







The final episode of Season Five is here
Release the pressure | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Episode four of Sunset Season Five is here!

Episode 5: Metaphors for AI, with Shannon Vallor
This week, Adam talks with Shannon Vallor, a philosopher of AI, about the metaphors we use to talk about AI and ourselves. They also dunk on libertarians and San Francisco billboards, and consider what kind of hope we can have for the future of technology.Messages: • Support the show at patreon.com/DreamingAgainstTheMachine • Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram • Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts! • Check out other great podcasts from Multitude like Wow if TrueAbout the show:Dreaming Against the Machine is a podcast about envisioning a realistic and hopeful future. Each week, the show’s host, journalist and astrophysicist Dr. Adam Becker, will have an earnest (and entertaining!) conversation with a guest about possible futures, seen through the lenses of history, science, and culture. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the terms of the public conversation about what our world can and should be.

Paper's back | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible …

Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri), April 15 2024 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Will AI someday do all our scientific research for us? Not likely. Drs. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri join for a takedown of the hype of

Monumental | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Sunset 5.3 is here! Plus, why this newsletter has a new home.

NOVA | The Wisdom of the Crowds | Season 45 | Episode 6
Crowds hold a predictive power that can have startling accuracy.

Sunset meets its Equinox | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
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Special episode: Apps vs Files with Gordon Brander, Peter van Hardenberg & Jess Martin.
The Machine Already Won. Can Humans band together before it's too late?
This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst
Podcast Episode · Plain English with Derek Thompson · 09/23/2025 · 59m
The Machine Already Won. Can Humans band together before it's too late?
Clip the Apex | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Grab the complete second season of The Sunset Chronicles, out now

The Creature in the Machine | Frankly 120
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses