Episodi

  • We Change the World With Duct Tape and Hope
    Jul 28 2026
    "It would tell men: get a financial advisor, write your will, build an investment strategy. It would tell women: bulk shop for groceries… get married." That's ChatGPT on money. It's also the tamest thing Emily Janoch has caught AI doing. Emily runs evi...
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    48 min
  • Should Governments Ban Sex Robots?
    Jul 18 2026
    It's just Mara and Logan this week, and the main event is a question Logan expected to have a clean answer to: AI romantic companions — thumbs up or thumbs down? Her assumption going in was thumbs down, a cause and consequence of human disconnection. I...
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    55 min
  • Shadow Daddy ChatGPT
    Jul 8 2026
    Vanessa Chang ("V") calls herself an unlikely AI startup founder. She's the cofounder of Bernie, an SMS tool that helps senior citizens catch fraud and scams — and she built it without raising a round or hiring a dev team. We recorded live at Human Tec...
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    27 min
  • The Pope Has Entered the Chat
    Jun 26 2026
    This week it's just Mara and Logan, doing the thing we're proudest of: being wrong out loud. We open on a listener voicemail from Alexis Palmer calling out a judgy moment from a past episode, and Mara owns it. Underneath it: the AI productivity dream s...
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    59 min
  • Is AI Just Spicy Autocorrect?
    Jun 18 2026
    This week we sit down with Dr. Karina Alexanyan, Founding Executive Director of the Positive Technology Institute, co-architect of The Pledge, and a Gen X social scientist immune to the "learn AI now or get left behind" panic. We get into AI enfranchis...
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    32 min
  • Move Fast and Break Rights
    Jun 12 2026
    Digital civil rights lawyer Julie Wenah has spent her career inside the rooms where this stuff gets built: the Obama White House, Airbnb, where she led anti-discrimination work on the legal side, and Meta, where she supported the launch of the first-ge...
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    24 min
  • The Robots Never Tell You You're the Asshole
    May 27 2026
    A science journalist who's been on the AI beat since the 2010's walks into a podcast and says the quiet part loud: "I wish the general public did not get a hold of AI when they did. I wish it had stayed a more like research thing for at least five year...
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    52 min
  • Did Mom's Agent Text You?
    May 20 2026
    A former YC founder runs her household with a stack of Mac Minis and 5 OpenClaw agents while homeschooling her 4 kids under 5. Logan brings the artifact from Lenny's "How I AI" podcast. We get into the mental-load access pyramid. When "domestic AI infr...
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    52 min