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The Rip Current — 101 episodes
Sam Altman Under Oath
Sam Altman's Own Hero Calls Him a Liar. Now He Faces a Jury.
Jake on CNN: The White House Reverses Course on A.I. Regulation
Musk vs Altman: What I've Seen So Far
Juicy A.I. Billionaire Drama Exposed
Nine People in Oakland Hold More Power Over A.I. Than Congress
Why U.S. Spies Are Using Banned A.I.
Why Tim Cook's Apple Era Is Over — And What Comes Next
Why Are Social Media's Effects So Hard to Study? Because Only the Companies Can Truly Do It.
How America Built an AI Kill Chain (with Katrina Manson)
Mythos Latest: The AI That Escaped Its Own Cage
An A.I. Doomsday Machine...and the Private Club That Has It
From Popular Science to Substack: Baratunde & Jacob Ward Compare Notes
Tech Companies Already Know When You've Had Enough
Everything I Said on Six TV Networks Yesterday
The Verdict That Could End Social Media as We Know It (with Nita Farahany)
The Era of Unaccountable Design Is Over
🚨 BREAKING: Meta just lost.
Is America Ready for "Behavioral Harm"?
The AI Industry Got What It Wanted Today...Again
Hollywood Is Pulling Up the Drawbridge
The Poison Is Back.
DHS Has a Surveillance Shopping List. You're On It.
Did Meta Connect Children to Predators? (with A.G. Raúl Torrez)
The Attack on Those Who Say No to Tech
A Silicon Valley Congressman Faces the Shifting Sands of AI
Gaza was the Beta Test. Iran is the Product Launch.
I Went on CNN Tonight to Talk About the Anthropic Ban
What Anthropic Doesn't Want the Pentagon to Have
State of the Union: Tech Anxiety Edition
Jake on CNN: The Pentagon Just Told the World's Most Cautious AI Company to Stop Being Cautious
Anthropic's CEO Built an AI With Ethics. The Pentagon Just Told Him to Drop Them.
Big Tech Accountability is Having a Big February
Moral Panic or Public Health Crisis? A Real Debate About Kids and Screens
Zuckerberg Was Served at the Courthouse Door. Here's What That Means.
Zuckerberg Under Oath (and What I Couldn't Say on TV)
The Social Media Addiction Trial Explained
Social Media's Big Tobacco Moment
Why ICE Agents Wear Masks: Inside the Billion-Dollar Surveillance System Targeting Us All
AI Is Getting People Fired — Even Though It’s Not Ready
Big Tech Knew It Was Harming Kids — Newly Unsealed Documents Prove It
We're a Match Flare in an Infinite Darkness — And We're Wasting It Fighting Each Other
Wells Fargo Is Firing Thousands of Workers Because of AI — And Bank Tellers Are Unionizing for the First Time Ever
Davos Is Just a High School Reunion — And AI Companies are the Cool Kids
Robots Are Coming for Factory Jobs — and No One Voted on It
Humans are Tribal and Judgy, and AI is Exploiting It (with Yarrow Dunham)
Every Oil Empire Thinks This Time Will Be Different.
Why So Many People Hate AI — and Why 2026 Is the Breaking Point
Did Weed Just Escape the Culture War?
AI Has Us Lying to One Another (and It's Changing How We Think)
AI Data Centers Are Draining Our Resources — and Making Strange Political Allies
Jake on PBS: Is This the End of A.I. Laws?
AI Isn’t Just a Money Risk Anymore — It’s Bigger than That
Trump's Executive Order Gives the AI Industry What It Wants.
AI Is Even More Biased Than We Are: Mahzarin Banaji on the Disturbing Truth Behind LLMs
Australia Just Rebooted Childhood — And the World Is Watching
AI is Creating a ‘Hive Mind' — Scientists Just Proved It
Jake on CBS News: OpenAI's Fight to "Make It Irresistible"
OpenAI Declares "Code Red" — And Takes Aim at Your Brain
Big Tech Got Its Government Back
AI Distortion Is Here — And It’s Already Warping Us All
Insurers Are Backing Away From A.I.—and That Should Scare You More Than Any Sci-Fi Predictions
The Executive Order That Would End AI Regulation in America
When AI Stops Being About Jobs — and Starts Being About Us
The Great AI Overbuild: From Tulsa’s Empty Highways to Britain’s Railway Mania to Data Centers in Space
Mapping the AI Power Shift: Buffett’s Big Bet, Thiel’s Exit, Meta’s Language Play, and a Drunk Robot in Moscow
Is America Ready to Fight Big Tech? (with Sacha Haworth)
Can Journalism Survive? (With UC Berkeley Journalism Dean Michael Bolden)
BONUS EPISODE: Urgent Futures Podcast
AI Addiction is Coming (with Zachary Gidwitz)
Brazil is an Alternate Universe (with Cristina Tardaguila)
Is AI Pessimism Feeding the Powerful? (with Rumman Chowdhury)
Bonus Episode: Jake on Andrew Keen's Podcast
Can AI Be Ethical? (with Olivia Gambelin)
The War Over TikTok (with Emily Baker-White)
What is AI Psychosis? (with Morten Rand-Hendricksen)
T-Minus $67 Million per Launch (with David Ariosto)
What GPT-5 Really Represents
99% of Crypto is a Scam (with Molly White)
How to Be Two-Marshmallow Humans (with Aza Raskin)
How to Defeat Loneliness (with David Jay)
The Life and Death of Booze (with Adam Rogers)
The Trump Moment is Global (with Bart Bonikowski)
An Expert in Violence Explains the Path to Peace (with Lord John Alderdice)
The Battle for Your Brain (with Nita Farahany)
An All-American Surveillance System Is Coming
Why Tech People Hate Us Journalists (with Paris Martineau)
How to Kill Corruption With Technology (with President of Estonia Toomas Ilves)
Ep 08: Addiction in America (with Keith Humphreys)
Ep 07: Legitimacy is the Best You Can Hope For (with John Patty and Elizabeth Penn)
Ep 06: Renee DiResta on Our Invisible Rulers and Building a Credibility Counterculture
EP 05: Lawrence Lessig on Corruption, AI, and the Need to Rethink Everything
Ep 04: Kat Tenbarge on Misinformation, Media, and How Influencers Work You
Bonus Episode: The Tariff Hand Grenade
Ep 03: Jennifer Freyd on DARVO and the Language of Betrayal
Ep 02: Historian Andrew Ward on Slavery and DEI
The Rip Current Ep 01: Catherine Bracy on Venture Capital and How It's Eating the Economy
Unboxing Fascism
Breakdown: The Scams Headed Your Way
The Rip Current Weekly Debrief // Casual destruction and Chinese AI
Lessons from 10 Years of Wildfires