Best Causal Machine Learning Podcasts (2025)

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922: AI for Manufacturing and Industry, with Hugo Dozois-Caouette 28:29

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Hugo Dozois-Caouette speaks to Jon Krohn about his startup MaintainX and how he secured $100 million in venture capital. MaintainX manages and maintains computerized maintenance management systems (CMSs), or work-execution software, for the industrial and manufacturing industries. This “digitized version of a clipboard” with the help of web and mob…

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921: NPUs vs GPUs vs CPUs for Local AI Workloads, with Dell’s Ish Shah and Shirish Gupta 1:12:12

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Using Windows for AI development and the bleeding edge of NPUs: Shirish Gupta and Ish Shah from Dell Technologies speak to Jon Krohn about the latest products from Dell, the future of neural-processing units (NPUs), and how AI developers can make sound hardware investments. This episode is brought to you by the Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AW…

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Why Am I Seeing This? 49:36

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In this episode of Data Skeptic, we explore the challenges of studying social media recommender systems when exposure data isn't accessible. Our guests Sabrina Guidotti, Gregor Donabauer, and Dimitri Ognibene introduce their innovative "recommender neutral user model" for inferring the influence of opaque algorithms.…

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920: In Case You Missed It in August 2025 21:57

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This month’s episode of In Case You Missed It gives us reasons to be cautiously optimistic about the future of large language models (LLMs), with guests discussing what to do about recent reports that found AI agents blackmailed human users when threatened, the importance of post-training LLMs, and the training we have available for data and AI eng…

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919: Hopes and Fears of AGI, with All-Time Bestselling ML Author Aurélien Géron 1:29:51

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PyTorch, AGI, and the future of alignment research: Aurélien Géron joins Jon Krohn in this live interview to talk about the fourth edition of his bestselling Hands-On Machine Learning as well as what superintelligence makes him hopeful for, as well as what concerns him about machines surpassing human intelligence. This episode is brought to you by …

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Eco-aware GNN Recommenders 44:42

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In this episode of Data Skeptic, we dive into eco-friendly AI with Antonio Purificato, a PhD student from Sapienza University of Rome. Antonio discusses his research on "EcoAware Graph Neural Networks for Sustainable Recommendations" and explores how we can measure and reduce the environmental impact of recommender systems without sacrificing perfo…

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918: Multi-Agent Systems with CrewAI 9:16

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn introduces listeners to CrewAI, an open-source Python framework that can create and manage multi-agent teams. The clue is in the title: CrewAI assembles specialized agents into single “crews” that achieve complex goals between them. CrewAI’s agent teams can also learn and iterate, meaning that after the crew ha…

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917: 8 Steps to Becoming an AI Engineer, with Kirill Eremenko 1:15:33

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Founder of SuperDataScience, Kirill Eremenko, talks to Jon Krohn about how he found the best tools and approaches to help launch his 8-week AI engineering bootcamp. He breaks down the topics participants cover each week, and he also shares his tips with listeners who might want to start their own tech bootcamp or sign up for SuperDataScience’s Sept…

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916: The 5 Key GPT-5 Takeaways 9:40

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GPT-5 has just been released, but with not very much fanfare. In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn asks if GPT-5 deserves the community’s underwhelmed response to its release. He outlines five features of the model and explains why people might be feeling less than enthusiastic in the broader context of LLM development. Which LLMs are leading the …

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915: How to Jailbreak LLMs (and How to Prevent It), with Michelle Yi 1:09:33

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Tech leader, investor, and Generationship cofounder Michelle Yi talks to Jon Krohn about finding ways to trust and secure AI systems, the methods that hackers use to jailbreak code, and what users can do to build their own trustworthy AI systems. Learn all about “red teaming” and how tech teams can handle other key technical terms like data poisoni…

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Networks and Recommender Systems 17:45

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Kyle reveals the next season's topic will be "Recommender Systems". Asaf shares insights on how network science contributes to the recommender system field.

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914: Data Lakes 101 (and Why They’re Key for AI Models), with Oz Katz 25:52

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Cofounder and CTO of lakeFS Oz Katz talks to Jon Krohn about data warehouses, data lakes, and how companies can handle increasingly complex data infrastructures and formats. Hear about lakeFS’s collaboration with Legofest, lakeFS’s approach to helping users collaborate on data lakes, and how to overcome the challenges of…

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913: LLM Pre-Training and Post-Training 101, with Julien Launay 1:15:16

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Julien Launay launched Adaptive to give data science teams in business enterprises their “RLOps tooling” to make reinforcement learning easier. Talking to Jon Krohn, Julien says, “Most of our users are data scientists who write Python codes to interface with the system”. Adaptive is also able to work with companies without data science teams, colla…

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912: In Case You Missed It in July 2025 32:38

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In this episode of In Case You Missed It, we look back on five great interview episodes from July. Hear from Lilith Bat-Leah (Episode 901), Sinan Ozdemir (Episode 903), Sebastian Gehrmann (Episode 905), Zohar Bronfman (Episode 907) and Robert Ness (Episode 909). They’ll tell you why data-centric machine learning is so important across disciplines, …

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911: The Future of Python Notebooks is Here, with Marimo’s Dr. Akshay Agrawal 58:20

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Reproducibility, Python notebooks, and data science communities: Software developer Akshay Agrawal speaks to Jon Krohn about Marimo, the next-generation computational notebook for Python, how he built and fostered a thriving community around the product, and what makes this notebook so versatile and accessible for users. Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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910: AI is Disrupting Journalism: The Good, The Bad and The Opportunity 10:24

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn looks into AI’s disruption of the journalism industry and how it has fundamentally reshaped news production. Multiple news outlets’ suing of ChatGPT over its use of copyrighted materials may have taken the most headlines to date, but this isn’t to say news media is rebuffing AI entirely. On the contrary, severa…

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909: Causal AI, with Dr. Robert Usazuwa Ness 1:22:27

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Researcher at Microsoft Robert Usazuwa Ness talks to Jon Krohn about how to achieve causality in AI with correlation-based learning, the right libraries, and handling statistical inference. When dealing with causal AI, Robert notes how important it is to keep aware of variables in the data that may mislead us and force inaccurate assumptions. Not a…

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908: AI Agents Blackmail Humans 96% of the Time (Agentic Misalignment) 8:50

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The moral and ethical implications of letting AI take the wheel in business, as revealed by Anthropic: Jon Krohn looks into Anthropic’s latest research on how to use and deploy LLMs safely, specifically in business environments. The team designed scenarios to test the behavior of AI agents when given a goal and a set of obstacles to reach it. Those…

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907: Neuroscience, AI and the Limitations of LLMs, with Dr. Zohar Bronfman 1:21:16

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“Intelligence has many forms,” says Zohar Bronfman, who speaks with Jon Krohn about the fascinating intersection between computational neuroscience and philosophy, and how it has brought him closer to understanding what is necessary to develop human-like intelligence in machines, as well as his motivations for launching Pecan AI and why predictive …

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Network of Past Guests Collaborations 34:10

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Kyle and Asaf discuss a project in which we link former guests of the podcast based on their co-authorship of academic papers.

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AI, Trust, and Collaboration: a conversation with Knowledge Quarter CEO, Jodie Eastwood 38:04

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In this special summer episode of Gateway to Informatics, we feature a live recording from the Bloomsbury Institute in London. Host Philip Payne, PhD is joined by Jodie Eastwood, CEO of the Knowledge Quarter, and Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, Professor and Chief Data Scientist at WashU Medicine. The episode dives deep into the innovative ecosystem of t…

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906: How Prof. Jason Corso Solved Computer Vision’s Data Problem 29:29

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Jason Corso speaks to Jon Krohn in this Five-Minute Friday all about Voxel51’s latest tool, Verified Auto-Labelling, and the company’s incredible success in developing popular tools for computer vision. Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.superdatascience.com/906⁠ Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascie…

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905: Why RAG Makes LLMs Less Safe (And How to Fix It), with Bloomberg’s Dr. Sebastian Gehrmann 57:49

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RAG LLMs are not safer: Sebastian Gehrmann speaks to Jon Krohn about his latest research into how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) actually makes LLMs less safe, the three ‘H’s for gauging the effectivity and value of a RAG, and the custom guardrails and procedures we need to use to ensure our RAG is fit-for-purpose and secure. This is a great …

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904: A.I. is Disrupting the Entire Advertising Industry 9:14

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn reveals how AI is taking on the glitzy world of advertising. Bold claims from Meta and OpenAI contend that users will soon be able to plug in what they want and have AI churn out an ad campaign for little to no cost are shaking the advertising industry to its core. The fact that the four biggest sellers of ads …

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903: LLM Benchmarks Are Lying to You (And What to Do Instead), with Sinan Ozdemir 1:28:20

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Has AI benchmarking reached its limit, and what do we have to fill this gap? Sinan Ozdemir speaks to Jon Krohn about the lack of transparency in training data and the necessity of human-led quality assurance to detect AI hallucinations, when and why to be skeptical of AI benchmarks, and the future of benchmarking agentic and multimodal models. Addi…

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The Network Diversion Problem 46:14

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In this episode, Professor Pål Grønås Drange from the University of Bergen, introduces the field of Parameterized Complexity - a powerful framework for tackling hard computational problems by focusing on specific structural aspects of the input. This framework allows researchers to solve NP-complete problems more efficiently when certain parameters…

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902: In Case You Missed It in June 2025 29:29

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In this episode of “In Case You Missed It”, Jon recaps his June interviews on The SuperDataScience Podcast. Hear from Diane Hare, Avery Smith, Kirill Eremenko, and Shaun Johnson as they talk about the best portfolios for AI practitioners, how to stand out in a saturated candidate market for AI roles, how to tell when an AI startup is going places, …

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901: Automating Legal Work with Data-Centric ML (feat. Lilith Bat-Leah) 1:06:12

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Senior Director of AI Labs for Epiq Lilith Bat-Leah speaks to Jon Krohn about the ways AI have disrupted the legal industry using LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), as well as how the data-centric machine learning research movement (DMLR) is systematically improving data quality, and why that is so important. Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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Complex Dynamic in Networks 56:00

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In this episode, we learn why simply analyzing the structure of a network is not enough, and how the dynamics - the actual mechanisms of interaction between components - can drastically change how information or influence spreads. Our guest, Professor Baruch Barzel of Bar-Ilan University, is a leading researcher in network dynamics and complex syst…

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900: 95-Year-Old Annie on How to Stay Healthy and Happy 15:06

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“Stay happy and healthy”: In this special Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn speaks with Annie, his grandmother, on her 95th birthday. Hear how she is physically and mentally coping with illnesses that limit her mobility and the joys of having a pet. Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.superdatascience.com/900⁠⁠ Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience P…

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899: Landing $200k+ AI Roles: Real Cases from the SuperDataScience Community, with Kirill Eremenko 1:33:12

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Data science skills, a data science bootcamp, and why Python and SQL still reign supreme: In this episode, Kirill Eremenko returns to the podcast to speak to Jon Krohn about SuperDataScience subscriber success stories, where to focus in a field that is evolving incredibly quickly, and why in-person working and networking might give you the edge ove…

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Github Network Analysis 36:46

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In this episode we'll discuss how to use Github data as a network to extract insights about teamwork. Our guest, Gabriel Ramirez, manager of the notifications team at GitHub, will show how to apply network analysis to better understand and improve collaboration within his engineering team by analyzing GitHub metadata - such as pull requests, issues…

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Building the Future of Public Health: A Conversation with Dr. Sandro Galea 39:49

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In the latest episode of Gateway to Informatics, Dr. Philip Payne, WashU Medicine's Chief Data Scientist, hosts Dr. Sandro Galea, the inaugural Margaret C Ryan Dean of the newly established Washington University School of Public Health. Dr. Galea, a renowned population health scientist and physician, shares his extraordinary journey from Malta to C…

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898: My Four-Hour Agentic AI Workshop is Live and 100% Free 5:06

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn announces his new, free workshop on Agentic AI. On this four-hour comprehensive course, you’ll learn the key terminology for working with these flexible, multi-agent systems and then get to grips with developing and deploying this artificial “team of experts” for all your AI-driven projects. Additional material…

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897: How to Enable Enterprise AI Transformation, with Strategy Consultant Diane Hare 1:02:42

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Diane Hare talks to Jon Krohn about the power of storytelling for corporate buy-in of AI initiatives, how to actively implement AI to transform organizations, and how emerging professionals can upskill themselves. Hear how she discovered her background in storytelling at Ernst & Young and her work with Simon Sinek, which she finds to be integral to…

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Networks and Complexity 17:49

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In this episode, Kyle does an overview of the intersection of graph theory and computational complexity theory. In complexity theory, we are about the runtime of an algorithm based on its input size. For many graph problems, the interesting questions we want to ask take longer and longer to answer! This episode provides the fundamental vocabulary a…