Podcast episodes about AI
AI is the most talked-about and worst-explained subject in podcasting right now. These are the episodes that explain rather than speculate.
Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think
From the archive: What does ChatGPT really know?
Lara Lewington
The Things We Know About AI So Far
AI isn’t as smart as you think -- but it could be | Jeff Dean
Chatbots, agents & LLMs: the future of AI where bigger isn’t always better | Kirk Bresniker
Does AI actually understand us? | Alona Fyshe
The real threat of AI - ethics, exploitation and the erosion of truth
What does ChatGPT really know?
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI
Ilya Sutskever: The Mastermind Behind GPT-4 and the Future of AI
‘Artificial General Intelligence’ Is Apparently Coming. What Is It?
LLMs in 2026: What’s Real, What’s Hype, and What’s Coming Next
AI Is an Umbrella Word (And That's the Problem)
Why Do People Who Think AI Could Kill Us All Still Work on AI?
#312 — The Trouble with AI
An AI Leader’s Human-Centered Approach To Artificial Intelligence
#332 — Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence?
Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Babbage: Fei-Fei Li on how to really think about the future of AI
How AI Will Save Humanity: Creator of The Last Invention Explains
Controlling AI
UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell: “ChatGPT is a wake-up call”
What to look for
Check the date on anything in this field — an AI episode from three years ago is describing a different technology. Recency matters more here than in any other topic.
Why episodes, not shows
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