A Rise in Antisemitism; and a Conversation with the A.I. Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton

Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. The State Department's Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, the historian Deborah Lipstadt, says the prejudice is coming "from all ends of the political spectrum, and in between." It threatens not only Jews, she says, but the stability of democracies. Lipstadt and David Remnick discuss how antisemitic sentiments may overlap in complicated ways with political opposition to Israel, including anti-Zionism. Plus, The New Yorker's ideas editor speaks with Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist known as the godfather of A.I. Hinton pioneered neural networks, the artificial brains that power ChatGPT, for example.