AI Skeptics: We Are The Egg (with Laura MacCleery)

We had an amazing conversation with Laura MacCleery for this week’s podcast, in which we discussed her fascinating and important essay, There Are No Machines of Loving Grace Without People.

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AI Skeptics: Aint Nobody Here ‘Cept Us Chickens (with Tom Adams)

We had a great time talking about all of the current happenings and goings-on in AI news on this week’s podcast:

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AI Skeptics: The Rich People Episode (with Tom Adams)

Our very own Tom Adams came to talk to us this week about rich people and medical advice from AI:

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AI Skeptics: The Psychedelic Computer Brain (With Andy Smart)

My buddy Andy Smart talked to us about his amazing books!

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AI Skeptics: The early internet (with Betty O’Neil)

I’ve been away for two weeks so I’m catching up on blogging about my podcasts! This one is from two weeks ago with my dear nerdy mom Betty O’Neil. She explains who really invented email!

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AI Skeptics: Section 230 (With Nancy Costello)

This week we were super lucky to have Michigan State Law Professor Nancy Costello on, explaining the past, present, and future of Section 230 and how it applies to social media platforms:

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AI Skeptics: Social Media is the New Tobacco (with Tom Adams)

April 6, 2026 Comments off

I forgot to post this episode last week! And that’s kinda dumb, because it was very timely a week ago, talking about the recent lawsuits that were won against the social media platforms:

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AI Skeptics: Should Judges Use AI? (with Shlomo Klapper)

March 25, 2026 Comments off

Hello friends! This week we talked to Shlomo Klapper, who runs Learned Hand and a great WaPo oped about AI and joined us to talk about helping judges with AI:

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AI Skeptics: The Kidd Lab Episode (with Celeste Kidd)

March 16, 2026 Comments off

Hello friends! Join us this week for a fascinating conversation on how we change our minds with UC Berkeley Psychology professor Celeste Kidd.

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AI Skeptics: We’re Not Moving to Mars (With Adam Becker)

March 9, 2026 Comments off

Hellos, friends! Listen to a very fun episode with Adam Becker discussing his new excellent book, More Everything Forever, with the AI Skeptics!

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AI Skeptics: AI in Philanthropy (with Katy Knight and Sherry Wong)

March 4, 2026 Comments off

This week’s podcast was an amazing conversation with Katy Knight, the Executive Director of the Siegal Family Endowment, and Sherry Wong, our good friend and OCEAN’s board director. We talked about AI in philanthropy, the past, present, and future. Take a listen and tell me what you think!

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AI Skeptics: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI (with John Warner)

February 24, 2026 Comments off

Hello friends! Jake and I had an amazing time reading a wonderful book by John Warner called More than Words and chatting with the author. Take a listen if you have time!

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AI Skeptics: Sex Ed for Ed Tech (with Kiri Soares)

Hello friends! Please find a moment to listen to this week’s AI Skeptics episode with my very good friend Kiri Soares, a (retiring!) principal of a 6-12 school in Brooklyn. She’s talking here about Ed Tech and AI, and how she frames it as a risk akin to sex or drugs. Fascinating!

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AI Skeptics: The Future of Work (With Kevin Frazier)

February 9, 2026 Comments off

Hello, friends! And good morning! If we’re all done wiping away our tears of joy at last night’s Bad Bunny performance (if not the football score), take a moment to listen to the newest AI Skeptics podcast. This week we talked with legal scholar and AI optimist Kevin Frazier about the future of work.

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AI Skeptics Podcast: The AI Bubble Episode (with Tom Adams)

Guys! This is a timely subject, we think! Listen to us predict the bursting of the AI bubble:

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AI Skeptics Podcast: All Buzzwords Mean Surveillance (with Sherry Wong)

Hello friends! I’m psyched (and somewhat late due to the snowstorm) to share this week’s podcast with our good friend Sherry Wong:

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AI Skeptics podcast: The Braverman Episode

I’m very psyched to announce the newest AI Skeptics podcast episode, the Braverman Episode, in which Jake and I interview my good friend Nicole Aschoff (I learned about her a long long time ago) about her and our favorite book.

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New AI Skeptics Podcast: We are all AI Skeptics now (except for our AI Overlords)

It’s Monday, so there’s a new AI Skeptics podcast, called We are all AI Skeptics now (except for our AI Overlords):

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New AI Skeptics Podcast: AI versus Artists and Educators

Here’s the newest AI Skeptics podcast, which comes out every Monday morning!

It’s with Becky Jaffe, and we talk about AI in her fields of art and education.

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I hope you enjoy it! Please comment below, or ask for new topics for the podcast!

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New podcast!! AI Skeptics

I’m very psyched to tell you all that I finally belong to the 2020’s, because I have started a podcast with my friend and colleague Jake Appel. It’s called the AI Skeptics, and it’s a new project of my non-profit OCEAN.

Each episode is between 30 and 35 minutes long, so it’s a really pretty short dive into the topics, but we hope it’s also fun and thought-provoking.

Here’s the art:

So far we have five episodes, with new ones coming early Monday mornings. Here are some links:

Episode 1: Hello world (with Celeste Kidd)

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Episode 2: Does anybody actually care about AI ethics? (with Aaron Abrams)

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Episode 3: Don’t trust AI!

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Episode 4: Wait, can Trump actually make AI regulation illegal? (with Tom Adams)

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Episode 5: Recession for the young and creepy AI toys

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I hope you all enjoy it! Please give comments and tell me what you think! I’m especially excited for this coming Monday’s episode.

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