# The Most Interesting Thing in AI

A podcast by Atlantic Re:think. A podcast series examining how AI is reshaping our world. Hosted by Nicholas Thompson, each episode features a conversation with a leading thinker who offers a fresh perspective on the far-reaching ethical, economic, and social implications of this technology. This podcast is from The Atlantic’s CEO and is produced independently of The Atlantic’s editorial staff. Some episodes have a supporting sponsor. Those episodes are clearly labeled and the sponsor is named.

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## Latest episodes

- [How to Prevent an AI Apocalypse - Nate Soares with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/985229a180b5) (2026-10-21, 75 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3097315451.mp3
- [Why Ray Dalio is Worried About an AI Bubble](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/562ffb0d15f8) (2026-10-14, 50 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3957337196.mp3
- [Building Models That See the World - Eric Xing with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/d11dfa508b3d) (2026-10-07, 74 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL4834467292.mp3
- [The Risks of Artificial Relationships - Sherry Turkle with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/b36eb0a1d6c6) (2026-09-30, 58 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL1955297712.mp3
- [The Case Against the AI Bubble - Azeem Azhar with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/638a3e85d4ec) (2026-09-23, 66 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL4581399849.mp3
- [The Future of Economic Power - Circle’s Jeremy Allaire with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/32159ee02b0a) (2026-09-16, 70 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL4815179801.mp3
- [The Race to Superintelligence - Richard Socher with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/f9b28b97984e) (2026-09-09, 69 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL1026849605.mp3
- [How to Get Hired in the AI Era - Clara Shih with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/8311563c3538) (2026-09-02, 51 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL5287907611.mp3
- [Kara Swisher on What Silicon Valley Is Getting Right—and Wrong—in AI](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/3a4f3ec88951) (2026-08-26, 50 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL6436889024.mp3
- [How AI Could Upend Global Politics - Ian Bremmer with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/76a9f3bcd11f) (2026-08-19, 65 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL9155477058.mp3
- [Writing in the Age of AI - Gemini Notebook’s Steven Johnson with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/f6544b43cfbb) (2026-08-12, 63 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL7792822998.mp3
- [Meta's Plan to Win in AI - Andrew Bosworth with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/5593908bb010) (2026-07-08, 51 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL1573368832.mp3
- [AI’s Threat to Privacy — Signal’s Meredith Whittaker with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/f606cad2f65a) (2026-07-01, 52 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8332592676.mp3
- [Will AI Agents Kill Social Media–Or Save It? Eli Pariser with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/5f75263c6b16) (2026-06-24, 45 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL2715876801.mp3
- [How AI Agents Are Changing Business - PwC’s Dan Priest with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/597d2554f2cd) (2026-06-17, 32 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL4959858744.mp3
- [How AI Is Changing Code - Paul Ford with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/1d32249167c0) (2026-06-10, 51 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL6629563301.mp3
- [How Science Can Fix Dishonest AI - Yoshua Bengio with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/87f04ce9dd8d) (2026-06-03, 51 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL1786998701.mp3
- [The AI Jobs Disruption - Erik Brynjolfsson with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/89673e844202) (2026-05-27, 63 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8013234751.mp3
- [The Limits of Predictive AI - Carissa Véliz with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/01deb03077bd) (2026-05-20, 49 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL2093556764.mp3
- [AI Utopia or Catastrophe? Nick Bostrom with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/b33bd3057e89) (2026-05-13, 49 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL4038132758.mp3?updated=1778683037
- [The Case for Open-Source AI - with Nicholas Thompson and Raffi Krikorian](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/b160444cd764) (2026-05-06, 54 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8414528572.mp3?updated=1778016189
- [Sam Altman on Where AI Models Go Next, with Nicholas Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/1bd7a0394856) (2026-04-29, 54 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL2881416108.mp3?updated=1777410788
- [Data Centers in Space - with Nicholas Thompson and Ariel Ekblaw](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/53d48b70169f) (2026-04-22, 40 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL7748846953.mp3?updated=1777409859
- [Season 4 Trailer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/fa02fb4ecb3e) (2026-04-15, 1 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL7739661321.mp3?updated=1776865543
- [The Copyright Wars - with Nicholas Thompson and Bill Gross](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/4ae7f23131cd) (2025-11-26, 37 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL2976261418.mp3?updated=1764001193
- [Building Trustworthy AI - with Nicholas Thompson and Navrina Singh](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/65f50c414959) (2025-11-19, 38 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8966086482.mp3?updated=1763396924
- [AI in Flight - with Nicholas Thompson, Tory Bruno and Joe Schurman](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/7dde5c0fbeb8) (2025-11-12, 40 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL6190625210.mp3?updated=1762887023
- [Artificial Life - with Nicholas Thompson and Lee Cronin](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/90f65bfc7ef9) (2025-11-05, 26 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3966470352.mp3?updated=1762197664
- [The Future of AI at Work - with Nicholas Thompson and Matt Wood](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/4d66777d3234) (2025-10-29, 29 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL7294654770.mp3?updated=1761741344
- [The AI Athlete - with Nicholas Thompson and Will Ahmed](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/9df207e0d7d4) (2025-10-22, 34 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL7080635688.mp3?updated=1760727750
- [Neuro-Symbolic AI - with Nicholas Thompson and Ohad Elhelo](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/42815a1cfc12) (2025-10-15, 39 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8407386201.mp3?updated=1760474161
- [Season 3 Trailer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/286ff6ea007d) (2025-10-08, 2 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL5916214591.mp3
- [AI Optimism - with Nicholas Thompson and Kevin Kelly](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/f9a7c1f2757a) (2025-06-18, 38 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL4026116541.mp3?updated=1750098609
- [Pharma's Future - with Nicholas Thompson, Diogo Rau and Dan Priest](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/4845eaf0c92c) (2025-06-11, 42 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3294289594.mp3?updated=1749491166
- [Making Music With AI - with Nicholas Thompson and Holly Herndon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/83dcc404af58) (2025-06-04, 37 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3428531849.mp3?updated=1748895402
- [Outsourcing Thought - with Nicholas Thompson and Nita Farahany](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/44b558696b2f) (2025-05-28, 44 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3307844384.mp3?updated=1748359682
- [Ethical Machines - with Nicholas Thompson and Audrey Tang](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/e530e516af36) (2025-05-21, 48 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL9729410806.mp3?updated=1747422925
- [A Different Approach to AI - with Nicholas Thompson and Gary Marcus](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/2932d122f3a4) (2025-05-14, 45 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8591880814.mp3?updated=1747328576
- [Season 2 Trailer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/06f9da1159bc) (2025-05-12, 2 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL9464936309.mp3?updated=1747086416
- [Drawing with Robots - with Nicholas Thompson and Sougwen Chung](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/1ac9dedc2358) (2025-01-22, 31 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL9076590729.mp3?updated=1747241213
- [Sustainable Solutions - with Nicholas Thompson, Scott Likens and Heather Horn](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/ec7b3f9213c5) (2025-01-15, 31 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL4838121219.mp3?updated=1747241305
- [Incremental vs. Exponential - with Nicholas Thompson and Andrew Ng](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/245e7c27d554) (2025-01-08, 30 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3513246163.mp3?updated=1747241302
- [Staying Competitive - with Nicholas Thompson and Dan Priest](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/358be812322f) (2024-12-18, 27 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL2889156619.mp3?updated=1747241313
- [Deepfakes and Deception - with Nicholas Thompson and Eva Galperin](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/9eb8db96794f) (2024-12-11, 26 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL5960775731.mp3?updated=1747241464
- [Machine Consciousness - with Nicholas Thompson and Geoffrey Hinton](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1783154139/6b045f82cb32) (2024-12-04, 25 min): audio https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8303438332.mp3?updated=1747242325

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