Christopher Mims
WSJ columist and author
Christopher Mims is a Wall Street Journal technology columnist whose work makes complex tech trends accessible and actionable. Mims is the host of the WSJ Podcast “Bold Names” and the author of Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy. He has won a SABEW award for commentary and previously worked at Quartz, Scientific American and Wired.
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Jan. 27, 2026
The Compounding Advantage: Leveraging AI for Smarter Creative Work
In this episode, we dive deep into the evolving relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence. Inspired by Ada Lovelace's early vision of creative machines, we explore how the boundaries between expertise and common sense have been reshaped by modern AI, from expert systems to today's generative models. We sit down with pioneers and practitioners—Vasant Dhar, a longtime AI researcher and author of Thinking With Machines; Christopher Mims, technology journalist and author of H...