Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart phones and robots. The Intelligent Machines podcast explores the most exciting revolution humanity has ever seen, filled with promise and peril. More than ever we need to understand what these new devices will bring to our lives and how to make best use of them as the 21st century unfolds. On this show you'll meet the AI pioneers, inventors, and innovators who are about to disrupt every aspect of modern life. You'll learn what's real and what's hype, and you'll come away with a deep understanding of the intelligent future that awaits us all. Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.

Episodes

December 3, 2025 177 mins

Spies aren't just in the shadows anymore—AI has turned every smartphone and social feed into a battlefield of influence and surveillance. This episode exposes how intelligence agencies, rogue states, and even TikTok are using machine learning to reshape what we know, believe, and fear.

  • Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure
  • Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
  • OpenAI CEO Declares 'Code Red' to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delay...
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AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people?

  • Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools
  • White House pauses executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on AI, sources say
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What does it take to build tech the world actually trusts? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins the crew to dig into the real crisis behind AI, social networks, and the web: trust, and how to build it when the stakes are global.

  • Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in
  • Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
  • Part 1: How I Found Out
  • $1 billi...
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Can radical optimism about AI truly shape our future, or are we stuck in a cycle of doom-and-hype? This episode features an unfiltered debate with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly on why most fears about artificial intelligence might be missing the bigger picture.

  • Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year By Collins Dictionary
  • OpenAI CFO Says Company Isn't Seeking Government Backstop, Clarifying Prior Comment
  • Montana Becomes First St...
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Is today's AI stuck as a "spiky superintelligence," brilliant at some things but clueless at others? This episode pulls back the curtain on a lunchroom full of AI researchers trading theories, strong opinions, and the next big risks on the path to real AGI.

  • Why "Everyone Dies" Gets AGI All Wrong
  • The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
  • Google's First AI Ad Avoids the Uncanny Valley by Casting a Turkey
  • Coca...
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Can an AI truly care about your feelings—or is emotional intelligence in machines just the most sophisticated form of manipulation? Dr. Alan Cowen of Hume AI joins the crew to unpack the promise and peril of emotionally adept bots, even as they're quietly shaping how we connect, seek help, and parent in the digital age.

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  • Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI too...
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Is the future of artificial intelligence running on your desk instead of in massive data centers? This episode breaks down how Nvidia's Blackwell chip and HP's new ZGX Nano could let anyone fine-tune jaw-dropping language models at home—and why privacy, cost, and control are suddenly up for grabs.

  • Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
  • Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
  • Leo... AI assistants make widespread errors ab...
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Can open-source AI models really be truly neutral, or are they just another conduit for hidden agendas? Hear how the founder of Nous Research is battling Silicon Valley giants to put ethical, user-controlled AI in everyone's hands.

  • TOpinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
  • AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
  • (20) Sam Altman on X: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we w...
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From lawmakers cracking down on loud ads to Deloitte caught peddling AI-fabricated reports, this episode explores how tech's greatest promises and worst follies are colliding right now.

  • No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576 | Governor of California
  • ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot
  • OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT
  • Senate Dem Report Finds Almost 100 Mil...
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What happens when ex-Google innovators build an AI-powered app that turns your emails, favorite subreddits, and even your calendar into a custom radio station you can talk to? In this episode, the creators of Hux reveal how they're reimagining the way we consume information and why radio and podcasts might never be the same.

  • Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from C...
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