In honor of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s 3rd anniversary @Alex Hanna and I are going to reflect on the experience of making the pod over the past three years --- and we’d love to answer some listener questions. Send us your questions here:

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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3rd Anniversary - Listener Questions!

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 is turning three! And we want to answer your questions about the show during our livestream recording on Friday, Septe...

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Okay, who has taken one for the team and read "Welcome to the Era of Experience" to provide a critique? At MAIHT3k we haven't gotten there yet, but I'm hoping that someone has.

The latest on the Mystery AI Hype 3000 newsletter: Back to School is Better Without AI

Back to School is Better Without "AI"

It’s that time of year again, when fall is in the air and “AI” is back and worse than ever, creepy-crawling into every corner of our educatio...

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New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: Why do we keep calling this stuff fan fiction?

AI Doomerist Fandoms and Why We Call it Fan Fiction

By Emily We've taken a part a few AI doomer artifacts on the podcast, including most recently the "AI 2027" web page in Episode 56 but also a Googl...

It has been really interesting to attend UNESCO's Digital Learning Week (though unfortunately I'm not able to stick around). My public lecture from yesterday can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6VoMng?t=4250s >>

I appreciated the chance to talk with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for this article. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with Big Tech's messes everywhere, including in our own families, but given that, I'm glad for a chance to help people think this through.

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How Are We Supposed to Talk to Our Kids About AI?

We adopted social media with the critical thinking of a toddler putting a LEGO in their mouth. Let’s not make that mistake again.

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In early July, I had the opporunity to discuss The AI Con with @npub15n85...nqhg at RMIT. ABC is presenting part of that conversation in their programme "Big Ideas" on Tuesday Sept 2:

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The AI Con — unpacking the artificial intelligence hype machine - ABC listen

Is the world really in the midst of an AI revolution, or is it all just clever marketing, powered by immense amounts of money, capital and hype? Th...

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 61 “Winning the Race to Hell”

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Winning the Race to Hell (with Sarah Myers West and Kate Brennan), 2025.08.04 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Trump’s “AI Action Plan” is his latest attempt to turn AI hype into official national policy. Kate Brennan and Sarah Myers West, of the AI No...

in which AI Now Institute’s Kate Brennan and Sarah Myers West join me and @Alex Hanna to wade through the muck that is Trump’s AI Action Plan

Journalists stop prentending that using synthetic text extruding machines to extrude synthetic text is "interviewing" them challenge

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Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient

New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: A bit of historical context for the past week's news that, gee, "AI" isn't all it's cracked up to be

“AI” skepticism went mainstream this week

After years of non-stop hype and bloviation, a flood of recent news stories suggest the tide may be turning on “AI”. Headlines this week announ...

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