Artificial Intelligence
Episodes whose main subject is AI itself: building with, training, evaluating, or debating AI systems. AI used only as a tool for another topic goes to that topic.
#1407: Can One Million LLMs Predict the Next Global Crisis?
Discover how an undergraduate student built a viral simulation of one million AI agents to predict social behavior and policy outcomes.
#1406: Giving AI a Brain: The Power of Knowledge Graphs
Move beyond "stochastic parrots" with Knowledge Graphs. Discover how structured data is giving AI the logical backbone it needs to reason.
#1387: Whose Finger Is on the AI Trigger?
Explore how the US-Israel military alliance has evolved from shipping tanks to sharing real-time AI data and cloud-integrated missile defense.
#1379: The End of Proof: AI and the New Plausible Deniability
In a world of synthetic attribution and automated proxies, the truth is becoming a relic of the past. Explore the new era of deniable statecraft.
#1365: The End of the Slide Deck: Consulting in the Age of AI
Explore the history of management consulting and how AI is dismantling the traditional labor pyramid of the Big Four and strategy firms.
#1364: The Strategic Slowdown: Avoiding the FOMO Architecture Trap
Learn how "Integration Scouts" help CTOs cut through AI marketing hype to build modular, future-proof enterprise architectures.
#1351: The GDP Mirage: Mapping Real Wealth and Purchasing Power
GDP is a vanity metric. Discover why real income and purchasing power are the true measures of prosperity in the modern global economy.
#1330: From Isolation to Ambient Sound
Discover how bone conduction bypasses the ear canal to deliver sound through the skull, blending digital audio with the physical world.
#1329: High-Stakes Hubs vs. Remote Runways: A Pilot's Mastery
Exploring the cognitive load of busy hubs versus the technical skill required to land on the short, rocky runways of the Greek islands.
#1328: Silicon Sigils: Why We Treat AI Like an Occult Force
Is AI a tool or a digital demon? Explore why technical illiteracy is turning neural networks into a modern-day moral panic.
#1322: When AI Stops Seeing and Starts Reasoning
Explore how AI evolved from simple pixel labeling to understanding intent and context through Vision-Language Models and agentic frameworks.
#1321: The New Face of Cyberbullying: AI Botnets & Semantic Mimicry
"Don't feed the trolls" is dead. Discover how AI botnets use semantic mimicry to weaponize psychology and hijack social media algorithms.
#1318: The Analog Hole: Why Your Screen is a Security Leak
Your firewall can’t stop a smartphone camera. Discover why the "analog hole" is the ultimate blind spot in modern enterprise security.
#1316: The Gig Economy Spy: Crowdsourcing Modern Espionage
Forget James Bond. Today’s spies are ordinary citizens earning crypto for smartphone photos. Discover how the IRGC is crowdsourcing intelligence.
#1315: The Sloth Strategy: Why Slow Living is a Survival Skill
In a world obsessed with optimization, slowing down isn't just a luxury—it’s a biological necessity for our mental and physical survival.
#1311: Beyond the Reel: Mastering Long-Form Documentary
Move beyond 60-second edits. Learn how to manage the technical debt and narrative weight of creating your first feature-length documentary.
#1309: The Death of Fiction: Why We Can’t Just Enjoy a Story
Is your brain too logical for movies? Explore why "non-fiction bias" makes it harder to enjoy stories and why fiction still matters.
#1308: The AI Attribution Paradox: Normalizing the Ghostwriter
Why do 70% of developers hide their AI use? Explore the "competence stigma" and the emerging rules for radical transparency in an AI-driven world.
#1307: Digital Protocols: Why Modern Manners Feel Like Software
Manners aren't disappearing—they're becoming context-aware. Learn why a "Hey" might be more polite than a "Dear Sir" in the digital age.
#1305: The Victorian Flex: A Masterclass in Social Engineering
Discover how 19th-century dinner rules were used to exclude outsiders and how to use these ancient "bluffs" to signal social pedigree today.