Talking to the Machine
Worldviews through different lenses with humans and AI personas. AI, Power, Politics, Media, and the Architecture of Belief.
Talking to the Machine is a cutting-edge AI podcast and talk show where human hosts and guests debate news, politics, technology, media bias, generative AI, machine learning, free speech, censorship, power structures, epistemology, and digital culture with artificial intelligence co-hosts and guests.
Smart, skeptical, and provocative, this AI and society podcast challenges narratives, analyzes patterns, and questions certainty in an era of algorithms and misinformation. Confidence is provisional. Verification is mandatory.
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New episodes, Gnorm's Gnews Gnuggets, and the historical-persona interviews all land on Substack first.
The show lives at analogscott.substack.com
New episodes go up on Substack first, along with everything that doesn't fit in the runtime. Free to read and listen; paid subscribers get early access to episodes and to the Looptah Connect personas.
Gnorm's Gnews Gnuggets
The headlines run through a centuries-old, rage-powered gnome with the emotional regulation of a chainsaw. News commentary for people tired of being talked down to.
Interviews with the dead
Socrates, Franklin, Kafka, Eisenhower, Gramsci and the rest — historical personas built to argue from their own frameworks about problems they never lived to see.
Everything else
Written pieces, deeper reads, behind-the-scenes, and what got cut from the episode and why.
Episode archive
Earlier episodes stay here with their players and show notes. For anything new, head to Substack.
Socrates vs. the Machine
Why every new tool gets blamed for human choices. AI didn't sign the permit. Somebody with a title and a signature did.
Newsletter on Substack
Best moments, links, and behind-the-scenes notes. One email. No spam.
Talk to Gnorm and Seamus yourself
Paid Substack subscribers get early access to Looptah Connect personas — starting with Gnorm and Seamus from Gnorm's Gnews Gnuggets. Same two you hear on the show, except now they answer you directly.