Life with Machines
Hosted by Baratunde Thurston and Baratunde and Elizabeth Stewart · Baratunde Thurston
4.9from 34 ratings
- 50
- Episodes
- 47
- Transcribed
- 34
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 5M
- YouTube views
About Life with Machines
Life With Machines explores the human side of the A.I. revolution – the good, the bad, and the weird – and asks, “How can these machines help us become more human?” In this video podcast, host Baratunde Thurston helps us understand our rapidly emerging future, and encourages us to shape it and laugh at the absurdity. Baratunde demystifies A.I. and makes it personal with a wide range of guests: entrepreneurs, artists, policymakers, technologists, business leaders, creators, educators, and scientists. Maybe even an A.I. or two. Everyone should have a say in where technologies like A.I. take us, not just a handful of people in California who think nitro cold brew on tap should be a human right. Join us in candid conversations and fun experiments, as we imagine and co-create our life, with machines.
- Publisher
- Baratunde Thurston
- Category
- education · news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Sept 2024
- Latest episode
- 6 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
47 of 50 episodes have a transcript.
6 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
AI's Water Problem Isn't Where You Think
26 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
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11 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Steer the Future or Get Steamrolled (cross-post)
Inside a recent episode
AI's Water Problem Isn't Where You Think
Published 6 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And we now have a better understanding. I mean, when I started my career 20 years ago, the conventional wisdom is like, if we do the best possible job, a thousand years from now, the planet might go back to normal. Yeah. Yeah. That's not very motivating. No, no. Most of us won't be around in a thousand years. Maybe Peter Thiel, but the rest of us don't have access to that kind of nanotechnology. But, you know, what is that going to do for your children? What is that going to do for your grandchildren? And we now know, I mean, look, many of the models say they would be out 20 years for about half the pollution to fall out of the atmosphere. […]
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- Gavin McCormick
- Will Lucas
- Neha Shukla
- Tazin Khan
- Charlotte Dungan
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- YouTube views
- 4,664,564
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 24 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 10 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100
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- Quality
- 72
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts Life with Machines?
Baratunde Thurston and Baratunde and Elizabeth Stewart host the show. Published by Baratunde Thurston.
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