WTFAI is a biweekly podcast from the Center for Digital Thriving about how we're evolving with AI — fuzzy, weird, messy feelings included. We sit with them, name them, and sometimes invent the words that were missing. At the heart of the show is a simple idea, as hosts Dan Be Kim and Beck Tench describe it: “Lots of people are thinking about AI. We want to talk about how it makes you feel.”
WTFAI EP004: "Start with the Teen, Not the Tech" ft. Carrie James & Emily Weinstein
In this episode of WTFAI, Beck and Dan Be sit down with the dynamic duo behind the Center for Digital Thriving: Carrie James and Emily Weinstein, long-time collaborators, close friends, and co-authors of Behind Their Screens. Since 2011, before most teens had smartphones, they’ve been slowing down to listen to what young people are actually grappling with online. In this episode they share the WTF moments that have stopped them in their tracks during their research, from a 13-year-old carryin...
17 Oct 2026
WTFAI EP003: "The World Is Our Thinking Gym" ft. Dylan Humphrey
In this episode of WTFAI, Beck and Dan Be talk with Dylan Humphrey, who originally coined the term "thinking gym" -- spaces, practices, and routines designed to exercise human thinking without reliance on AI. Together they talk about what it means to explore AI when the communities around you are pulling in opposite directions. Dylan puts his own relationship with AI at level 20 out of 100; Dan Be elaborates on the sticky-honey feeling of exploring a tool you're not sure you should; Beck comp...
25 Sept 2026
WTFAI EP002: "I Have Broken Once" ft. Rebecca Winthrop
In this episode of WTFAI, Beck and Dan Be talk with Rebecca Winthrop about the times she's broken her own rules with AI -- from a chatbot that reached through the screen and hugged her at 11pm, to a corn intolerance she couldn't untangle alone, to the years of careful distance she kept in between. They explore narrow versus wide AI, treating a chatbot like a piece of paper, the vulnerability that pulls us toward these tools when no one else quite gets it, and why being met warmly by a machine...
21 Aug 2026
WTFAI EP001: Um... What's... That... Feeling?
In the pilot episode of WTFAI, Beck Tench and Dan Be Kim unpack what a "WTF moment" with AI actually is -- from feeling seen by a lunch-planning chatbot, to outsourcing a sacred annual ritual to Claude, to catching yourself becoming the perpetrator of expectation explosion. They explore awe, AI ick, the blurry line between navigating and being navigated, and why sitting with discomfort matters more than running from it. References & Links Moltbook — The "Reddit for AI agents" where bots p...
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