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Big Questions with Cal Fussman

Aug 18, 2026

Lachi and the Search for AI's Best, Without Its Worst Lachi is blind. She's also a Grammy-nominated recording artist, a Grammy trustee, and the voice behind Diseducation — a song built on the idea that the world needs a new way of thinking about disability. Her latest album, Magnificent, features more than 70...


Aug 11, 2026

"If you want to know what life's like when you're not the apex of intelligence, ask a chicken."That's the line that Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning "Godfather of AI" dropped on Steven Bartlett's podcast. It stopped Cal cold. Along with a lot of other people. One of them was a digital anthropologist and...


Aug 4, 2026

Everybody's telling you that AI is coming for your job. Kevin Surace is here to tell you what they're not telling you. Kevin's the father of the artificial assistant. A CNBC Top Innovator of the Decade. He’s the holder of more than 90 patents. And now he’s the author of The Joy-Success Cycle – a book that is going...


Jul 28, 2026

A patient kept showing up in the Emergency Room. Most insurance reps would approve or decline each claim and move on. One customer service representative at Devoted Health called to ask the patient why there were so many repeated visits. Didn’t take long for the rep to discover the problem. It was created by mold in...


Jul 21, 2026

Cal has a suspicion that the little-known K Economy explains more about where the world is headed than most of what you hear on the news. So he reaches out to one of the world's most masterful interpreters of geopolitics and finance to break it down for the Big Questions audience. As founder of Tanto Capital, Ozan...