Ailish McLaughlin

Trust Issues

Technology EN ↓ 5 episodes

How AI works, where it's going, and what it means for our futures: these are the questions Trust Issues sets out to answer, so you can make your own mind up about the technology reshaping work and life. Because right now, most coverage of artificial intelligence sits in one of two camps. There's the tech bro hype, all confidence and "this changes everything." And there's the doom, the worst of the worst, the stuff that makes you want to close the laptop and not open it again. Neither is much help when what you actually want is to decide, sensibly, whether and how AI belongs in your own life. F...

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Ailish McLaughlin

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ElevenLabs: Deepfakes, Darth Vader and How to Know If You Are Speaking to AI 01.07.2026 1:08:49

ElevenLabs: Deepfakes, Darth Vader and How to Know If You Are Speaking to AI AI can now clone a human voice so well that you might not realise you are talking to a machine. So how do you know who, or what, is really on the other end of the line? In this episode of Trust Issues, host Ailish McLaughlin sits down with Louise Meyer-Schönherr from ElevenLabs , one of the fastest growing AI voice compan...

Why opting out of AI is actually harming your future self with Kate Minogue 18.03.2026 1:15:36

You can't opt out of AI. It's already in your Uber, your Netflix, your news feed. So the real question is: do you want to understand it, or let someone else decide how it works for you? Kate Minogue (ex-Meta, AI advisor, founder of The AI Leadership Lab) joins us to talk incentives, algorithms, user power, and why checking out of AI is the worst thing you can do right now. SHOW NOTES About the Gue...

AI - magic or maths? A no-jargon guide on how AI actually works. 11.03.2026 1:09:24

Last week, Florence helped us get our heads around the right mindset for using AI. But there were a lot of words flying around. Agents. LLMs. Machine learning. What do those things actually mean? And more importantly, does it matter? This week we're joined by Raji Ramakrishnan, a product leader at Lloyds Banking Group who works on agentic AI observability. Which, yes, is a mouthful. But by the end...

Drunk Interns, Lazy Brains and Knowing When to To use AI 25.02.2026 1:23:30

This week we're kicking things off with a big question: is AI making us lazy? There's a study from MIT that suggests our brains might be outsourcing more than we realise. And with our brains not fully developing until around age 32, what does it mean that we're handing over so much cognitive work to AI tools before we've even finished cooking? To help us figure it out, we're joined by Florence Jum...

Trailer 24.02.2026 1:27

A podcast for people who care just as much about how to use AI well as they do about what it means for us all.