Tech Culture Podcasts

Mostly Human with Laurie Segall goes to the source. In The Power and Responsibility of Sam Altman, Segall asks Altman whether he could enforce his red lines; he raises governments nationalising the AI labs. He concedes "you can imagine a world of that happening where no, we couldn't anymore," while calling it unlikely. He also says he believes a one-person billion-dollar company already exists, a claim he offers without details. The AI Therapist Will See You Now lets a chatbot therapist called Ash speak on air. The conversation then lingers on Ash misreading a time, an error that, someone observes, a human would never make. Promos for other network shows surround these April 2026 conversations. The Artificial Intelligence page goes further.

Stuck @Om is looser: Om Malik in conversation with people from technology and investing. Sridhar Ramaswamy, the former Google executive then taking on his old employer in search, recalls joking that "nothing good has ever happened to a Google SVP." In The GeoPolitical Implications of A.I. - a chat with Sean Gourley, Gourley forecasts AI replacing 30% of the workforce within a decade, while granting that others might argue 20 or 70. He also claims TikTok will be regarded as the greatest intelligence operation of the last century. Those are his positions, delivered with complete conviction, and they are best heard as an argument to test.

Other interviews centre the person. On Women of Silicon Valley: The Podcast, in Alex Levich: Leading with Courage, Levich recalls hiding that she was a mother and dressing in t-shirts and jeans to blend in. She describes growing into an empathetic leader by sharing more of herself. Thunder Nerds gives Chris Ferdinandi room to discuss ADHD at work while acknowledging his massive amounts of privilege. FUTUREPROOF. is brisker. In The Science of Disagreeing Better (ft. author Julia Minson), Minson explains naive realism, our belief that we simply see the world as it is. On Make Life Work, Adrian Lansdown describes home automation that alerts him when his children open their doors, though the driveway alert is mostly a cat.

MacStories Unwind suits beginners best, with episodes here running 18 to 23 minutes. In Frames, Finales, and Foreign Drama, one host explains why rebuilding his Apple Frames shortcut meant redoing 251 frames. Hue and Heist offers a plain fix for a patchy smart home: Hue smart plugs that double as Zigbee repeaters, the signal boosters Hue's system relies on. The Consumer Electronics page and the Software & Apps page continue the thread.

Banter has a price, though. User Error, a Linux-minded question show, asks what gives a desktop polish in Episode 88: Well, Actually. One host says freedom from bugs; another says consistency between applications. Q&A Quest is a gaming show; Episode 434: Rambling – Q&A Quest chews over a report that Krafton's CEO allegedly used ChatGPT to look for ways to avoid a $250 million payout. Both shows are freely profane. Players can head to the Gaming page.

Some listeners want the mechanism. The Hedge, hosted by Russ White, is a networking show that wanders usefully. In Hedge 302: Communications in Biological Systems, a biologist guest compares RNA to RAM and DNA to a hard drive, as the conversation tests networking models against cell biology. Hedge 300: Solving Injection Attacks treats prompt injection as an architectural problem; a prompt injection smuggles instructions into an AI system through the text it reads. That episode leads naturally to the Cybersecurity page. The vocabulary is specialist, and newcomers should expect to pause.

The Nonintuitive Bits sounds like engineers thinking out loud. In Gaming, Horror, AI: The Intersection of Virtual and Real, one host says that, "to the best of my knowledge," self-driving companies remove hardware from their cars daily because the data is too large to stream. The audio is rough and the topics hop, but the working detail is real. The Transportation Technology page follows that road further. Builders should try the Software Engineering page and the Engineering page.

Step back far enough and technology becomes a question about culture. Human Entities Podcast records public talks in Lisbon. In Human Entities 2024: Giorgio Gristina, Gristina examines how psychedelic trials measure "mystical experience." Asked whether such therapies work, he replies, from a scientific point of view: "real answer is we don't know yet." At 92 minutes, it rewards an unhurried evening.

Politically High-Tech blends politics and AI around an outspoken host. In 304- Democracy at Risk: Europe's Troubling Path With Michael Anderson, he breaks off to correct facts he had checked with AI: "AI is not that correct when it comes to Canada." The guest's sweeping views on globalist institutions are his own and arrive as argument.

Older feeds still reward digging. In Future Break Podcast's 45 - Electronic Voting - Exciting Pros vs Scary Cons, one host pitches blockchain voting with a code issued for every ballot. Peter, meanwhile, wonders aloud whether voting should take "a little effort." One host thinks they have finally found something to disagree on, and the friction is the point.