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The Philosopher Teaching AI to Be Good
Episode 222
AI company Anthropic has a new, values-oriented “constitution” that they’re feeding their chatbot, Claude. Amanda Askell, the company’s in-house phi…
2 months, 1 week ago
Can Truth Survive the Trump Era?
Episode 221
Charlie Warzel, Atlantic staff writer and host of the "Galaxy Brain" podcast, joins Offline to break down the news of the week: how Elon Musk's negl…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Adam Friedland Just Wants to Understand
Episode 220
Adam Friedland sits down with Jon to make sense of his unlikely rise from the self deprecating (and self defecating) cohost of Cum Town to…a public …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Fight to Liberate Minnesota (and America)
Episode 219
Minneapolis isn’t just protesting ICE—it’s fully organizing against it. Lydia Polgreen, journalist and opinion columnist at The New York Times, joins…
3 months ago
The Enshittification of the Internet (with Cory Doctorow)
Episode 218
Journalist, blogger, and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow stops by the studio to talk to Jon about “enshittification,” his theory that explains h…
3 months, 1 week ago
ICE Killings and the Death of Shared Reality
Episode 217
Does misinformation even matter if no one can agree on a shared reality? The New Yorker’s Jay Caspian Kang joins Offline to explain how the ICE shoot…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
What Comes After Trump?
Episode 216
What does 21st century authoritarianism look like in the United States? Author and Atlantic staff writer George Packer joins Offline to talk about Am…
4 months ago
The Movement to Protect Kids from Big Tech
Episode 215
Julie Scelfo, founder of Mothers Against Media Addiction, sits down with Jon to talk about the impacts AI and social media are having on our kids…and…
4 months, 1 week ago
A Techno-Optimist’s Case for AI
Episode 214
Economist and techno-optimist Noah Smith, author of the Noahpinion Substack, joins Offline to debate the promise of artificial intelligence, the bene…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Max Returns! AI Bubbles, Info Silos, and 67
Episode 213
What happens when the AI bubble bursts, how did Meta get away with it yet again, and…is Elon “Bubba”? Max Fisher pays Offline a visit to take stock o…
4 months, 3 weeks ago