Language, Landscapes and Robot Minds with Annalee Newitz
Language, Landscapes and Robot Minds with Annalee Newitz
Whether you’re curious, cautious or ambivalent about AI, it is already reshaping our world, and the stakes are high. Dream Machines is a podcast series hosted by two friends, journalist Alexis Madrigal and author Robin Sloan, who have spent their lives and careers thinking deeply about technology, humanity, and how the two intertwine.
Refusing easy distinctions like good vs. bad or dystopia vs. utopia, the podcast aims to inform listeners about the technology and its cultural, political, and economic impacts without falling into sensationalism or doom and gloom. The hosts use intellectual rigor, technical knowledge and most of all, deep curiosity to illuminate the breakthroughs and challenges of the AI age while bringing cultural and historical nuance, a healthy dose of skepticism, and true independence from industry hype.
Refusing easy distinctions like good vs. bad or dystopia vs. utopia, the podcast aims to inform listeners about the technology and its cultural, political, and economic impacts without falling into sensationalism or doom and gloom. The hosts use intellectual rigor, technical knowledge and most of all, deep curiosity to illuminate the breakthroughs and challenges of the AI age while bringing cultural and historical nuance, a healthy dose of skepticism, and true independence from industry hype.
Dream Machines Team
Alexis Madrigal
Co-Host
Alexis Madrigal is the co-host of KQED’s Forum. He's the author of The Pacific Circuit, and former senior editor at The Atlantic, covering technology. He's been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Information School and the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society.
Robin Sloan
Co-Host
Robin Sloan is the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, a New York Times Best Seller, along with the novels Sourdough and Moonbound. At the Murray Street Media Lab in Berkeley, he was an early investigator of the creative applications of AI language models.
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