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Crashed

In the Crashed podcast, the tech podcast about everything else, hosts Alex Hudson (@alexhuds) and Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel) delve into the complexities of technology and its implications on politics, business and wider society. It’s smart, it’s nerdy and it’s two journalists trying to make sense of a complex tech landscape in the UK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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59:10

Will journalists survive AI? (featuring Sophia Smith...

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2026/04/02

Welcome to Crashed, the tech podcast about everything else. Today, that means the myth of journalism collapsing, the myth of politicians being anywhere near up-to-date with anything, and the myth that data centers are fineWe’re currently in the web traffic apocalypse, the jobpocalypse, the quantum apocalypse, and the wars on many fronts actual apocalypse, with the media collapsing, trust in democracy collapsing, and journalists only being trusted more than estate agents.Can journalism be saved? And,

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58:56

Instagram and YouTube do damage teenagers' mental health

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2026/03/26

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker dissect the many court cases facing Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp owners Meta and Google-owned YouTube. What does a multi-million dollar fine mean? What about many of them?Also, the AI battle for supremacy (pun intended) takes a number of steps forward in a few days, and what on earth happened to Google Zero? Oh, and something about the Lord Voldemort of Facebook. To support, go to https://bit.ly/CrashedPodcast or search Crashed podcastFollow:Alex:

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58:56

The AI 'jobpocalypse' is coming... as is the AI...

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2026/03/19

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker are joined by journalist Ellen Scott to talk about the so-called “jobpocalypse” caused by AI and how the workforce is changing. Alex and Chris also cover how encryption has become a dirty word at Meta and just what a Cold War between the US and China looks like in the new age of AI.Follow Ellen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellencscott/?hl=en Subscribe to her Substack: https://workingonpurposenewsletter.substack.com/ Buy her book:

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58:59

Taylor Lorenz makes the positive case for social media

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2026/03/12

Is social media a good thing or a bad thing? Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker and guest tech journalist Taylor Lorenz get into the details of mental health, online censorship. algorithmic overreach, and just what Pivot's Scott Galloway says about it all. Follow Taylor on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/taylorlorenz To support, go to https://bit.ly/CrashedPodcast or search Crashed podcastFollow:Alex: www.instagram.com/alexhuds / www.tiktok.com/@alexhuds Chris:

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59:11

"Tierification" means things are getting worse, more...

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2026/03/05

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker interview financial psychology expert and journalist Hanna Horvath about the ‘tierification of everything”, discuss how airport lounges could be a metaphor for the downfall of the whole global economy, report from on the ground in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress (MWC) and try to work out if a robot is fighting someone but nobody is around to watch it, is it really a fight?Follow Hanna on Substack: Your Brain On Money To support, go to

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57:41

How did the right wing win the internet?

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2026/02/26

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker are joined by academic Dr. Robert Topinka to discuss why the Right is so much better at the internet than the left, why AI could beckon the downfall of the British government, how social media is beckoning the downfall of democracy, and the internet beckoning the downfall of liberal thought… until the fightback.To support, go to https://bit.ly/CrashedPodcast or search Crashed podcastFollow:Alex: www.instagram.com/alexhuds / www.tiktok.com/@alexhuds

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47:18

What's wrong with the internet? Can somebody fix it?

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2026/02/19

Everything online feels a little bit off. Whether it’s deepfakes, the great meme-reset, or analogue communities posting about it on Instagram, presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker try to get to the bottom of what’s wrong with the internet.Also, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced that deepfakes are to be thought of as the same category of crime as terrorism, and we discuss that viral essay comparing COVID-19 to the AI revolution that everybody, maybe literally everybody, has read

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53:37

The end of doomscrolling? the end of Airbnb? And the...

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2026/02/12

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker try to work out how addictive social media (and doomscrolling) really is, try to understand how Airbnb bookings keep going up despite governments trying to shut them down, and a couple of exclusives about the BBC and just how bad Chris's WiFi is. To support, go to https://bit.ly/CrashedPodcast or search Crashed podcastFollow:Alex: www.instagram.com/alexhuds / www.tiktok.com/@alexhuds Chris: www.instagram.com/cstokelwalker/

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1:06:08

The UK’s first AI "Tech Town", Germany's 24 years of...

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2026/02/05

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker try to understand why Barnsley has been picked as the UK’s first Tech Town (spoiler: it’s a Reform target seat, so Alex thinks it might have something to do with it). They speak to Barnsley council leader Sir Stephen Houghton.Also… campaigner, performer, and all-around titan Paulita Pappel talks about tech innovations, censorship, and the patriarchy’s role in the adult industry.Follow Paulita here: https://www.paulitapappel.com/Finally, they discuss

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57:43

Is AI Kool-Aid and FOMO driving UK tech policy?

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2026/01/29

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker interview data politics and social justice academic Dr Elinor Carmi, of City St George’s, about the government wanting 10 million workers to get trained on AI… run by Google, Amazon, and others. Is this a good thing, or, as some critics say, letting economic growth supersede democratic values?Follow Dr Carmi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elinorcarmi/?originalSubdomain=ukLearn more about The Society for Hopeful Technologists:

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52:53

AI could mean "the eyes of the state... on you at all...

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2026/01/22

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker discuss how Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has sparked a media storm over her views on the surveillance state.Her view? "To achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.”We also discuss what Trump is doing in Iceland... we mean Greenland, and what, if anything, trust has do with prosperity. To support, go to https://bit.ly/CrashedPodcast or

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59:57

AI girlfriends to fix loneliness, AI content to fix...

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2026/01/15

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker investigate how AI is transforming our relationships, from best friends to husbands and wives and even therapists, the death spiral of the global media and whether it’s AI to blame, and how Keir Starmer is attempting to influence the influencers.This includes an interview with the author James Muldoon, whose new book Love Machines looks at how AI is changing relationships (you can buy his book here:

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50:40

Elon Musk plays with fire, politicians play in...

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2026/01/08

Crashed is the tech podcast about everything else, Today, hosts Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker discuss whether the controversy around Grok (Groktroversy if you will) and AI-editing images is really the beginning for real regulation, the end of X, or both? They also discuss British politicians playing with AI sandboxes, and all the latest updates from CES.Follow us:Instagram:Alex: https://www.instagram.com/alexhuds Chris: https://www.instagram.com/cstokelwalkerTikTok:Alex:

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1:05:13

What happens in 2026? From LinkedIn's death to...

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2026/01/01

Welcome to Crashed, the podcast about how tech is at the centre of everything, whether that be economics, politics, philosophy, ethics, community, law, religion, education, or literally anything else.Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker take 10 predictions on what’s coming for tech in 2026. From trying to work out if anyone still uses LinkedIn, to whether podcasting might have its cancellation moment, there are a lot of things very likely to happen, and a lot of things not really that

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34:15

It's Christmas! A sincere thank you and the best bits

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2025/12/25

Welcome to Crashed, the podcast about how tech is at the centre of everything, whether that be economics, politics, philosophy, ethics, community, law, religion, education, or literally anything else.Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker take a second over Christmas to thank everyone for listening across the first 10 episodes of a ridiculous experiment before fobbing listeners off by not recording an original episode for Christmas Day and instead looking back at the best bits of the pilot

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47:43

Is every politician being paid by an AI firm now?

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2025/12/18

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker discuss whether a MAGA whisperer will become US ambassador for the sake of a tech deal, our reflections on whether anything actually happened in 2025, and whether there are any politicians who aren’t working for an AI firm.Follow us:Instagram:Alex: https://www.instagram.com/alexhudsChris: https://www.instagram.com/cstokelwalkerTikTok:Alex: https://www.tiktok.com/@alexhudsChris: https://www.tiktok.com/@st0kelSpotify:

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40:59

Will social media kill democracy or will democracy...

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2025/12/11

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker decide whether Australia banning social media for children under 16 is a good or bad thing, whether “fascion” right wing fashion means that fascism is inevitable, and if under 10% of the world’s population living in free democracies means that everything is doomed.Follow us:Instagram:Alex: https://www.instagram.com/alexhudsChris: https://www.instagram.com/cstokelwalkerTikTok:Alex: https://www.tiktok.com/@alexhudsChris:

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55:55

Pop music gets AI treatment, crypto bros gets...

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2025/12/04

What happens when all music is automated? When all our currency is on the blockchain? When all the tech companies own everything?Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker unpack whether a single crypto bro can be responsible for the Bitcoin crash, if music really can be automated, and whetehr the overreporting of the reactions to the AI bubble could make the bubble popping more likely.Follow us:Instagram:Alex: https://www.instagram.com/alexhudsChris:

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57:46

A quantum Budget problem , the “digital erasure of...

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2025/11/27

Chancellor Rachel Reeves only mentioned AI once and didn’t mention quantum at all in the Budget. Why? Wasn’t quantum meant to be a shining light for British innovation? Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel Walker explain why.Also, we’re joined by Dr. Carolina Are and Maedb Joy to discuss what campaigners are calling “the digital erasure of queer communities” across Instagram, Facebook and even WhatsApp. What does that meant for creators and wider society?Finally, who wins the AI chip race?

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46:39

Is Nvidia too big to fail? Could cookie banners cost...

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2025/11/20

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker try to work out whether Nvidia being bigger than the entire British economy is a good thing (spoiler: it isn't), if tech has any way to innovate its way away from monopoly powers (spoiler: it doesn't) and the EU has finally put a price on how annoying cookie banner pop-ups are (spoiler: it's billions) Follow us:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1zO7Ll6SY7W3qBrjhMCQXb?si=9d4dc1a7bcbd4f9bApple Podcasts:

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