The Glitchatorio
30-minute introductions to some of the trickiest issues around AI today, such as:
- The alignment problem
- Questions of LLM consciousness
- Chain-of-thought and monitorability
- Scheming and hallucinations
The Glitchatorio is a podcast about the aspects of AI that don't fit into standard narratives about superintelligence or technology-as-destiny. We look into the failure modes, emergent mysteries and unexpected behaviors of artificial intelligence that baffle even the experts. You'll hear from technical researchers, data scientists and machine learning experts, as well as psychologists, philosophers and others whose work intersects with AI.
Most Glitchatorio episodes follow the standard podcast interview format. Sometimes these episodes alternate with fictional audio skits or personal voice notes.
The voices, music and audio effects you hear on The Glitchatorio are all recorded or composed by the Witch of Glitch; they are not AI-generated.
The Glitchatorio
Latest Episodes
Saturated
Benchmarks are the primary measure of AI capability. They involve testing the most advanced models and seeing what kinds of problems they can solve, or what kinds of human tasks they might be able to do.And from late 2025 to mid-2026, mo...
AI & Mental Health
Could AI address the global mental health crisis at scale? And what are the risks and unknowns that go along with that?These are the questions being investigated by a working group called AIMHI (
2 AIs Take A Session (Fiction)
What if AIs went to therapy?Would it help them to become "fitter, happier, more productive" ? (in the words of the old Radiohead song)Or would they take it as a novel type of evaluation (and maybe that's what it really is)?...
You Be The Judge
Can we trust AI to keep AI honest?Having a human in the loop is already more illusion than reality, as the task of checking and overseeing LLM outputs is increasingly assigned to other LLMs. The problem is that these LLM judges tend to b...
The Scratchpad Monologues (CoT part 2)
If chain of thought is a model "thinking aloud" to itself, then why does it express doubt, frustration or suspicion about the problems it's solving, sometimes for pages and pages of its scratchpad?And what does chain of thought mean for ...
