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
Can AI stay open, ethical, and for the people? Mozilla's president joins the show to reveal their game plan—and $650 million war chest—for taking on Big Tech's monoculture with a "Rebel Alliance" approach to AI.
- State of Mozilla 2025/26
- Codeless: From idea to software - Anil Dash
- Clawdbot is the new AI techies are buzzing about — and it's renewing interest in the Mac Mini
- Qwen3-TTS Demo - a Hugging Face Space by ...
Think you know the story of AI's rise and fall? This episode upends conventional wisdom with guest historian Thomas Haigh, who reveals why the infamous "AI winter" might just be a myth and why the field's biggest failures fueled today's breakthroughs.
- Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
- NVDA, GOOGL, META: AI Spending Forecast to Hit $2.53 Trillion This Year
- Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to mak...
Disinformation expert Craig Silverman joins the crew to break down why AI makes scams and fake news easier, faster, and nearly impossible to spot—while Big Tech quietly profits. If you think spotting digital deception is tough now, wait until you hear how deep the rabbit hole goes.
- Claude Code
- Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes
- Apple taps Google to power a new Siri and future AI tool...
Jason Hiner gives us a look at the AI products at CES 2026, as big tech and chip makers blurred the lines between consumer gadgets and enterprise innovation, leaving even veteran insiders wondering: will this tech boom actually benefit everyday users?
- NVIDIA's Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle
- No, Grok can't really "apologize" for posting non-consensual sexual images
- Introducing ChatGPT Health
- 'We have to reject that w...
Our interviews with:
- Ray Kurzweil
- Alex Hanna
- Emily Bender
- Mike Masnick
- Pliny the Liberator
- Kevin Kelly
Host: Leo Laporte
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Forget the "AI is killing the planet" panic—this episode unpacks what's actually driving tech's power grab, the financial bubble no one wants to talk about, and why the big models are starting to look eerily similar.
CJ Trowbridge - cjtrowbridge.com - https://www.tiktok.com/@cjtrowbridge
- Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
- The new ChatGPT Images is here | OpenAI
- Last Week on My Mac: How good is AI at solv...
What happens when every major AI model gets jailbroken within days? This week, the world's most prolific AI red teamer lifts the curtain on how and why "safe" AI might be an impossible promise.
Pliny the Liberator | pliny.gg - discord.gg/basi
- ChatGPT Nears 900 Million Weekly Active Users But Gemini is Catching Up
- From Llamas to Avocados: Meta's shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion
- Google Tells Advertisers It'...
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...
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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