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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Technology

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

When the Bubble Bursts (with Matt Scherer), 2026.06.01

July 07, 2026 5:00am 53 min

What should we do when the "AI" bubble pops? Emily and Alex are joined by researcher Matt Scherer, who recently published a report called "No Bailout for Big Tech Billionaires: Policies for when the AI bubble bursts." Th...

Beware the 20x Engineer, 2026.05.11

June 24, 2026 5:00am 53 min

"Sure, LLMs are bad at some things, but you can't deny that they're useful for programming!" Sound familiar? In this week's episode, Emily and Alex break down the key myths around AI-boosted productivity in tech. Plus, A...

Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole (with Dr. Nathalie Maréchal), 2026.05.04

June 09, 2026 5:00am 1:03

Senator Bernie Sanders recently hosted a panel on "The Existential Threat of AI," featuring Future of Life Institute co-founder Max Tegmark and other x-riskers. Dr. Nathalie Maréchal joins Emily and Alex to unpack this l...

LIVE: Anthropic Imagines a Very Special Boy, 2026.04.30

May 26, 2026 5:00am 1:01

Last month, we recorded our very first in-person podcast, live from Brooklyn! Alex and Emily debunk an especially soulless hype artifact about Anthropic's absurd claims of "moral education" for chatbots. Tune in to hear ...

Hotter Than (AI) Hell, 2026.04.20

May 13, 2026 5:00am 55 min

The weather’s getting warmer, so what better time to take a trip to the hottest place in the universe — Fresh AI Hell! Emily and Alex take a spin through more than 30 hype artifacts, with topics including medicine, data ...

There's No Ghost in the Machine (with Carmen Maria Machado), 2026.04.13

April 28, 2026 5:00am 53 min

Why are some writers and publishers so excited to automate their work? Author Carmen Maria Machado joins Alex and Emily to unpack what writers are missing when they hand off their work to chatbots, and the underlying iss...

Uber for Military Surveillance (with Niamh McIntyre), 2026.03.30

April 16, 2026 5:00am 53 min

The people who make automated translation possible are often low-paid gig workers. Usually, they don't even know who they're really working for — and it might be the US military. Reporter Niamh McIntyre joins Alex and Em...

Data Centers Go Nuclear (with Maia Woluchem and Dr. Livia Garofalo), 2026.03.09

March 31, 2026 5:00am 57 min

We knew that the energy demands of data centers were preventing dirty energy sources from being sunsetted.  Now hyperscalers are reaching even further, resurrecting Pennsylvania's infamous Three Mile Island. Emily and Al...

Data Centers in Space!? (with Dr. Adam Becker), 2026.03.02

March 17, 2026 5:00am 53 min

Data centers are overburdening the planet, so tech billionaires have a new scheme — put 'em in space! Astrophysicist Dr. Adam Becker joins Alex and Emily to launch this plan into the sun. We unpack all the reasons that t...

How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (with Naomi Klein), 2026.02.09

February 26, 2026 5:00am 52 min

AI boosters and the US military are engaged in a lethal love affair. Award-winning journalist Naomi Klein joins Emily and Alex to discuss how glitchy technology supports global imperialism — and vice versa. Plus, we expl...

A Bad Case of Hype-itis, 2026.02.02

February 12, 2026 5:00am 56 min

Move over Dr. Google, Dr. ChatGPT is here, and it's even worse as a medical intervention! Alex and Emily scrub in to slice up some harmful new nonsense in the world of "AI" for medicine. What's the cure for an expensive ...

Hell All the Way Down, 2022–2025

January 30, 2026 5:00am 40 min

This is a special episode, and it’s not like our usual livestream recordings. Instead, our producer Ozzy dug through the Fresh AI Hell archives to create a supercut of Alex's improvised transitions. She's made up dozens ...

Wrapping Up a Hellish 2025, 2025.12.15

January 13, 2026 5:00am 58 min

For our last recording of 2025, Emily and Alex take on a TIME article naming the "architects of AI" as their person of the year. We also look back at the year in AI nonsense, and share findings from our Fresh AI Hell Wra...

Defining AGI: Oops! All Eugenics, 2025.12.08

December 30, 2025 5:00am 55 min

There's a new definition of artificial general intelligence in town, and unsurprisingly... it's bad! Alex and Emily rip up the tissue-paper-thin premises behind this latest attempt to define "intelligence." Plus, we disc...

This is What Algo-cracy Looks Like, 2025.12.01

December 16, 2025 5:00am 59 min

Tech leaders are pushing the idea that automation can strengthen democracy — but as usual, their bold suggestions are based on castles made of sand. Alex and Emily tear down some flimsy arguments for AI governance, expos...

You Talked to Workers for This Labor Research... Right? (with Sophie Song), 2025.11.17

December 02, 2025 5:00am 53 min

Last month, Senate Democrats warned that "Automation Could Destroy Nearly 100 Million U.S Jobs in a Decade." Ironically, they used ChatGPT to come to that conclusion. DAIR Research Associate Sophie Song joins us to unpac...

Drag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27

November 18, 2025 5:00am 56 min

It's been six months since our last all-Hell episode! In honor of Halloween season, we take a long journey into the very scary Fresh AI Hell mines. Topics include terrifying uses of AI in education, scientific research, ...

Crunching the Numbers (with Decca Muldowney), 2025.10.20

October 30, 2025 5:00am 56 min

So-called AI tools are increasingly infiltrating newsrooms, particularly when it comes to data analysis. DAIR writer-in-residence Decca Muldowney joins us to discuss the need for journalists to distinguish between "AI" a...

Building Worlds Through Better Reading (with Reo Eveleth), 2025.09.29

October 14, 2025 5:00am 56 min

Powerful AI boosters claim to love science fiction novels, but why do they always seem to take the wrong lessons from them? Reporter and writer Reo Eveleth joins us to discuss the ways tech leaders misuse storytelling, a...

Three Years of Ridicule as Praxis, 2025.09.19

October 01, 2025 5:00am 55 min

It's Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000's third birthday! To celebrate, Emily and Alex respond to listener questions about the show, and reflect on the past and future of AI hype. Topics range from how to talk to your kids abo...

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