Walter Isaacson and Mustafa Suleyman in Conversation: The Age of AI — A Live Recording of The Builders

Overview

Bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson joins us for a live recording of the first episode of his brand-new podcast, The Builders, with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI and one of the most influential thinkers and leaders working in artificial intelligence today.

AI is reshaping our world at breathtaking speed. But behind the technology, real human beings are making choices about what our future will look like, how we’ll work and live, and whose vision will shape what comes next. And as AI grows more powerful, so does the unease surrounding it. Will it usher in an era of extraordinary human possibility — or are we building something we may ultimately struggle to control?

On The Builders, Walter Isaacson talks to the entrepreneurs, scientists and technologists building AI and other technologies that are rapidly reshaping our world to get inside the thinking of some of the most consequential figures of our time. Throughout his career, Isaacson has been fascinated by the people who change the world — from Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna and Elon Musk. With The Builders, he turns his attention to the entrepreneurs, scientists and technologists building AI and the other technologies transforming our lives. For this special live recording, Isaacson sits down with Suleyman to go inside the ideas, ambitions and decisions driving the AI revolution. From fears about jobs and misinformation to the existential question of whether superintelligent machines could one day threaten humanity itself, the stakes can feel almost impossibly high. What does it mean to build technology with the power to reshape society? Who gets to decide where it takes us?

Hear two singular thinkers explore the promise, power and profound questions of the AI age and the question at the heart of The Builders: whose imagination do we want to live in?