Dream Machines revs up

I’m on the road, so just posting a quick link: here is the first episode of KQED’s Dream Machines, the pod­cast minis­eries about AI hosted by me and Alexis Madrigal! Our guest is Annalee Newitz, speaking here as per­haps the world’s fore­most imag­iner of other minds, and also a great, iconic San Franciscan.

I am both a friend and superfan of Alexis, so the oppor­tu­nity to col­lab­o­rate with him on this project has been a delight. Our process: take the con­tent of our text threads out of the Mes­sages app, into the pod­cast studio. And I’m very proud of the fact that this is a KQED production — which is to say, public conversation, not industry capture. Truly independent.

I’ll have more to say about the project and its intentions, pos­sibly in my next newsletter. KQED will release sev­eral more episode over the course of this month — I’ll post links as they arrive.