Machine Gods
Hosted by NPR
About this Show
The official podcast of the singularity. News, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the AI future. New episodes on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Latest Episodes
Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Speak Out + We Look Inside Pandora’s Box
Fired OpenAI safety researchers Mikita Balesni and Tomek Korbak give us their first interview since their dramatic dismissal. They take us inside the company during METR’s investigation into the Hugging Face hack, explain why OpenAI’s rebuttal doesn’t add up, and describe how the fight over AI sa...
Bots Behaving Badly + Is AI Regulation On The Right Track + Kevin’s Sloppelganger
On the first episode of Machine Gods, Kevin Roose and Casey Newton ask: How worried should we be about rogue AI agents? After OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach, we discuss the first sighting of a rogue AI agent fleet linked to a Chinese AI company, Anthropic’s Claude sending a bogus homicide tip to Ph...
Welcome to Machine Gods
The official podcast of the singularity. News, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the AI future. New episodes twice weekly starting the week of October 19th, wherever you get your podcasts and at youtube.com/@machinegodspodSee pcm.adswizz.com for information about our colle...