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Beware the 20x Engineer, 2026.05.11
Jun 24, 2026
53m 14s
Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole (with Dr. Nathalie Maréchal), 2026.05.04
Jun 9, 2026
1h 03m 54s
LIVE: Anthropic Imagines a Very Special Boy, 2026.04.30
May 26, 2026
1h 01m 22s
Hotter Than (AI) Hell, 2026.04.20
May 13, 2026
55m 37s
There's No Ghost in the Machine (with Carmen Maria Machado), 2026.04.13
Apr 28, 2026
53m 37s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/24/26 | Beware the 20x Engineer, 2026.05.11 | "Sure, LLMs are bad at some things, but you can't deny that they're useful for programming!" Sound familiar? In this week's episode, Emily and Alex break down the key myths around AI-boosted productivity in tech. Plus, Alex previews her work with DAIR's newly launched Luddite Lab, where workers are organizing against automation. References: Yale Budget Lab report: "What Might AI Adoption Mean for the Fiscal and Economic Outlook?"Also referenced: Karger et al. paper funded by Open Philanthropy... | 53m 14s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole (with Dr. Nathalie Maréchal), 2026.05.04✨ | AIexistential risk+4 | Dr. Nathalie Maréchal | Future of Life InstituteMST3k+1 | — | Bernie SandersAI+5 | — | 1h 03m 54s | |
| 5/26/26 | LIVE: Anthropic Imagines a Very Special Boy, 2026.04.30✨ | AI ethicslive podcast+4 | — | AnthropicMeta+2 | — | AnthropicAI+6 | — | 1h 01m 22s | |
| 5/13/26 | Hotter Than (AI) Hell, 2026.04.20✨ | AI hypedata centers+4 | — | ChatGPT | Fresh AI Hell | AIhype+5 | — | 55m 37s | |
| 4/28/26 | There's No Ghost in the Machine (with Carmen Maria Machado), 2026.04.13✨ | automation in writingpublishing industry+3 | Carmen Maria Machado | In the Dream HouseHer Body and Other Parties | — | automationwriters+3 | — | 53m 37s | |
| 4/16/26 | Uber for Military Surveillance (with Niamh McIntyre), 2026.03.30✨ | automated translationgig economy+4 | Niamh McIntyre | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism | USEast Africa | automated translationgig workers+5 | — | 53m 44s | |
| 3/31/26 | Data Centers Go Nuclear (with Maia Woluchem and Dr. Livia Garofalo), 2026.03.09✨ | data centersnuclear energy+3 | Maia WoluchemDr. Livia Garofalo | Data & SocietyPennsylvania is pe... | Pennsylvania | data centersnuclear energy+4 | — | 57m 12s | |
| 3/17/26 | Data Centers in Space!? (with Dr. Adam Becker), 2026.03.02✨ | data centersspace technology+4 | Dr. Adam Becker | More Everything Forever | — | data centersspace+4 | — | 53m 38s | |
| 2/26/26 | How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (with Naomi Klein), 2026.02.09✨ | AI and militaryglobal imperialism+3 | Naomi Klein | The GuardianEnd Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World | — | AImilitary+5 | — | 52m 02s | |
| 2/12/26 | A Bad Case of Hype-itis, 2026.02.02✨ | AI in medicinehealthcare system+4 | — | ChatGPTStop Worrying, and Let A.I. Help Save Your Life+3 | — | AIChatGPT+5 | — | 56m 20s | |
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| 1/30/26 | Hell All the Way Down, 2022–2025✨ | AIimprovised transitions+4 | — | MAIHT3kThe AI Con | — | AI Hellsupercut+4 | — | 40m 34s | |
| 1/13/26 | Wrapping Up a Hellish 2025, 2025.12.15✨ | AIyear in review+3 | — | TIMEStanford AI Index+1 | — | AI architects2025+3 | — | 58m 29s | |
| 12/30/25 | Defining AGI: Oops! All Eugenics, 2025.12.08✨ | artificial general intelligenceAI definitions+3 | — | DoctronicNIST+2 | — | AGIartificial intelligence+3 | — | 55m 01s | |
| 12/16/25 | This is What Algo-cracy Looks Like, 2025.12.01✨ | AI governancedemocracy+3 | — | Collective Intelligence ProjectCalMatters+3 | — | AI governancedemocracy+3 | — | 59m 14s | |
| 12/2/25 | You Talked to Workers for This Labor Research... Right? (with Sophie Song), 2025.11.17✨ | labor researchautomation+4 | Sophie Song | DAIRChatGPT+1 | — | automationlabor research+5 | — | 53m 14s | |
| 11/18/25 | Drag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27 | It's been six months since our last all-Hell episode! In honor of Halloween season, we take a long journey into the very scary Fresh AI Hell mines. Topics include terrifying uses of AI in education, scientific research, and politics — plus, some delicious palate cleansers along the way. AI bubble: bigger than dot-com bust? No one wants to pay for ChatGPT Meta lays off 600 from AI unit AI data centers: an even bigger disaster than we thought Public universities anticipate data center-driven po... | 56m 44s | ||||||
| 10/30/25 | Crunching the Numbers (with Decca Muldowney), 2025.10.20 | So-called AI tools are increasingly infiltrating newsrooms, particularly when it comes to data analysis. DAIR writer-in-residence Decca Muldowney joins us to discuss the need for journalists to distinguish between "AI" and reliable, verifiable research methods. Decca Muldowney is a journalist and writer who was our fact checker for The AI Con. She's also a writer-in-residence and web editor at the Distributed AI Research Institute. References: An early AI pioneer shares how the "vibe coding"... | 56m 20s | ||||||
| 10/14/25 | Building Worlds Through Better Reading (with Reo Eveleth), 2025.09.29 | Powerful AI boosters claim to love science fiction novels, but why do they always seem to take the wrong lessons from them? Reporter and writer Reo Eveleth joins us to discuss the ways tech leaders misuse storytelling, and how we can avoid their visions to imagine better futures. Reo Eveleth is a reporter, writer, and co-founder of COYOTE Media Collective. They created the hit independent show Flash Forward, which they also turned into a book of the same name. Reo’s work has been nominated f... | 56m 59s | ||||||
| 10/1/25 | Three Years of Ridicule as Praxis, 2025.09.19 | It's Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000's third birthday! To celebrate, Emily and Alex respond to listener questions about the show, and reflect on the past and future of AI hype. Topics range from how to talk to your kids about LLMs, to what the MAIHT3k birthday cake looks like. Artifacts referenced: AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark Data and its (dis)contents Stochastic Parrots Day Dr. Casey Fiesler on TikTok Dr. Nicole Holliday on TikTok Alex and Emily’s media appearances... | 55m 42s | ||||||
| 9/11/25 | The Robo-Therapist Will See You Now (with Maggie Harrison Dupré), 2025.08.18 | Talking to chatbots can have serious mental health consequences — fueling delusions and leading users away from consensus reality. Futurism writer Maggie Harrison Dupré joins us to unpack the hype around AI therapists, based on her groundbreaking reporting on "AI psychosis." Maggie Harrison Dupré is an award-winning tech journalist at Futurism who’s reported extensively on the rise of AI as a cultural and business force shaping media, information, humans, and our real and digital lives. Ref... | 55m 07s | ||||||
| 8/26/25 | Winning the Race to Hell (with Sarah Myers West and Kate Brennan), 2025.08.04 | Trump’s “AI Action Plan” is his latest attempt to turn AI hype into official national policy. Kate Brennan and Sarah Myers West, of the AI Now Institute, join us to dig through this pile of deregulatory gifts to Big Tech. Dr. Sarah Myers West is co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, and a former senior advisor on AI for the FTC. Dr. Kate Brennan is associate director of the AI Now Institute, where she spearheads their policy work, informed by a doctorate in law and years of experienc... | 57m 51s | ||||||
| 8/13/25 | Vibe Coding: Four Security Nightmares in a Trenchcoat (with Susanna Cox), 2025.07.21 | After many months of making fun of the term "vibe coding," Emily and Alex tackle the LLMs-as-coders fad head-on, with help from security researcher Susanna Cox. From one person's screed that proclaims everyone not on the vibe-coding bandwagon to be crazy, to the grandiose claim that LLMs could be the "opposable thumb" of the entire world of computing. It's big yikes, all around. Susanna Cox is a consulting AI security researcher and a member of the core author team at OWASP AI Exchange. Refer... | 59m 00s | ||||||
| 7/30/25 | Et Tu, American Federation of Teachers? (with Charles Logan), 2025.07.14 | The chatbot boosters are looking for educators to play brand ambassador for more intrusion of so-called "AI" into the classroom. From the American Federation of Teachers' new partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft for a "national academy for AI instruction" to yet more articles extolling the alleged time-saving and future-proofing virtues of LLM-powered ed tech, the hype can feel relentless. Charles Logan joins Alex and Emily for a critical look at the latest propaganda for "AI" in the classro... | 1h 00m 58s | ||||||
| 7/7/25 | Why "AI" Is a Con: Our Book Launch! (with Vauhini Vara), 2025.05.08 | It's finally here! The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want hit the shelves in May. In this special bonus episode, Alex and Emily speak to tech journalist Vauhini Vara at one of the book's online launch events, where they covered the misleading nature of the term "artificial intelligence," why the use of tools like ChatGPT will only ever cheapen human labor and enrich the already powerful, and how people can fight the narrative that these technologies are inevita... | 1h 16m 52s | ||||||
| 6/20/25 | "Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud", 2025.05.26 | Because Sam Altman hates opening his laptop, OpenAI is merging with iPhone guy Jony Ive's design firm in the name of some mysterious new ChatGPT-enabled consumer products: Alex and Emily go full Mystery Science Theater and dissect the announcement video. Plus how tech billionaires like Sam Altman mythologize San Francisco while their money makes it less livable for everyone else. References: Sam Altman and Jony Ive are merging (Video) Emplacedness, real estate, and gentrification in San Fra... | 59m 50s | ||||||
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