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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

VAIBE tracks conversations across AI-focused podcasts to show what people are talking about now, and tracks how those conversations change week by week.

This week in AI conversations

Adoption Use Cases and research led the first week of tracking

Across 27 episodes from 15 contributing podcasts, adoption use cases held 30.1% of the relevant conversation and research held 18.5%.

The TL;DR

What changed
This is the first published week, so there is no earlier report to compare.
Where it showed up
Adoption Use Cases, Research, and Safety & governance accounted for 65% of the relevant conversation across 27 episodes.
How to read it
Recurrence across podcasts does not mean agreement. The cited moments show the language behind each summary.

What’s hot this week

The ideas that came up most often, what changed, and why they mattered. Open any topic to see the podcast moments behind it.

  1. Adoption Use CasesPractical ways people and organizations are putting AI to work.Discussion of adoption use cases appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 30% of the conversation across 14 podcasts this week.New this week30% of this week · 14 podcasts
  2. ResearchNew models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.Discussion of research appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 19% of the conversation across 11 podcasts this week.New this week19% of this week · 11 podcasts
  3. Safety & governanceWays to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.Discussion of safety & governance appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 17% of the conversation across 13 podcasts this week.New this week17% of this week · 13 podcasts
  4. AgentsAI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.Discussion of agents appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 8% of the conversation across 12 podcasts this week.New this week8% of this week · 12 podcasts
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  1. EconomicsThe cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.Discussion of economics appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 7% of the conversation across 13 podcasts this week.New this week7% of this week · 13 podcasts
  2. RegulationLaws, rules, and government decisions about how AI may be built and used.Discussion of regulation appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 6% of the conversation across 8 podcasts this week.New this week6% of this week · 8 podcasts
  3. Open ModelsAI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.Discussion of open models appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 5% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.New this week5% of this week · 7 podcasts
  4. JobsHow AI is changing work, hiring, roles, and the skills people need.Discussion of jobs appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 4% of the conversation across 9 podcasts this week.New this week4% of this week · 9 podcasts
  5. HardwareThe chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.Discussion of hardware appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 2% of the conversation across 8 podcasts this week.New this week2% of this week · 8 podcasts
  6. InfrastructureThe software and systems needed to build, deploy, and monitor AI.Discussion of infrastructure appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 2% of the conversation across 6 podcasts this week.New this week2% of this week · 6 podcasts
  7. OtherAI discussion that does not fit another recurring topic.Discussion of other appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 1% of the conversation across 9 podcasts this week.New this week1% of this week · 9 podcasts
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From Jun 22–28, 2026

About this Concept

Safety & governance

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

Trend this week

1 of 1 week tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
This was its first published appearance at 16.5% of the conversation, with evidence across 13 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle” and “AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerme...”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 13 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

Moments are grouped by episode so repeated excerpts from one conversation do not look like separate sources.

15 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

Machine Learning Street Talk

The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle

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    “If an AI can generate a chip design or a proof or a working program, how do you know it's actually correct?”

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    “But the real test is what can the benchmarks say once they scale this up? And something of huge interest to us at MLST is if we're gonna let AI build everything, what kind of understanding do we actually keep in the overall process?”

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    “it'll probably happen”

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The Cognitive Revolution

AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha

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    “But just, this is I can't not bring this up when you're asking me about probability ranges of consciousness for various systems. We're really trying to get non-hand-wavy numbers so that we can start arguing about those numbers rather than just arguing about philosophy that we'...”

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    “behavior can't settle this in either direction”

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    “The behavioural evidence will always be at best interesting, but never should really update us that strongly”

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AI Inside

Liz Reid on What Publishers Get Wrong About AI

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    “We do put extra effort and extra testing on things that we view as higher stakes. So one of the things that is important is we do overall testing, but, you know, we talk about your money, your life queries, right? So we put extra scrutiny on things like medical or things invol...”

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No Priors

Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI Research Scientist Noam Brown

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    “The policies that exist today don't really address that question.”

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    “Yeah, the safety evaluations thing, it's a bit of an inconvenient truth thing where, okay, so I guess for background, a lot of the, all of the labs had these things called either responsible scaling policies, preparedness frameworks, they go by various names. But the idea is t...”

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    “a lot of these frameworks were developed around the era of ChatGPT, either before or after, when test-time compute scaling was not really as much of a thing.”

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AI For Humans

Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.

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    “Yeah, and it's not just about stopping Skynet. No, this could be due to corporate espionage. It's actually really dramatic. Anthropic is pointing fingers at China and wagging them.”

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    “Wait, no, humans, humans. Oh. Welcome, everybody, to AI for Humans, your twice-a-week guide into the wonderful world of AI. I'm Gavin Purcell. That's Kevin Pereira. And Kevin, today we did not get Fable 5, as we know— as we don't know whether it could be happening now. We did ...”

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    “Well, this is a reason, one of the reasons that the Fable release was so guardrailed. They wanted to stop actions like this from happening. And I believe OpenAI has dealt with this, Google has, like others have. But this is a really, really fascinating, Gavin, from April 22nd ...”

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The AI Daily Brief

CEO-Led AI Gets 3X the ROI

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    “Anthropic describes the attacks as illicit largely because it's unclear that anything actually illegal is going on”

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    “In other words, this is a breach of Anthropic's terms of service, but not necessarily the law, although that could change soon. Senators Hagerty and Kim have proposed a bipartisan bill addressing distillation to be included in this year's Defense Authorization Act. If passed, ...”

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