Ian Sample

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1,877 appearances 26 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

Ian Sample’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Science Weekly · Live episode: how AI is reshaping our minds · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

Hi everyone. voice-verified

Thanks for coming. voice-verified

Um seriously, a really warm welcome to this special live recording of Science Weekly, which we're doing in collaboration with the Guardians chart topping investigative podcast series Black Box, which launched its brilliant second series today. voice-verified

We're going to be discussing what our relationship with chatbots is doing to our minds. voice-verified

But first of all, I should introduce who everybody is. voice-verified

I'm Ian Sample, I'm the science editor on The Guardian and host of one of the hosts of Science Weekly podcast. voice-verified

Next to me is my Science Weekly co host and producer Maddy Finley. voice-verified

Maddy also writes children's science books. voice-verified

And during her time on Science Weekly, she's covered AI from all all kinds of different angles. voice-verified

And of course, we have voice-verified

Michael Safi. voice-verified

Michael is the presenter of Black Box, the first season of which went to number one in the UK news charts and was an Apple podcast best of 2024. voice-verified

He's also the former host of Today in Focus, the Guardians Award-winning daily news podcast. voice-verified

Mike, obviously the the first episode of Black Box chatbots came out today. voice-verified

Um well done on getting through that. voice-verified

Um look very broadly the first series explored all these many ways humans come up against AI for for good or bad, but the focus of this second series is chatbots. voice-verified

Why did you focus on chatbots? voice-verified

What was it that sort of piqued your interest there? voice-verified

I mean, m Maddie, what Michael's talking about in some of those extreme cases is what's been called AI psychosis, right? voice-verified

And we did voice-verified

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