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S5E175 The Name-dropping Episode
This week, Ian and Michael drift through a range of cultural references — actors, composers, old arcade games, and the curious limits of how many famous names any of us can actually remember. Along…
S5E174 AI Anxieties
This week we dig into “AI fatigue” and “AI anxiety”; familiar enough to anyone trying to keep up with the constant churn of tools, hype, and expectations. The conversation circles around whether…
S5E173 Blessed are the Contentmakers
This week’s conversation starts with a small moral dilemma: why is it so easy to consume endless hours of online content, yet oddly difficult to part with even a few euros to support the people…
S5E172 European Tech
This week we explore Europe’s push for digital alternatives — from cloud infrastructure to software ecosystems — and ask what technological independence might realistically look like. The…
S5E171 Claude Code and App Creation on Demand
This week Ian and Michael test the limits of “vibe coding” and find that it might actually work. From there, naturally, we drift into the idea of apps-on-demand, AI minions, and subscription creep,…
S5E170 Bow before your AI Gods
Ian and Michael discuss the desire to automate and outsource or most unpopular and difficult decisions to AI as a means to deflect responsibility; I'd love to help, but my AI assistant decided…
S5E169 AI Circular Economy, Social Media Bans, Media Mergers
Ian and Michael kick off the new season with a host of topics: the self-contained money merry-go-round of the AI industry, proposed social media bans, media consolidation, AI-generated “reality”…
S4E168 The New Year's 2025 Episode
2025 is all but over! For the traditional New Year’s send-off, Ian and Michael look back on the year through the lens of “words of the year” from various dictionaries — and find plenty to be puzzled,…
S4E167 The Xmas 2025 Episode
In the annual AI Unfiltered Christmas episode, Ian and Michael head north (seasonally and philosophically) to discuss visiting Santa Claus Village well outside the traditional festive window, the…
S4E166 Inequality, AI, and the Ghosts of Dead Authors
Ian and Michael take a scenic tour through the modern world’s contradictions, starting with the widening gap between wealth and reality and the quiet, uncomfortable signs of inequality that everyone…
S4E165 Moving Cities, Moving Churches
Ian and Michael wander through the fascinating world of moving city centres and what happens to the buildings left behind, especially churches. From the massive relocation of Kiruna to the quiet…
S4E164 Modals of Obligation is Not a Punk Band
Ian and Michael meander through the quirks, confusions, and small joys of language learning. The conversation ambles across pronunciations, past tenses, and all the little linguistic oddities that…
S4E163 The Mistake-Doing Episode: A Tale of L1 Interference
In this harrowing instalment of AI Unfiltered, Ian and Michael venture deep into the treacherous world of L1 interference: the subtle, sinister force that causes second-language mishaps, awkward…
S4E162 Agentic Browsers
Ian and Michael dig into the new world of agentic browsers, and the idea of a browser that not only searches but shops, books flights, and does chores for you. They debate whether handing an agent…
S4E161 Foldable Phones and Other Flat Ideas
Ian and Michael unfold (literally) the future of tech — from Apple’s rumored foldable phone and the disappearing crease, to the strange evolution of how we work, present, and design in a world…
S4E160 Tron, Reality Shows, the Limits of Innovation, and Other Ponderings
Ian and Michael jump from Tron to reality TV, flying cars, and innovation that might have already peaked. A meandering mix of nostalgia, skepticism, and the usual unfiltered wit. (This description…
S4E159 Workslop and Other Awesome Signs of Progress
Ian and Michael unpack the newly coined term workslop, the kind of messy, half-baked output that happens when people use AI to make their lives easier and their coworkers’ lives harder. From lazy…
S4E158 Word Games
In this episode, Ian and Michael get tangled up in word games: from guessing connections and spelling oddities to debating what words really mean and where they come from. It’s part linguistics, part…
S4E157 Green AI is a Joke, Past Visions of the Future
Ian and Michael discuss whether Green AI is an oxymoron and whether AI can ever be green, and how the future has been depicted in literature of the past. Plus, AI-generated contributor Emma Williams…
S4E156 QR Codes on Roadside Billboards and Other Bad Ideas
Ian and Michael bounce between topics as only they can: from the absurdity of QR codes on roadside advertisements to car tech and pop-up ads, from Jay Leno’s car-collector persona to podcasting’s…
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