All Episodes
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 — 79 episodes
Hotter Than (AI) Hell, 2026.04.20
There's No Ghost in the Machine (with Carmen Maria Machado), 2026.04.13
Uber for Military Surveillance (with Niamh McIntyre), 2026.03.30
Data Centers Go Nuclear (with Maia Woluchem and Dr. Livia Garofalo), 2026.03.09
Data Centers in Space!? (with Dr. Adam Becker), 2026.03.02
How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (with Naomi Klein), 2026.02.09
A Bad Case of Hype-itis, 2026.02.02
Hell All the Way Down, 2022–2025
Wrapping Up a Hellish 2025, 2025.12.15
Defining AGI: Oops! All Eugenics, 2025.12.08
This is What Algo-cracy Looks Like, 2025.12.01
You Talked to Workers for This Labor Research... Right? (with Sophie Song), 2025.11.17
Drag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27
Crunching the Numbers (with Decca Muldowney), 2025.10.20
Building Worlds Through Better Reading (with Reo Eveleth), 2025.09.29
Three Years of Ridicule as Praxis, 2025.09.19
The Robo-Therapist Will See You Now (with Maggie Harrison Dupré), 2025.08.18
Winning the Race to Hell (with Sarah Myers West and Kate Brennan), 2025.08.04
Vibe Coding: Four Security Nightmares in a Trenchcoat (with Susanna Cox), 2025.07.21
Et Tu, American Federation of Teachers? (with Charles Logan), 2025.07.14
Why "AI" Is a Con: Our Book Launch! (with Vauhini Vara), 2025.05.08
"Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud", 2025.05.26
The "AI"-Enabled Immigration Panopticon (with Petra Molnar), 2025.05.05
AGI: "Imminent", "Inevitable", and Inane, 2025.04.21
AI Hell in a Handbasket, 2025.04.14
"AI" Agents, A Single Point of Failure (with Margaret Mitchell), 2025.03.31
Linguists Versus 'AI' Speech Analysis (with Nicole Holliday), 2025.03.17
The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency', 2025.03.03
The War on Knowledge (with Raina Bloom), 2025.02.24
Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27
The UK's Misplaced Enthusiasm (with Gina Neff), 2025.01.20
Sam Altman's Fever Dream, 2025.01.13
Episode 47: Hell is Other People's AI Hype, December 9 2024
Episode 46: AGI Funny Business (Model), with Brian Merchant, December 2 2024
Episode 45: Billionaires, Influencers, and Ed Tech (feat. Adrienne Williams), November 18 2024
Episode 44: OpenAI's Ridiculous 'Reasoning', October 28 2024
Episode 43: AI Companies Gamble with Everyone's Planet (feat. Paris Marx), October 21 2024
Episode 42: Stop Trying to Make 'AI Scientist' Happen, September 30 2024
Episode 41: Sweating into AI Fall, September 9 2024
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 40: Elders Need Care, Not 'AI' Surveillance (feat. Clara Berridge), August 19 2024
Episode 39: Newsrooms Pivot to Bullshit (feat. Sam Cole), Aug 5 2024
Episode 38: Deflating Zoom's 'Digital Twin,' July 29 2024
Episode 37: Chatbots Aren't Nurses (feat. Michelle Mahon), July 22 2024
Episode 36: About That 'Dangerous Capabilities' Fanfiction (feat. Ali Alkhatib), June 24 2024
Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire (feat. Safiya Noble), June 10 2024
Episode 34: Senate Dot Roadmap Dot Final Dot No Really Dot Docx, June 3 2024
Episode 33: Much Ado About 'AI' 'Deception', May 20 2024
Episode 32: A Flood of AI Hell, April 29 2024
Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri), April 15 2024
Episode 30: Marc's Miserable Manifesto, April 1 2024
Episode 29: How LLMs Are Breaking the News (feat. Karen Hao), March 25 2024
Episode 28: LLMs Are Not Human Subjects, March 4 2024
Episode 27: Asimov's Laws vs. 'AI' Death-Making (w/ Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders), February 19 2024
Episode 26: Universities Anxiously Buy in to the Hype (feat. Chris Gilliard), February 5 2024
Episode 25: An LLM Says LLMs Can Do Your Job, January 22 2024
Episode 24: AI Won't Solve Structural Inequality (feat. Kerry McInerney & Eleanor Drage), January 8 2024
Episode 23: AI Hell Freezes Over, December 22 2023
Episode 22: Congressional 'AI' Hearings Say More about Lawmakers (feat. Justin Hendrix), December 18 2023
Episode 21: The True Meaning of 'Open Source' (feat. Sarah West and Andreas Liesenfeld), November 20 2023
Episode 20: Let's Do the Time Warp! (to the "Founding" of "Artificial Intelligence"), November 6 2023
Episode 19: The Murky Climate and Environmental Impact of Large Language Models, November 6 2023
Episode 18: Rumors of Artificial General Intelligence Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, October 23 2023
Episode 17: Back to School with AI Hype in Education (feat. Haley Lepp), September 22 2023
Episode 16: Med-PaLM or Facepalm? A Second Opinion On LLMs In Healthcare (feat. Roxana Daneshjou), August 28, 2023
Episode 15: The White House And Big Tech Dance The Self-Regulation Tango, August 11 2023
Episode 14: Henry Kissinger, Machines of War, and the Age of Military AI Hype (feat. Lucy Suchman), July 21 2023
Episode 13: Beware The Robo-Therapist (feat. Hannah Zeavin), June 8 2023
Episode 12: It's All Hell, May 5 2023
Episode 11: A GPT-4 Fanfiction Novella, April 7 2023
Episode 10: Don't Be A Lawyer, ChatGPT. March 3, 2023
Episode 9: Call the AI Quack Doctor, February 17, 2023
Episode 8: The ChatGPT Awakens, January 20, 2023
Episode 7: There Are Now 15 Competing Evaluation Metrics (ft. Dr. Jeremy Kahn). December 12, 2022
Episode 6: Stochastic Parrot Galactica, November 23, 2022
Episode 5: Sam Bankman-Fried's Future Fund, November 9 2022
Episode 4: Is AI Art Actually 'Art'? October 26, 2022
Episode 3: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 3, September 23, 2022
Episode 2: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 2, September 6, 2022
Episode 1: "Can Machines Learn To Behave?" Part 1, August 31, 2022