Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-Stockwell

What happens when the good people leave social media? Chloé Valdary walked away from 110,000 followers on social media. Not a quiet, lurking exit — but a hard delete. Chloé was a force of nature on Twitter. She built a huge following helping people navigate some of the platform’s thorniest issues with grace and empathy. While many cancelled and called out, Chloé dove headfirst into the hardest con...

Will people stop dating humans? Over a decade ago, the movie Her portrayed a world where by where large numbers of people opted out of dating, and instead turned to AI for their emotional needs. Justin McLeod is the founder and CEO of Hinge. He has spent more than a decade thinking about how algorithms shape dating, choice, and human connection. In this conversation, we look at the rise of AI comp...

Today I’m releasing a conversation with Tristan Harris . Tristan is the founder of the Center for Humane Technology and one of the leading voices warning about how runaway AI might destabilize society. He starred in (and co-produced) the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. I’ve known Tristan for a long time, and this is one of the best conversations we’ve ever had—public or private. I press hi...

Something is wrong with society—we feel it before we name it. Is it the algorithms? The platforms? The culture we create in response to them? In this episode of Into the Machine , I sit down with Tim Urban—creator of Wait But Why, TED phenomenon, and author of What’s Our Problem? —to triangulate the crisis we’re living through: a moment where technology has outpaced our culture, and tribalism is t...

Today I’m launching Into The Machine . My first episode is a conversation with my colleague, social psychologist and #1 NYT bestselling author Jonathan Haidt. Jon and I wrote a piece in The Atlantic called The Dark Psychology of Social Networks — hoping to add clarity to the debate around social media. AI has changed the conversation. We now find ourselves in a stranger moment with LLMs, asking de...

We are living in a strange moment. AI is everything, everywhere, all at once. Democracy is very much on the ropes. We are all confused about what comes next. Upstream of our troubles are a handful of algorithms that are legible to us for now. Yet newer systems rapidly being deployed are far more powerful, and far more influential than social media ever was. Over the coming months I’ll be releasing...