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Preparing for AI

The AI podcast for everybody

Matt Cartwright and Jimmy Rhodes explore the human and social impacts of AI — from politics and religion to economics and health.

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GPT-6 ASTRA, AGENTIC BROWSERS & AGI BY CHRISTMAS: Jimmy & Matt debate their favourite AI stories from Aug/Sept 2026

Send us Fan Mail Check our Matt & Jimmy' products here: Browzr | Discover the Web Beyond Algorithms Des Cartwright — Paintings Meridian Health Tracker KickoffHQ: Live Start Times & Scores for Every…

THE GREAT CRITICAL THINKING CRISIS: How to survive and thrive in the age of AI

Send us Fan Mail Even in the internet era we used to search, compare, and make up our own minds. Now we can ask an AI one question and get a confident answer that feels final, even when it is biased,…

THE GREAT AI BACKLASH: Have we reached the tipping point and what comes next?

Send us Fan Mail Something has shifted: AI no longer feels like a clever tool we can choose to adopt, it feels like a system being imposed on everyday life. Matt's think's we are already over the…

FABLE BAN CONSPIRACIES, DATA CENTRES IN SPACE & APPLE'S AI FIGHTBACK: Jimmy & Matt debate their favourite AI stories from June 2026

Send us Fan Mail A top-tier AI model appears, gets jailbroken, and then disappears within 96 hours. That single arc tells you almost everything about where frontier AI is heading: safety is messy,…

THE GREAT CHINA RECKONING: Why Chinese AI models are cheaper, closer and better than you realise

Send us Fan Mail Frontier AI headlines make it sound like everything comes down to one scoreboard: China versus the US, best model versus second best. We don’t buy that framing. Living in China, we…

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