Artificial Stupidity
Episodes
48. Is AI The Next Jamie Oliver?
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would you use AI for recipes? How do you feel about Frankenstein-ed recipes? What happens to food bloggers in the age of AI?Email us at ...
47. Talking To The Machine: Anthropic Interviewer
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropic is interviewing its users, what did it find out? How do people feel about working with AI? How do they see AI's role in their future?Ema...
46. Does AI Put The Human Back Into Humanities?
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does AI help us realise what is important in education? Is there value in the process of writing and thinking, even if AI can do it better? What d...
45. Would You Let Sam Altman Scan Your Retinas?
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you prove your human in a world of AI? Are retina scans the answer? What does Open AI's Sam Altman have to do with all of this?Email us at ...
44. Meet Your AI Matchmaker
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is AI transforming dating? Would you want to be matched by an AI? Can it solve the problems of modern dating?Email us at artific...
43. An AI Number One?
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is there skill involved in making AI music? Does the whole thing become a marketing exercise? What will happen to human musicians?Email us at ...
42. The AI Missionary
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when AI meets Christianity? Do we want AI to have Christian values? Does it give the Church more or less power?Email us at ar...
41. Are You Ready For OpenAI's SlopTok?
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is Sora 2 an endless reinforcement slop machine? What does it mean for OpenAI’s business model? Will we all become beetles mating with bottles?Email...
40. Will AI Kill Your Job? (Part 2)
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do the different AI models perform on real world tasks? Is your job at risk? How worried should we be?Email us at artificialstupiditypod@gma...
39. Has Open AI Killed LinkedIn? (Part 1)
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why has OpenAI launched a jobs board? Is it a sign that human jobs have a future? Or is it a clever PR play?Email us at artificialstupiditypod@gmai...
38. AI On Air
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do we want from podcast hosts? Can AI do it better? Would you like your Artificial Stupidity hosts to be replaced with AI? Email us at artificial...
37. Dr Deepfake
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are doctor deepfakes on the rise? Is this just the next iteration of "snake-oil"? What will happen to our trust in the medical professio...
36. Miss England Embraces AI Models
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why has Miss England introduced an AI round? What does it mean for the modelling industry? Is this the future?Email us at artificialstupiditypod@gmail...
35. Is AI Rotting Your Brain?
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are we outsourcing all our brain function to AI? Does it matter? How can you stay sharp and use LLMs?Sources and links:Your Brain On ChatGPT - MIT Stu...
34. AI Won’t Take Your Job, But Refusing To Use It Might
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How are companies adopting AI? Is 'not' hiring as bad as firing? Why are people sabotaging their company's attempt to introduce AI?Email u...
33. Do You Want To Live In An AI Simulation?
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has Genie 3 opened up a new world of AI simulation? Could simulated worlds be better than reality? Has our social media addiction already started to l...
32. Will AI Kill The Web?
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does AI spell the death of search and what can be done to save the web?Emails us at [email protected] and Links:AI is killing th...
31. The New Rules of AI Hiring - From Someone Building Them
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can we trust machines to shape our careers? What values should be built into AI tools that decide our professional futures? Could AI fix the bias in h...
30. Netflix Embraces AI
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Netflix has used AI for the first time in one of its shows, but what does that mean for the film industry? Will audiences embrace AI-generated VFX, or...
29. The AI Recruitment Takeover
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will your next job interview be with a bot? Did you write your CV with ChatGPT? Is the logical next step to get through the whole interview process wi...
28. The AI Band That Conquered Spotify
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does it matter if people are grooving to AI generated music? Was this an inevtible next step in a world where we can stream unlimited music? Should Sp...
27. How Cute Do You Want Your Robots?
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do we want humanoid robots to have personality? Are robots being cute-washed? Do we want Disney designing robots?Email us at artificialstupiditypod@gm...
26. How Dangerous is Superhuman Persuasion?
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can chatbots drive people to psychosis? Do we realise how powerful our language is? Can we trust AI companies to mitigate these risks?Emails us at art...
25. Can AI Solve The Productivity Paradox?
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will AI make us more productive? What can we learn about the age of AI from the internet revolution? Do we need to rethink the global economic structu...
24. Machines of Loving Grace Part 2 (feat. ChatGPT)
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does a utopic AI future look like? Noo is joined by the show's chief research assitant (ChatGPT) to continue the discussion on Dario Amodei&#...
23. AI in Warfare: Digital Dehumanisation
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What will AI do to war? How will biases in data affect decision making in autonomous weapon systems, policing and surveillance? Who is ultimately acco...
22. Has Google Completed AI?
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has Google won at AI with its new self improving AlphaEvolve agent? What does this model mean for human scientists and mathematicians? Is this AI agen...
21. Are AI Hallucinations Really a Problem?
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are AI chat bots making more things up? Is it getting worse?How worried should we be about lying AI?Hannah and Noo unpack all this and more on this we...
20. Get Ready to Meet Your AI Colleagues
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you ready to become the boss of 10 AI agents? That's what Microsoft predicts for the future of work. But are we all cut out to be bosses of AI...
19. AI Radio Presenters and Identity Theft
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you prove you're human in a world flooded with AI? Would you sell the rights to your identity? Would you listen to this podcast if it's...
18. AI in Schools: Tutor or Cheater?
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do we need to learn in an world of AI? Will everyone be cheating? How could AI be a better teacher?Email us at [email protected]...
17. What's in an AI Brain?
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What goes on inside the mind of an AI? Can it really be 'thinking'?We have an email now! Contact us at [email protected] an...
16. Will AI Kill Content Creation?
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is OpenAI's new 4o image generator all it's cracked up to be? Will it get rid of the content industries? What happens when everyone can make g...
15. AI, Porn and Lonely Men
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Noo and Hannah discuss pornography and its intersection with AI. Will AI, as Scott Galloway suggests, cause a rise in porn-addicted, lonely, isolated ...
14. Can AI Write Great Literature?
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Hannah and Noo discuss a short story written by an unreleased OpenAI model. Does this show that AI can truly be creative and what does it m...
13. Machines of Loving Grace
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Noo and Hannah discuss the first half of Dario Amodei's essay Machines of Loving Grace which imagines a utopic AI future. The conversat...
12. Love at First Prompt
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Hannah and Noo discuss the prospect of falling in love with an AI chat bot. The pros, the cons, and whether we should feel any differently ...
11. Say Hello to Your New Robot Butler
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Noo and Hannah discuss some new releases in the world of AI humanoid robots. Will they mean we can all exist in a housework-free utopia or will there ...
10. Would You Like a Slice of Compute?
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Hannah and Noo discuss Sam Altman's latest blog post and the possibility of a future economy trading in slices of compute. Then they circle ...
9. Does Pharrell Williams Use AI to Write Songs?
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Noo and Hannah discuss the AI headlines of the week - Elon Musk's bid to buy Open AI, the AI Summit in Paris and the world of AI music.Sources and...
8. First Shots Fired in the AI Arms Race
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah and Noo discuss the fallout following the release of DeepSeek. Safety concerns and new releases from OpenAI mark the real beginning of the AI a...
7. Why You're Wrong About DeepSeek
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Noo and Hannah talk about a massive cash injection for AI from the US government and the new Chinese chatbot that has shocked the world.
6. Could AI Stop You Winning an Oscar?
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah and Noo talk about the controversy over The Brutalist's use of AI and discuss the new AI apps developed by the UK government.
5. The UK Government's Plan to Stop AI Stealing Your Job
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Hannah and Noo address predictions that AI agents will join the workforce in 2025. Then they dive into the UK government's brand new action...
4. Will AI Accounts Flood Your Social Media and A Brief History of Open AI
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Noo and Hannah discuss the controversy over Meta’s AI characters and whether these bots are about to take over social media. They also dive into Ope...
3. The Future of AI in Medicine and Have We Reached AGI?
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah and Noo discuss new AI tools to fight gobal health epidemics like diabetes and tuberculosis. They also discuss OpenAI's recently released o3 mo...
2. Lying Chatbots, Copyright Warnings and Blackouts
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Noo and Hannah explore OpenAI's o1 model, which has been caught lying. They examine the UK government's proposal to rewrite copyright laws ...
1. Genie 2, Spotify Wrapped and United Healthcare
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode, Hannah and Noo discuss the release of DeepMind's Genie 2 model and the implications for the future of gaming and AI agents. Hann...