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Galaxy Brain

The Atlantic

The internet has warped public life: Politicians behave like influencers, the economy resembles a casino, and people can no longer agree upon a consensus reality. New conspiracy theories, memes, and main characters seem to pop up every day. A constant war is on for your attention, and it’s easy to feel lost. Each week, Galaxy Brain and its host Charlie Warzel invite you into conversations to make sense of the online fire hose. Is AI destroying our ability to think? Do your grandparents have a screen-time problem? Galaxy Brain looks beyond the algorithm and anchors you to the real—however strange it may be.

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52 episodes

  1. Is It Time To Rebuild the Internet? 43:40
  2. The Armageddon Economy 52:20
  3. What ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Tells Us About America 55:15
  4. Is Crypto Dead? Or More Influential Than Ever? 51:25
  5. An Argument Against AI Doom 59:31
  6. We’re All Being Recorded. What Do We Do About It? 54:50
  7. Lina Khan on the AI-Safety Panic 34:37
  8. Is AI Writing Inevitable? 46:07
  9. The Singularity Is Not What It Seems 19:07
  10. Why So Many Men Are Unraveling 50:27
  11. Welcome to the Scrolling Backlash 1:09:06
  12. How Social Media Makes Our Lives Smaller 51:36
  13. The Former ‘Voice of Google’ Speaks Out 52:51
  14. Why AI Is Making Things More Expensive 41:49
  15. How the World Cup Finally Won Over America 33:32
  16. The Hidden Cost of Optimizing Everything 45:15
  17. What Do We Do About Elon Musk? 49:58
  18. Why Reading Feels So Hard Now 46:42
  19. How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late 48:47
  20. Jomboy on Robot Umpires and the Future of Baseball 38:15
  21. How to Win Elections in the Attention Economy 43:57
  22. Why Everyone Hates AI Data Centers 42:50
  23. How Dropout Cracked Internet Comedy 42:27
  24. Chris Hayes on Calibrating Your AI Anxiety 47:24
  25. Flipping Off Phones 52:05
  26. Did a Human Write This? 51:29
  27. How Short-Form Clips Took Over the Internet 43:27
  28. Breaking Free From Alex Jones 58:27
  29. Your Favorite Influencer Might Be AI 46:48
  30. Is AI Going to Turn Us All Into Middle Managers? 50:30
  31. What Is Twitter’s Legacy, 20 Years Later? 56:29
  32. How AI Is Reshaping the Battlefield 38:04
  33. Why Is It So Hard to Make a Good Weather App? 35:50
  34. Did Netflix Ruin Movies? 42:11
  35. What Do the People Building AI Believe? 36:45
  36. The AI-Panic Cycle—And What’s Actually Different Now 46:47
  37. King Gizzard, Spotify, and the Future of Music 42:04
  38. The Manosphere Breaks Containment 47:38
  39. How to Be a Citizen in the Information War (And Stay Sane) 46:44
  40. ICE Is Turning Real Conflict Into Viral Content 48:58
  41. The Internet Was Built to Objectify Women 39:55
  42. Grok’s "Digital Undressing" Crisis and a Manifesto to Build a Better Internet 1:15:33
  43. The New Mainstream Media 1:04:20
  44. Are Your Parents Addicted to Their Screens? 58:20
  45. Bonus Episode: Reacting to the Epstein Files’ Release 1:12:51
  46. Prediction Markets and the ‘Suckerifcation’ Crisis With Max Read 54:22
  47. How YouTube Ate Podcasts and TV, With Rachel Martin, Ashley Carman, and Derek Thompson 1:03:54
  48. When Chatbots Break Our Minds, With Kashmir Hill 1:01:01
  49. America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy With Eliot Higgins 58:42
  50. Are Sports the Most Valuable Commodity in the World? With Pablo Torre 50:32