Brooke Gladstone

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1,463 appearances 16 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

Brooke Gladstone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 16 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 6.

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On the Media · F@#$ the AI Overlords · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

It's all coming up after this. voice-verified

This is On The Media. voice-verified

Michael Lowinger's out this week. voice-verified

I'm Brooke Gladstone. voice-verified

That's Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and one of his industry's most transcendent dreamweavers. voice-verified

Last Saturday on the Relentless podcast, speaking just a few days after his company disclosed that during an internal cybersecurity evaluation, two of its AI models had... voice-verified

like an octopus sneaking out of its tank, escaped their sealed testing environment, reached the open sea of the internet, and broke into the infrastructure of another AI developer platform. voice-verified

The implications of that little news story seem more nightmarish than dreamy, but Altman's dreams are of the singularity, which in his business means the moment when artificial intelligence, machine intelligence, surpasses human intelligence. voice-verified

Last Saturday, Altman went on to say, I've been waiting for this my whole life and I think it's going to be incredible, hugely positive, awesome for the world. voice-verified

But if that's coming, if that's here, then what happens next? voice-verified

Workers across all sectors are voice-verified

are having nightmares based on Altman's dream. voice-verified

A lot of people wonder, what happens if AI's dominance in the news and in our fantasies is not merely a bubble? voice-verified

Will we all lose our jobs? voice-verified

And what if it is a bubble? voice-verified

Will we all lose our pensions? voice-verified

It seems like a kind of lose-lose situation for regular people. voice-verified

Nevertheless, it consumes vast amounts of our bandwidth because of AI's elephantine presence in the financial markets, in the news, and in how we view our future. voice-verified

Trump loves a winner, even if it's a mirage born of Altman's dreams. voice-verified

Now Cory Doctorow knows a dream when he sees one. voice-verified

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