The Brown Institute is very excited to host speaker, Evan Ratliff, award-winning journalist, author & podcaster. We hope you will join us!
Evan Ratliff is an award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author, podcast host, and entrepreneur. He’s the author of the The Mastermind: A True Story of Murder, Empire, and a New Kind of Crime Lord; the writer and host of the hit podcasts Shell Game and Persona: The French Deception; and the cofounder of The Atavist Magazine, Pop-Up Magazine, and the Longform Podcast. As a writer, he’s a two-time National Magazine Award finalist. As an editor and producer, he’s a two-time Emmy nominee and National Magazine Award winner.
For his latest podcast, Shell Game, he created a voice clone and hooked it up to an AI chatbot, in an attempt to discover what happens when you take control of the technology that threatens to replace you. Evan’s voice agents talked to spammers and scammers, to Evan’s friends and family, to colleagues and sources, to other AIs, and even to a therapist—all to better understand what AI voice is able to do, what it can't yet do, and what to expect from a future in which more and more of the people we encounter in the world aren’t real.
Please note: this is a private event open to Stanford faculty, staff, and students only.
