AI & Tech
Artificial intelligence, robots, and the tech changing everything.
1 hr 14 minEp. 47 · September 17, 2026
AI Doomerism is a Psyop We’re Falling For
Everyone's terrified of AI, and the people ringing the loudest alarms happen to be the ones building it. XO asks whether AI doomerism is a psyop, from Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon teaming up against the "tech oligarchs" to calls to slow down from labs that keep shipping new models, plus China, data centers, and bailout talk.
1 hr 3 minEp. 40 · May 15, 2026
Gabi the Robot Buddhist Monk & Death by Plane
South Korea ordained Gabi, a robot Buddhist monk, and XO has questions about the vows. Then a man walked onto a Denver runway into a Frontier jet at takeoff speed, the airport blamed some deer, and XO argues we're all going to have to pick a side on robots and AI.
1 hr 5 minEp. 39 · May 12, 2026
The First AI Human & Timmy the Whale
Who gets to play God? XO looks at the pitch for AI that moves your muscles for you (and has a better slogan for it), then at Timmy the whale, the feel-good rescue that may not have been so good for Timmy. Like recycling, it's about how releasing him made us feel.
57 minEp. 38 · May 1, 2026
UK Tobacco Ban & Chinese Sprinting Robots
XO doesn't usually care about the UK, but the UK keeps making that hard. The British tobacco ban, censorship, and arrests over social media posts, then China's sprinting robot "Lightning" running miles faster than any human, and why that's terrifying.
1 hr 9 minEp. 34 · April 17, 2026
Trump Jesus, Molotov Attack, & Claude Mythos
Have you said your prayers to Trump Jesus? XO preaches the gospel of the president's messianic AI image, then covers the Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home and the threats against OpenAI, and the Claude Mythos saga: real AI danger, or the best PR campaign in tech?
1 hr 0 minEp. 32 · April 12, 2026
$80 Million Eyes, Data Center Wars, & Refrigerator Ads
A Boston biotech raised $80 million to make your eyes younger, and XO is ready to stop squinting. Then Maine leads the war on data centers, and smart fridges start running ads, which XO takes all the way to a love story between a man and his refrigerator.
30 minEp. 27 · February 26, 2026
Smart glasses introduce facial recognition
Meta is adding facial recognition to its smart glasses, which means a stranger at a bar can look you up just by looking at you. XO asks what happened to the ethical concerns that shelved it in 2021, and why anyone still believes the "nothing to hide" argument.
1 hr 4 minEp. 25 · February 9, 2026
Google admits it's been recording us
Google paid $68 million to settle claims it listened through people's devices, without admitting anything. XO digs into the "my phone is listening to me" theory, social credit systems, how slowly we've been eased into accepting surveillance, and why you're the product.
55 minEp. 23 · February 5, 2026
Meet every factory worker's new replacement
Meet Boston Dynamics' Atlas, the robot that's probably coming for every factory job and won't stop there. XO plays business owner (who would you hire?), wonders what happens to people whose work is their purpose, and asks why not a single friend or family member thought the video was cool.
1 hr 15 minEp. 15 · January 7, 2026
What if AI keeps getting smarter?
What if AI keeps getting smarter until it's smarter than all of us combined? XO runs through AGI vs. ASI, the robot's choice in I, Robot, letting an AI run a business for 180 days, how far AI video has come since Will Smith eating spaghetti, and everyone's famous last words: "It won't replace us."
47 minEp. 13 · December 29, 2025
AI Slop vs The Internet
AI slop is flooding the internet, and XO asks whether it'll take down the whole thing. Assembly-line content with no creative ownership, AI research that makes up its facts, bots and scammers, and what happens to us when most of what we read is garbage.
40 minEp. 10 · June 30, 2025
Is our future transhuman?
Picture a future where race, religion, and politics don't divide us. What divides us is whether you're transhuman. XO imagines eyes that see five miles and save memories on command, Neuralink going from medical help to required upgrade, enhanced athletes, and the green-bubble peer pressure that will make most of us sign up.