WIRED: Hey.
Katie: Hey … ?
WIRED: It’s us. The collective consciousness of the WIRED editorial employees, right here that can assist you discuss The Massive Interview collection.
Katie: Is that this AI?
WIRED: Katie, what’s a Massive Interview?
Katie: Is it bizarre that I’m being interviewed by my very own publication?
WIRED: Hey, you created this monster. Reply the query.
Katie: It’s a dialog with somebody we—me, and also you, who’re apparently the collective consciousness of WIRED—care about, suppose is attention-grabbing, and who’s in a roundabout way shaping our shared future. That doesn’t essentially imply they’re a expertise govt or a world-famous scientist; these conversations span all the things WIRED covers.
WIRED: Like what?
Katie: Aren’t you WIRED? Don’t you understand that already? Just like the tech business and science, certain, but additionally web tradition, politics, digital safety, celeb, innovation in its many types. We cowl all of that, and we love attending to know the freaks and geeks and weirdos and rock stars—literal and figurative—who’re on the vanguard of making it.
WIRED: The collective consciousness of WIRED wish to remind you that we don’t do PR for well-known folks.
Katie: These interviews aren’t PR. They’re additionally not adversarial by definition. And we’re not attempting to trick anybody into saying one thing silly or one thing newsworthy—though I can’t cease them in the event that they do one or each of these issues! I prefer to suppose WIRED is a reasonably considerate place, and these are supposed to be considerate conversations between two sensible individuals who make sense as a pairing. We wish folks to return away feeling like they actually know the topic of the interview, their hopes and goals, their deepest fears, what they’d for breakfast, and whether or not they ever hallucinate prolonged interactions with their workers after taking nitrous oxide on the dentist’s workplace.
WIRED: You OK, boss?
Katie: It’s been an extended yr.
WIRED: Talking of the existential stress inherent in operating a media enterprise as of late, does anyone even learn anymore? Why are we publishing a bunch of interviews when everyone’s watching TikToks as of late?
Katie: Some folks nonetheless learn, sure. Good for them. However we’re not simply publishing the Massive Interview collection in textual content anymore (as we’ve been doing since 2022). We’re additionally releasing a bunch of those conversations as episodes of a brand new YouTube collection. And we’re internet hosting a whole daylong event, referred to as The Massive Interview, in San Francisco this December. Mira Murati goes to be there. So is Jensen Huang. And gold-medal-winning Olympian Phil Wizard.
WIRED: Oh, they’re all massive offers.
Katie: I do know.
WIRED: So what sort of big-deal interviews are arising right here and on YouTube, anyway?
Katie: Didn’t considered one of you fee and edit these interviews?
WIRED: Attempt to play alongside, Katie, we’re having enjoyable right here.
Katie: Proper, OK. We talked to a bunch of wonderful folks. We talked to Mark Cuban about his new pharmaceutical “disruption.” We talked to Josh Johnson, from The Every day Present, about politics and the way forward for comedy. We talked to Meredith Whittaker, president of the Sign Basis, about surveillance and AI. That’s an awesome one. We even talked to Secretary of State Antony Blinken about cybersecurity. And there’s a bunch extra within the works. We’re even placing out a particular print concern.
WIRED: How thrilling. We’re wanting ahead to chatting once more in a number of months to listen to the way it all went.
Katie: Will we be … talking once more?
WIRED: Your subsequent dental cleansing is in mid-February. We assume you’ll as soon as once more be indulging within the nitrous oxide from the dentist’s workplace consolation menu?
Katie: After this interplay I’m truthfully not so certain.
WIRED: Joyful modifying, boss. Till we meet once more.
