Archive - Life With Machines

Taking Back Your Digital Agency

A conversation with Shae Omonijo on local AI, critical thinking, and the great de-skilling

Jun 23 • Life With Machines, Shae O., and Baratunde Thurston

54:17

You Built This Set of More Ethical Tech

alternatives, resources, and reflections from the LWM community

Jun 18 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

Whose Problems Does AI Actually Solve?

a conversation with Dr. Paul Shattuck on power, extraction, and Indigenous democracy

Jun 12 • Life With Machines, Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD, and Baratunde Thurston

44:48

I Don’t Want to Optimize My Way Out of Being Alive

What a room of filmmakers at Sundance taught me about agency, and the lie we keep calling progress

Jun 4 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

May 2026

The Pope Has Entered the Chat

Comparing Notes with Jacob Ward on the Pope, Anthropic, and data centers

May 29 • Life With Machines, Jacob Ward, and Baratunde Thurston

44:13

They Grew Up With AI. Now They’re Taking Control

The young leaders rejecting big tech’s inevitability narrative

May 26 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

You Don't Need Agentic AI. You Need Agency.

What power humans still get to keep, share, and build together.

May 22 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

We're Here to Live Life, Not Optimize It

My conversation with Dr. Sam Illingworth about how AI could bring us back to each other

May 19 • Life With Machines, Dr Sam Illingworth, and Baratunde Thurston

42:08

The Good Future

I want to live in a world where…

May 15 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

2:35

How To Fight Against Manipulated Reality

Documenting the truth safely in 2026

May 8 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

The AI Boom Needs Their Land

How rural and Indigenous youth are defining their own technological future

May 5 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

April 2026

I Put My ChatGPT Breakup on Camera

What leaving Chat taught me about myself

Apr 30 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

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