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18 AI-focused podcasts currently tracked18 AI podcasts

Currently tracking18 AI-focused podcasts

  • AI For Humans
  • AI Inside
  • AI Today Podcast
  • Eye on AI
  • Gradient Dissent
  • Interconnects
  • Last Week in AI
  • Latent Space
  • Machine Learning Street Talk
  • Me, Myself, and AI
  • No Priors
  • Practical AI
  • The AI Daily Brief
  • The AI Native Dev
  • The Artificial Intelligence Show
  • The Cognitive Revolution
  • The TWIML AI Podcast
  • Training Data

Trends over time

Jul 13–Oct 4, 2026 · 12 published weeks

In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

3 topics highlighted · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026

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Topic attention across published weeksEach colored line uses the same attention scale. Only topics with published measurements are shown; their shares do not necessarily total 100%. Breaks mean missing measurements, not zero. Dated dots open that topic and week below.0%11.3%22.5%33.8%45%Jul 13Jul 20Jul 27Aug 3Aug 10Aug 17Aug 24Aug 31Sep 7Sep 14Sep 21Sep 28Adoption Use Cases: About the same in the latest reportAdoption Use Cases33.4%Research: Gaining attention in the latest reportResearch22.7%Agents: About the same in the latest reportAgents14.5%Safety & governance: Losing attention in the latest reportSafety & governance8.6%Hardware: Gaining attention in the latest reportHardware7.9%Regulation: About the same in the latest reportRegulation3.9%Open Models: About the same in the latest reportOpen Models3.1%Economics: Losing attention in the latest reportEconomics2.5%Infrastructure: About the same in the latest reportInfrastructure1.2%Jobs: About the same in the latest reportJobs1.2%Other: Below threshold in the latest reportOtherNo measurement

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Safety & governance · 11.1% · Aug 10–16, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Safety & governance

Ways to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.

Aug 10–16, 2026

11.1%About the sameDown 0.6 percentage points from last week

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Safety & governance, week by weekDated controls show each week's attention share. Gaps mean no qualifying measurement, not zero. Select a week to read its discussion below.0%11.3%22.5%33.8%45%
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Safety & governance · Aug 10–16, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 11.7% to 11.1%, with evidence across 9 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses” and “What Chess.com Teaches US About Superhuman Capabilities, with CEO Erik Allebest”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 9 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

7 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses

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    “I'm like optimistic that even if they were to train in some sort of 2027, you become an evil AI, that we'd be able to sniff that out and keep that to a manageable risk level.”
    Open episode and seek to 1:53:59

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No Priors

What Chess.com Teaches US About Superhuman Capabilities, with CEO Erik Allebest

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    “I think it will be a little bit scary if we don't put guard rules, guardrails around that, and rules for how it should engage with humans.”
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Eye on AI

American Companies Have 36 Months to Go AI-Native or Get Left Behind | Drew Cukor, TWG AI

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    “there's humans in the loop that are ultimately responsible for yes, no, and this is going out the door. Even if it's straight-through processing, there's still humans that are observing that. So there's humans there looking at it. To the automations that we build in, where we'...”
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The AI Native Dev

The Background Check You Can't Run on an AI Agent

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    “Right? And that's the 3 layers that we now have to think about. for that purpose gives you access to do what thing. And that's— those are the layers of complexity. And if you think of it from that perspective, that's how the layer of the complexity of identity systems have— th...”
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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#230: Big Google AI Leadership Shakeups, New Details of OpenAI’s Agent Hack, White House AI Framework & OpenAI’s Astra Model Delayed

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    “They apparently did claim that Astra was not involved in the Hugging Face incident, but who knows. So Paul, where, where are we at on this? I mean, it sounds like they're delaying this not because it needs more work from an intelligence perspective, but from a safety one.”
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