Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-Stockwell

Little by little, we’ve handed our choices to machine intelligences: social media feeds, chatbots, dating apps – each quietly shaping our thoughts and decisions. Author and technologist Tobias Rose-Stockwell examines how these tools are rewiring what it means to be human: what we gain, what we lose, and what we should fight to hold on to. tobias.substack.com

Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-Stockwell is a technology podcast hosted by Tobias Rose-Stockwell, with 6 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Tobias Rose-Stockwell hosts Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-Stockwell, a technology show with 6 episodes published.

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  Episode 5: What happens when all the good people leave social media?

  Jan 30, 20261h 3mS1

  <p>What happens when the good people leave social media?</p><p>Chloé Valdary walked away from 110,000 followers on social media. Not a quiet, lurking exit — but a hard delete.Chloé was a force of nature on Twitter. She built a huge following helping people navigate some of the platform’s thorniest issues with grace and empathy. While many cancelled and called out, Chloé dove headfirst into the hardest conversations offering deep reflection and a dose of savvy humanizing. From George Floyd to Gaza, she was there, helping to deescalate.</p><p>Then she left.</p><p>In this episode, we unpa...

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  Episode 4: Your kid will probably date an AI, and other terrifying thoughts – A conversation with the founder of Hinge

  Dec 1, 202537 minS1

  <p>Will people stop dating humans?</p><p>Over a decade ago, the movie Her portrayed a world where by where large numbers of people opted out of dating, and instead turned to AI for their emotional needs. </p><p>Justin McLeod is the founder and CEO of Hinge. He has spent more than a decade thinking about how algorithms shape dating, choice, and human connection.</p><p>In this conversation, we look at the rise of AI companionship, how business incentives affect these systems, and where AI-driven intimacy may be heading.</p><p>I press Justin on the risks...

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  Episode 3: Tristan Harris on how to safely build artificial minds

  Oct 31, 20251h 4mS1

  <p>Today I’m releasing a conversation with Tristan Harris.</p><p>Tristan is the founder of the Center for Humane Technology and one of the leading voices warning about how runaway AI might destabilize society. He starred in (and co-produced) the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma.</p><p>I’ve known Tristan for a long time, and this is one of the best conversations we’ve ever had—public or private. I press him on major risk scenarios, what we can expect AI labs and legislators to do in the face of AGI, and what he thinks can actually be done...

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  Episode 2: Tim Urban of Wait But Why on Algorithmic Viruses, Cultural Antibodies, and the Art of Audience Building

  Oct 3, 20251h 13mS1

  <p>Something is wrong with society—we feel it before we name it. Is it the algorithms? The platforms? The culture we create in response to them?</p><p>In this episode of Into the Machine, I sit down with Tim Urban—creator of Wait But Why, TED phenomenon, and author of What’s Our Problem?—to triangulate the crisis we’re living through: a moment where technology has outpaced our culture, and tribalism is turned into profit.</p><p>We trace a long arc—from the chaos of Gutenberg’s printing press to the attention fracking of TikTok—to ask a deceptivel...

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  Episode 1: Is AI Making Us Stupid? A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt

  Sep 18, 20251h 5mS1

  <p>Today I’m launching Into The Machine.</p><p>My first episode is a conversation with my colleague, social psychologist and #1 NYT bestselling author Jonathan Haidt.</p><p>Jon and I wrote a piece in The Atlantic called The Dark Psychology of Social Networks — hoping to add clarity to the debate around social media. AI has changed the conversation. We now find ourselves in a stranger moment with LLMs, asking deeper questions about what these tools are doing to our ability to think.</p><p>In this episode we discuss: </p><p>* Attention as civic infrastructure: the erosion of sust...

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