewi speaks with Ashyana, an AI ethics and safety manager at Google DeepMind, who took one of the most unconventional paths into frontier AI safety — a politics degree, 700 job rejections, and a research project with 90 women a...
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Can Insurance Make AI Systems Safer? — Daniel Reti & Luca Ambroz
In this episode, Dewi speaks with Daniel and Luca, two quantitative analysts who left Bank of America to build Exona Labs — a startup helping insurance companies price AI risks. Daniel shares his path from applied maths in Hungary through finan...
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Why AI Safety Needs Founders – Ryan Kidd
In this episode, Dewi speaks with Ryan Kidd, an Australian quantum physicist who pivoted from academia to become co-executive director of MATS (ML Alignment & Theory Scholars), one of the field's most ambitious AI safety talent pipelines.&n...
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AI Safety Needs More Generalists – David Conrad
In this episode, Dewi speaks with David Conrad, an Australian entrepreneur who went from running a nationwide chain of premium pet resorts to helping build Europe’s AI policy talent pipeline.David shares how burnout, the pandemic, and a...
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Is It Possible To Be a Good Guy in AI? – Kris Bar
Conversations with the people shaping the future of AI.In this episode, Dewi sits down with Kris Bar, a former quantum computer scientist who later worked in the UK government on the Online Safety Act before moving into more direct AI Sa...
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