Issues of Information

"A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools ... to the potential disruptions to work and industries ,... to the philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk."
View on YouTube: The AI Daily Brief

Are you struggling to keep up with the ever changing world of artificial intelligence? AI For Humans catches you up on all the AI news, tools & issues. Each week, Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell help explain exactly how this ground breaking technology will change our world. Plus, it's fun! Don't take our word for it. Fast Company says "AI For Humans may be the most entertaining way to learn about artificial intelligence".
View on YouTube: AI for Humans

A weekly podcast where host Nathan Labenz interviews the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years. The two aim to feature the “builders, researchers, and entrepreneurs who are shaping this moment. In upcoming episodes, Labenz and Torenberg hope to dive into the question of who will take the lead in AI between incumbents and startups, especially in the context of which businesses have competitive moats now and in the future. - Business Insider
View on YouTube: The Cognitive Revolution

Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas — and other problems. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology to reveal how they’re navigating an ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future.

Hosted by Craig Smith (correspondent NYT). The podcast aims to put incremental advances into a broader context and consider the global implications of the developing technology.
View on YouTube: Eye on AI

“Hard Fork” is a show about the future that’s already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose (New York Times) and Casey Newton (Platformer) explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
View on YouTube: Hard Fork

The internet is broken—but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re concerned about how surveillance, online advertising, and automated content moderation are hurting us online and offline, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward. EFF has been defending your rights online for over thirty years and is behind many of the biggest digital rights protections since the invention of the internet. Through curious conversations with some of the leading minds in law and technology, this podcast explores creative solutions to some of today’s biggest tech challenges. Hosted by EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and EFF Associate Director of Digital Strategy Jason Kelley, How to Fix the Internet will help you become deeply informed on vital technology issues as we work to build a better technological future together.

Weekly summaries and discussion about the most interesting developments in AI, deep learning, robotics, and more! Hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
View on YouTube: Last Week in AI

The latest machine learning, A.I., and data career topics from across both academia and industry are brought to you by host Dr. Jon Krohn on the Super Data Science Podcast.

Sure, some predictions about AI are just hype – but others suggest that everything we know is about to fundamentally change. Creative technologist Bilawal Sidhu talks with the world’s leading experts, artists, journalists, and more to explore the thrilling, sometimes terrifying, future ahead.

"In our podcast, Your Undivided Attention, co-hosts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin explore the unprecedented power of emerging technologies: how they fit into our lives, and how they fit into a humane future."

Your Undivided Attention has been covering the entire spectrum of issues of information since 2019.

Welcome to the podcast from 404 Media where Joseph, Sam, Emanuel, and Jason catch you up on the stories we published this week. 404 Media is a journalist-owned digital media company exploring the way technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world. We bring you unparalleled access to hidden worlds both online and IRL through investigative reporting, smart blogging, and breaking news. At 404 Media you’ll read, and hear, stories you can’t find anywhere else written by journalists who are leading experts on their beats. Subscribe to 404 Media at 404media.co to gain access to an ad-free version of this podcast, as well as a bonus podcast episodes. Subscribers are the bedrock of building a sustainable business for our journalism.

"The 80,000 Hours Podcast features unusually in-depth conversations about the world’s most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them.
We invite guests pursuing a wide range of career paths – from academics and activists to entrepreneurs and policymakers — to analyse the case for and against working on different issues and figure out which approaches are best for solving them."

The a16z Podcast discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world.

"Artificial intelligence is changing everything from art to enterprise IT, and a16z is watching all of it with a close eye. This podcast features discussions with leading AI engineers, founders, and experts, as well as our general partners, about where the technology and industry are heading." - - - a16z

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

“Bot Love brings us into communities of people who create deep bonds with their AI companions — and what this means for the rest of us. Hosts and reporters Anna Oakes and Diego Senior explore the nature of love, the fabric of human relationships, and the role that AI-driven chatbots — and the private companies that provide them — can play in people’s mental health.”

Episode 1: Looking for a Friend (25:30) - - - Episode 2: How Did We Get Here (25:58) - - - Episode 3: The Rock Star and His Muse (24:25) - - - Episode 4: The Bots and the Bees (30:07) - - - Episode 5: Maybe I’ve Got a Problem (28:56) - - - Episode 6: Behind the Curtain (27:18) - - - Episode 7: The Uncanny Valley (27:32)

"In a world with over 5 million podcasts, Dwarkesh Patel stands out as an unexpected trailblazer. At just 23 years old, he has caught the attention of influential figures such as Jeff Bezos, Noah Smith, Nat Friedman, and Tyler Cowen, who have all praised his interviews — the latter describing Patel as 'highly rated but still underrated!'" --- Shreeda Segan (Meridian)
View on YouTube: Dwarkesh

Foundering is an award-winning, serialized podcast from the journalists at Bloomberg Technology. Each season, Foundering brings you inside a different high-stakes drama from the technology industry, where its companies are wielding unprecedented capital and power. Tech companies featured include: WeWork, TikTok, Amazon, McAfee, OpenAI

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular, FLI focuses on risks from artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, nuclear weapons and climate change.
The Institute's work is made up of three main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions.

Are you a critical thinker ready to dive into AI? Welcome to The Generative AI Podcast: Super Prompt. Join me, Tony Wan, an ex Silicon Valley executive, as we 'unhype the hype' of AI via illuminating conversations with top engineers and entrepreneurs, complemented by in-depth solo episodes. Our goal? To make it almost unnecessary to send a cybernetic organism back in time to fix things. Tailored for the technically-minded and discerningly skeptical, our discussions cover Large Language Models (LLMs) and neural networks to machine learning, multi-modal systems, and autonomous vehicles. We also delve into the latest breakthroughs from leaders like OpenAI's chatGPT, Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, Meta's Llama, along with the startup ecosystem. Together, let’s stay ahead of generative AI, BEFORE it asks for your clothes… your boots…. and your motorcycle!

Big tech is transforming every aspect of our world. But how? And at what cost? This season of Land of the Giants – The Twitter Fantasy – will tell the story of Twitter (X) at a crucial moment for the platform, exactly one year after Elon Musk took over. Hosted by Vox senior correspondent Peter Kafka, the four-episode season will survey the company's outsize influence on politics and culture. How did Twitter become the Internet’s town square, for better and for worse? And where is it heading, now that Elon’s in charge?

Previous seasons include --- Season 6 | The Facebook/Meta Disruption --- Season 5 | The Apple Revolution --- Season 4 | Delivery Wars --- Season 3 | The Google Empire --- Season 2 | The Netflix Effect --- Season 4 | The Rise of Amazon

We cover Foundation Models changing every domain in Code Generation, Multimodality, AI Agents, GPU Infra and more, directly from the founders, builders, and thinkers involved in pushing the cutting edge. Striving to give you both the definitive take on the Current Thing down to the first introduction to the tech you'll be using in the next 3 months! We break news and exclusive interviews from OpenAI, tiny (George Hotz), Databricks/MosaicML (Jon Frankle), Modular (Chris Lattner), Answer.ai (Jeremy Howard), et al.
View on YouTube: Latent Space

Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

Twice a week, Kara Swisher and her executive producer Nayeema Raza invite a guest to be “On with Kara Swisher.” So why do newsmakers show up? “Smart people,” says Kara, “like difficult questions.”

Hosted by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger, each episode features an interview with an ambitious builder or deep thinker on a topic, from art to geopolitics and from healthcare to education.

Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more). The focus is on productive implementations and real-world scenarios that are accessible to everyone. If you want to keep up with the latest advances in AI, while keeping one foot in the real world, then this is the show for you!

Named a best podcast of 2023 by Vulture, Time, The Economist, & Vogue. No question too big, no question too small. On Search Engine, host PJ Vogt answers the kinds of questions you might ask the internet when you can't sleep. If you find the world bewildering, but also sometimes enjoy being bewildered by it, we're here for you.

Silicon Valley wants to shape our future, but why should we let it? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its big promises, and the people behind them. Tech Won’t Save Us challenges the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable. It’s not your usual tech podcast.

TechTank is a biweekly podcast from The Brookings Institution exploring ... artificial intelligence and racial bias in algorithms, to Big Tech, the future of work, and the digital divide

Series: Living Beyond Human Scale

Dr. Joy Buolamwini on Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

Lisa Gevelber on Technology and AI for Good

Dr. S. Craig Watkins on Why AI’s Potential to Combat or Scale Systemic Injustice Still Comes Down to Humans

Dr. William Brady on Social Media, Moral Outrage, and Polarization.

Esther Perel on New AI – Artificial Intimacy.

New York Times Journalists Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Michael H. Keller on "A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men"

Futurist Amy Webb on What's Coming (and What's Here)

Also from Unlocking Us:

Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley on The Digital Mindset, Part 1 of 2.
Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley on The Digital Mindset, Part 2 of 2.

Also from Dare to Lead:

Brené with Dr. Linda Hill on Leading With Purpose in the Digital Age

Named a best podcast of 2021 by Time, Vulture, Esquire and The Atlantic. Each Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters.


Episodes on Emerging Technology

• Your Mind is Being Fracked May 31, 2024 (1 hr 12 min)


• ‘Artificial Intelligence?’ No, Collective Intelligence. May 24, 2024 (51 min)


• What if Dario Amodei is Right About A.I.? April 12, 2024 (1 hr 32 min)


• Will A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It? (Nilay Patel) April 5, 2024 (1 hr 25 min)


• How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now? (Ethan Mollick) April 2, 2024 (1 hr 14 min)


• A.I. Could Solve Some of Humanity’s Hardest Problems. (Demis Hassabis) July 11, 2023 (1 hr 28 min)


• The Culture Creating A.I. Is Weird. Here’s Why That Matters (Erik Davie). April 12, 2024 (1 hr 5 min)


• Why A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the Economy (Roge Karma) April 7, 2024 (1 hr 3 min)


• The Most Amazing — and Dangerous — Technology in the World. (Chris Miller April 4, 2023 ( 58 min)