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Why Would AI Want to Kill Us? With Nate Soares
September 11, 2026 · 44 minIt has been a huge week for AI safety. For those of us deeply concerned about this historically niche cause, it has felt a bit like one’s cult emo band has suddenly rocketed to the top of the charts. People suddenly care, a lot. And for…
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Steven Pinker on Revolutions, Rogue AI, and the Struggle for Reality
August 11, 2026 · 50 minDr. Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist at Harvard, a 2x Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of notable works like The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. Today we discuss his…
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Episode 5: What happens when all the good people leave social media?
January 30, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minWhat happens when the good people leave social media? Chloé Valdary walked away from 110,000 followers on social media. Not a quiet, lurking exit — but a hard delete.Chloé was a force of nature on Twitter. She built a huge following…
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Episode 4: Your kid will probably date an AI, and other terrifying thoughts – A conversation with the founder of Hinge
December 1, 2025 · 37 minWill people stop dating humans? Over a decade ago, the movie Her portrayed a world where by where large numbers of people opted out of dating, and instead turned to AI for their emotional needs. Justin McLeod is the founder and CEO of…
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Episode 3: Tristan Harris on how to safely build artificial minds
October 31, 2025 · 1 hr 4 minToday I’m releasing a conversation with Tristan Harris. Tristan is the founder of the Center for Humane Technology and one of the leading voices warning about how runaway AI might destabilize society. He starred in (and co-produced) the…
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Episode 2: Tim Urban of Wait But Why on Algorithmic Viruses, Cultural Antibodies, and the Art of Audience Building
October 3, 2025 · 1 hr 13 minSomething is wrong with society—we feel it before we name it. Is it the algorithms? The platforms? The culture we create in response to them? In this episode of Into the Machine, I sit down with Tim Urban—creator of Wait But Why, TED…
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Episode 1: Is AI Making Us Stupid? A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
September 18, 2025 · 1 hr 5 minToday I’m launching Into The Machine. My first episode is a conversation with my colleague, social psychologist and #1 NYT bestselling author Jonathan Haidt. Jon and I wrote a piece in The Atlantic called The Dark Psychology of Social…
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I'm launching a new show: Into The Machine
July 2, 2025 · 3 minWe are living in a strange moment. AI is everything, everywhere, all at once. Democracy is very much on the ropes. We are all confused about what comes next. Upstream of our troubles are a handful of algorithms that are legible to us for…
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Little by little, we’ve handed our choices to machine intelligences: social media feeds, chatbots, dating apps – each quietly shaping our thoughts and decisions. Author and technologist Tobias Rose-Stockwell examines how these tools are rewiring what it means to be human: what we gain, what we lose, and what we should fight to hold on to. tobias.substack.com