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Author, media theorist, and Team Human founder Douglas Rushkoff joins Signal & Noise LIVE at Advertising Week 2026 for a provocative conversation about AI, technology, and what we risk losing in the rush toward automation. Rushkoff challenges the assumption that more AI is inevitable—or always better—and makes the case for keeping human agency, values, and connection at the center of our technological future.

Wyoming’s data center boom promises investment, jobs and tax revenue. The benefits must reach residents. Dawson Kluesner joins Brett and Rio to examine power, water, emissions, noise and heat, compare Wyoming with Colorado, and explore opposition across party lines. A Civil Noise conversation about the commitments behind durable local growth.

Fern Potter left a senior ad-tech leadership role to co-found Intelligent Assistance around a bold premise: AI works best when it expands human judgment rather than pretending to replace it. She joins Signal & Noise to discuss why AI is not a strategy, how companies move from pilots to commercial impact, what programmatic advertising can teach us about unchecked automation, and why the future belongs to organizations that combine machine speed with human context, creativity,

The internet was built around attention. The next generation may be built around trust. In this episode, Nextdoor CEO and Co-Founder Nirav Tolia joins Signal & Noise to discuss how AI is reshaping local discovery, why trusted communities matter more than ever, the future of local journalism and advertising, and how technology can help people make better real-world decisions—not just spend more time online.