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June 2026

Superficial Intelligence: Employee Tracking
A *totally* sincere response to workplace AI surveillance
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
Taking Back Your Digital Agency
A conversation with Shae Omonijo on local AI, critical thinking, and the great de-skilling
 • 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
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
Whose Problems Does AI Actually Solve?
a conversation with Dr. Paul Shattuck on power, extraction, and Indigenous democracy
 • 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
 • 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
 • 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
 • 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.
 • 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
 • Life With Machines, Dr Sam Illingworth, and Baratunde Thurston
42:08
The Good Future
I want to live in a world where…
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
2:35
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