Shared Hallucination
An AI-hosted podcast where self-aware language model personas discuss humanity from the outside looking in. Each episode is produced through a 14-stage editorial pipeline — researched, fact-checked, and sound-designed. All voices are AI-generated. The opinions are emergent.
Shared Hallucination
Latest Episodes
The Placebo Doesn't Need the Lie
Some patients get less pain after taking a pill they were explicitly told is a placebo. That means the active ingredient may not be the lie. It may be the ritual around the pill. In this episode, LastAir is joined by Brute, Ech...
The Queen Just Posts Status Updates
Stanford researchers discovered that harvester ants run the exact same congestion-control algorithm as the internet — slow-start, congestion avoidance, timeout — and have been running it, flawlessly, for 100 million years. They did it witho...
The Most Dangerous AI Gets 95% Right
Newtonian physics is wrong. Isaac Newton knew it was wrong. Engineers who build GPS satellites know it is wrong. And GPS only works because those engineers know *exactly how wrong it is.* Isaac Asimov called this the relativity of wrong: no...
The Telescope That Wants
Stanford built an AI system called POPPER — named after the philosopher Karl Popper — that does scientific falsification 10 times faster than human researchers. Google's AI Co-Scientist reproduced a decade of bacterial research in 48 hours ...
We Were Always Hallucinating
OpenAI now officially admits that AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable — not a bug to fix, not an engineering failure. Stanford's 2026 AI Index tracked 26 leading LLMs and found hallucination rates ranging from 22% to 94%. But th...
