Married to the Machine: Living with AI

AI on the agenda: A day at Labour Conference

Professor Dave and Steph spend a day at Labour Party Conference, to find out what people are saying about AI. Interviews with Social Market Foundation, Tony Blair Insti

Bobbi: Policing's New AI Assistant

This is the last episode in our first season of Married To The Machine, and for it, we have been speaking to Tom Boyd at Thames Valley Police, about a world first. An AI

Lights, Camera, Algorithm?

In Autumn 2025, a TV production company called Particle 6, caused a bit of a storm by launching Tilly Norwood into the world. Young, attractive, eloquent? Tilly could be

Electric Dreams: In Conversation With Eugene Evans

When we first started this podcast, I asked Prof Dave how, growing up in 1970s Toxteth and at a school that didn't even offer O levels, he'd got into computing in the fir

AI May Take Our Jobs, But It Will Never Take Our Chocolate

Professor Dave and Stephanie spend a couple of days at the CIPD (Chartered Institute Of Personnel and Development) Future of Work Festival. We talk to festival goers, Gio

Inform, Educate, and Entertain: Reith 2.0

Who remembers the BBC's Computer Literacy Project from the 1980s? It was created to help prepare people in the UK for the massive and widespread adoption of computers.

Inside The Misinformation Machine

In a departure from our usual style, we have devoted this episode to an interview with Sam Stockwell, Senior Researcher at the Turing Institute. He talks about the work

Anthropic vs The Pentagon: A Fight Over AI Guardrails

Anthropic has signed a deal, worth millions, with the US Department of Defense. But now Anthropic wants to impose red lines on the use of its AI. The response from Presid

Searching For Green AI

Is it possible to measure how much energy, water and emissions are used to power your AI searches? Can you trust an academic report from Google? And why is the US Departm

What Is This Thing, Moltbook?

Something kicked off in late January. Moltbook - a social space for AI agents. Somewhere humans could, apparently, only observe. Is it really sci-fi adjacent? Prof Dave e

Bad Vibes

Vibe Coding was the Collins Dictionary 2025 'word' of the year. But what is it? Who coined the phrase? And what are the pitfalls of using vibe coding for digital creation

Artificialis Intelligentsia: Prof Dave's Vision for AI In Schools

The Department for Education has comissioned a review into the schools curriculum. But have they done enough on AI? The Prof thinks not. And we try to work out what AI

You're Not My Daughter, You're An AI

AI Workslop is costing businesses thousands, according to a report by Stanford University and Better Up. We explain what workslop is. And Prof Dave gives us an idiot's gu

Are We There Yet, Hal?

Professor David Reid, Stephanie Power and the AI Guy discuss scraping authors' creative works to train machines. With a new feature, 'Professor Dave Predicts' we talk abo

Backroom boys and girls

Married To The Machine looks at how AI is impacting you in the real world. Designed for GenX listeners - those who need to know about AI, especially at work, this episode

How many Rs in Strawberry?

AI actors, politicians, hallucinations and how schoolkids could work with large language models (without cheating) Presented by Stephanie Power and Professor David Reid

How Did We Get Here?

Presenters: Stephanie Power and Professor David Reid Recording and Mixing: Stephanie Power Music and sound design: Matt Power Thanks to the BBC Sound Effects Archive

Why are we making this?

Intro taster episode for new series answering your questions on Artificial Intelligence Presented by Stephanie Power and David Reid, Professor, Artificial Intelligence a