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Married to the Machine: Living with AI

Stephanie Power

Everywhere you look right now, people are whispering (or shouting) about AI—sometimes like it’s the future of humanity, sometimes like it’s the end of the world. Stephanie Power, a journalist with a nose for a story, and David Reid, a professor who has been working in this field for a really long time, are here to cut through the noise. Together , they’ll explore how AI is already changing our lives, answering your questions, and considering what it all means for our jobs, our planet, and—yes—our

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27:23

Inside The Misinformation Machine

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2026/03/18

In a departure from our usual style, we have devoted this episode to an interview with Sam Stockwell, Senior Researcher at the Turing Institute. He talks about the work of the Institute and a report they have recently written about how AI is used to spread misinformation after crisis events, like the Southport attacks. Futher reading: https://www.turing.ac.uk/news/new-report-calls-urgent-action-tackle-ai-information-threats-following-crisis-eventsPresenters: Professor David Reid and Stephanie

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02:59

Anthropic vs The Pentagon: A Fight Over AI Guardrails

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2026/02/28

Anthropic has signed a deal, worth millions, with the US Department of Defense. But now Anthropic wants to impose red lines on the use of its AI. The response from President Trump? They're just a bunch of leftwing nutjobs. In episode nine, we imagine a 'liberal elite' AI trying to negotiate with an angry Government department that's just renamed itself the Department Of War. Are we in an AI existential crisis?Sketch written by Matt Power#AI #AIsafety

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29:11

Searching For Green AI

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2026/02/27

Is it possible to measure how much energy, water and emissions are used to power your AI searches? Can you trust an academic report from Google? And why is the US Department of Defense getting into a row with Dario Amodei's AnthropicFurther reading:https://arxiv.org/html/2508.15734v1Some of our sketch voices and the AI Guy are created using Google AI Studio. Presenters: Professor David Reid and Stephanie PowerRecording, editing and mixing: Stephanie PowerMusic and additional material: Matt

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38:12

What Is This Thing, Moltbook?

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2026/02/06

Something kicked off in late January. Moltbook - a social space for AI agents. Somewhere humans could, apparently, only observe. Is it really sci-fi adjacent? Prof Dave explains what appears to be going on.And we talk to the Leader of Barnsley Council, as it is crowned the UK's first Tech Town. Further

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24:47

Bad Vibes

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2026/01/22

Vibe Coding was the Collins Dictionary 2025 'word' of the year. But what is it? Who coined the phrase? And what are the pitfalls of using vibe coding for digital creation?In this bonus episode, we answer all those questions, and wonder if the former Chief Constable of West Midlands Police understands what AI is.Further

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33:30

Artificialis Intelligentsia: Prof Dave's Vision for...

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2025/11/22

The Department for Education has comissioned a review into the schools curriculum. But have they done enough on AI? The Prof thinks not. And we try to work out what AI the Ministry of Justice is planning to use to stop prisoners going AWOL. Presenters: Professor David Reid and Stephanie PowerRecording and Editing: Stephanie PowerSound Design and Jokes: Matt PowerMarried To The Machine: Living With AI is a news podcast, in proof-of-concept phase. Further

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34:27

You're Not My Daughter, You're An AI

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2025/11/12

AI Workslop is costing businesses thousands, according to a report by Stanford University and Better Up. We explain what workslop is. And Prof Dave gives us an idiot's guide to deepfakes. Presenters: Professor David Reid and Stephanie Powerrecording and editing: Stephanie Powersound design and jokes: Matt PowerMarried To The Machine: Living With AI is a new podcast, in proof-of-concept phase. Thanks to:Nationwide Building Society for use of their ad, RTE, Better Up, BBC Sound Archive, Jordan

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29:57

Are We There Yet, Hal?

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2025/11/01

Professor David Reid, Stephanie Power and the AI Guy discuss scraping authors' creative works to train machines. With a new feature, 'Professor Dave Predicts' we talk about how far we are from AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, which is when AI can do EVERYTHING we can. Concept, recording and editing: Stephanie PowerSound design and jokes: Matt PowerPower Productions LtdMarried To The Machine: Living With AI is a news podcast, currently in proof-of-concept stage. It is a non-commercial entity

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28:52

Backroom boys and girls

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2025/10/22

Married To The Machine looks at how AI is impacting you in the real world. Designed for GenX listeners - those who need to know about AI, especially at work, this episode looks at the UK/US tech prosperity deal, the environmental impact of data centres - how much drinking water do you use posting those pics of your dog with human teeth? One listener asks if AI will take all creative jobs, and a mutiny is in the offing, with the AI presenters, even though they only started this week! Music, sound

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29:50

How many Rs in Strawberry?

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2025/10/15

AI actors, politicians, hallucinations and how schoolkids could work with large language models (without cheating)Presented by Stephanie Power and Professor David ReidConcept, recording, and editing: Stephanie PowerSound design and music composition: Matt PowerMarried To The Machine: Living With AI is a news podcast, currently in proof-of-concept stage. It is a non-commercial entity. Credits:Particle 6, AI Comedy Sketch, BBC Sound Effects Archive, Mark Sewards MP (AI Assistant) Neural Voice, The AI

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18:40

How Did We Get Here?

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2025/10/07

Presenters: Stephanie Power and Professor David ReidRecording and Mixing: Stephanie PowerMusic and sound design: Matt PowerThanks to the BBC Sound Effects ArchiveThis podcast is in proof-of-concept stage and is currently non-commercial.Clip credits: Boys From The Blackstuff, BBC, 1982BBC News Margaret Thatcher, 'No, No, No' House of Commons 1990Sinclair ZX80 advert

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06:17

Why are we making this?

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2025/09/30

Intro taster episode for new series answering your questions on Artificial IntelligencePresented by Stephanie Power and David Reid, Professor, Artificial Intelligence and Spatial ComputingRecorded and edited by Stephanie PowerSound design by Matt PowerThanks to BBC Sound Archive and IBM for sound effects. And Gemini 2.5 for our third presenter, the AI

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