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18 AI-focused podcasts currently tracked18 AI podcasts

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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.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

Direction compares the latest report with recent weeks; small changes are “About the same,” and gaps mean no measurement.

Safety & governance · 12.8% · Sep 14–20, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Safety & governance

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

Sep 14–20, 2026

12.8%About the sameDown 0.7 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 · Sep 14–20, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 13.5% to 12.8%, with evidence across 12 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a new LLM Pain Axis??” and “Why I still haven’t bought into true RSI”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 12 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

9 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 5 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a new LLM Pain Axis??

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    “I agree with you there, but I think for all signs, it's fairly easy to say right now that the Chinese are less concerned with AI safety. And so offering them an AI safety pacing the frontier is not something which is something that they're willing to purchase at an expensive p...”
    Open episode and seek to 29:08

    ConceptSafety & governance

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Interconnects

Why I still haven’t bought into true RSI

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    “exaggerating risk timelines or severity will have negative second-order effects. uh I remember many loud AI safety debates and their associated clouds over the viability of open-source AI in 2023 and 2024. The primary risks then did not arrive in the forecasted timelines”
    Open episode and seek to 00:00

    ConceptSafety & governance

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AI For Humans

Instinct & Meta Muse Are AI Agents That Can Run Your Life. We Let One Try.

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    “it is not a bad— necessarily a bad thing for us to take a pause here and say, like, hey, let's make sure that these things are safe going forward”
    Play from 19:57

    ConceptSafety & governance

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AI Inside

It's All About That Pace

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    “When you earlier, you were talking about safety being, you know, real safety being applying to things other than what people are talking about and really clearly reacting to um at a large scale. I did notice that you didn't necessarily mention safety of, like, systems, right? ...”
    Play from 11:18

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    “There's no such thing as perfect guardrails. Uh, it would be a fool's, uh, uh, uh comfort to think we could land there.”
    Play from 12:47

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Latent Space

Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC

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    “They are both talking about whether you can prevent models from being jailbroken these days. national security risks are kind of— that conversation is actually emerging. Other than that, I think you mostly see a kind of— uh there's no concerns with any particular model or any ...”
    Open episode and seek to 32:46

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    “That's the second thing. So if you go down to the third-party testing for hallucinations out on the left, that's basically the next requirement. This is where we test how well does it actually work.”
    Open episode and seek to 20:24

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    “I see. So we talked a lot about the agent-level certification. Where do you guys go from here? So announcing Series A, off camera we talked about this a bit. Um There's the whole security risk of Fable, government stepping in. You guys are kind of announcing that you're also g...”
    Open episode and seek to 25:26

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