Podcast Episodes

How to Talk to Your Friend Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'

This week we start with Sam’s story discussing something that has come up a lot but no one has really answered: how do you speak to your friend or fa…

2 days, 8 hours ago

Understanding Roblox’s Grooming Problem

Cecilia D’Anstasio on Roblox efforts to protect children from pedophiles. 

Roblox is one of those games that is more popular than you can imagine, …

4 days, 11 hours ago

The Depravity Economy

This week we discuss our coverage of the U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran, specifically how Polymarket and Kalshi are letting people profit from deat…

1 week, 2 days ago

How to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin)

Joseph speaks to Cooper Quintin, a security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Quintin…

1 week, 4 days ago

Ring Is Just Getting Started

This week we start with Jason’s follow up to Ring launching its ‘Search Party’ feature. It turns out, according to a leaked email he got, the feature…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Privacy Under Pressure (With Harlo Holmes)

In this week’s interview, Sam is joined by Harlo Holmes. Harlo is the Chief Security Programs Officer at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She’s a med…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Inside an AI-Powered School

This week we start with Emanuel’s wild story about Alpha School, a very hyped AI-powered school. Emanuel got leaked documents and spoke to former emp…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

What It’s Like to Be a Data Labeler Training AI

I recently traveled to Kenya for a journalism and AI conference. While I was there, I really wanted to meet with Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary…

3 weeks, 4 days ago

Ring Is Back and Scarier Than Ever

We start this week with exciting news: we bought a Super Bowl ad! For… $2,550. We explain how. After the break, Jason tells us about Ring’s recently …

1 month ago

The Screen Time Panic Sets Parents Up to Fail

Patrick Klepek on the reality of parenting in the age of Roblox and YouTube.

I listened to hours of podcasts about how screen time affects kids of a…

1 month ago