Roboism

By Relay

Roboism is a show mostly about robots. We are exploring how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digital assistants are affecting our culture. Come explore the humanity behind the bots that ... more

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The podcast currently has 74 episodes available.

Roboism episodes:

November 22, 2025 74: Who Knew Fascism Would Be the -ism?
Kathy didn't even get to the second page.
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback GOP lieutenant governor candidate uses AI representation of his opponent in online 'debate' - YouTube 'AI Psychosis': Term Doesn't Accurately Describe Chatbot Delusions
"Should we really be calling it 'AI Psychosis?'"
I spent a month living with a $430 AI pet, the Casio Moflin | TechCrunch Mommy blog - Wikipedia Heather Armstrong - Wikipedia Ballerina Farm (@ballerinafarm) | TikTok Hannah Neeleman (Ballerina Farm) - Wikipedia Nara Smith (@naraazizasmith) | TikTok Nara Smith - Wikipedia Ill Conceived: Tradwives - YouTube Ruby Franke - Wikipedia Ree Drummond - Wikipedia Kathy Campbell | Chief Awesome Officer Alex Cox: Independent Queer Tech Podcasts Roboism Feedback - Relay
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1h 25min
October 20, 2025 73: No More Flesh Buddies
Alex and Kathy cover a number of friendly and less friendly topics and try to avoid a Satanic Panic.
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback I Hate My Friend | WIRED Playing to Win Friends & Influence People AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships Antipsychotic medications: a timeline - Our World in Data General psychopathology links and psychotic symptoms in a network approach | Schizophrenia How a chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis" | Psychology Today
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The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT | WIRED ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Devil Worship - The Atlantic Empire of AI by Karen Hao The AI Mirror by Baillie Gifford The Anxious Generation - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts Condé Nast Announces Partnership with OpenAI She Fell in Love With Her Psychiatrist, Told TikTok
ChatGPT
Who TF Did I Marry? - Wikipedia What's The 'Alexander Come Back to Sleep' Trend? | Know Your Meme Lin-Manuel Miranda Can't Get Enough of the Hamilton TikTok Trend - YouTube News - Dragonmount Alex Cox Kathy Campbell | Chief Awesome Officer
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1h 16min
June 13, 2025 72: Pure Undiluted Kathy
Friends?
We recorded this episode months ago and Alex wanted to scrap it. But as usual, Kathy was correct when she said, “I hate it–please publish it.”
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback Friend Reveal Trailer - YouTube Zuckerberg is doing exactly what we worried about. PARO Therapeutic Robot Roboism (@[email protected]) - Mastodon
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1h 19min
September 21, 2024 71: Stroke the Button
Subtitle: Kathy said it.
Alex and Kathy wade through the grey blobs of the past few weeks of Apple’s supposed Intelligence.
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Submit Feedback AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature - 9to5Mac Passwords on the App Store Accessibility - The Lost Voice - Apple Why AI image editing isn’t ‘just like Photoshop’ - The Verge Support Relay's campaign for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital!
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1h 7min
March 18, 2024 70: Command-F for Bigotry
Alex and Kathy catch up on Google's Gemini, Photoshop's AI features, and the latest period technology.
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Submit Feedback What happened with Gemini image generation Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis - The Verge Always Infinity Commercial - YouTube Amazon and iRobot agree to terminate pending acquisition - Jan 29, 2024 Haptic: Reaching Out to the Human Side of Tech Conduit FM | Cotton Bureau Support Roboism
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57min
December 10, 2023 69: Microsoft is Daddy
Immediately after Sammy A's firing but before his rehiring, Alex and Kathy got together to discuss what led up to the OpenAI bonanza and how it affects the future of ordinary humans who don't have podcasts about robots
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Submit Feedback A primer on p(doom) : r/singularity p(doom) | the singularity is nearer Top AI researcher dismisses AI 'extinction' fears, challenges 'hero scientist' narrative | VentureBeat Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO - The Verge Sam Altman is back, so what’s next for OpenAI and ChatGPT? - The Verge Read Microsoft’s internal memos about the chaos at OpenAI - The Verge Anthropic \ Home Satya Nadella on (Almost) Hiring Sam Altman Interview with Sam Altman two days before he was fired | Ep 58 - YouTube Who Is OpenAI’s Sam Altman? Meet the Oppenheimer of Our Age ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they're dog walkers and HVAC techs. - The Washington Post Jezebel Acquired by Paste Magazine Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers Aftermath Give your robot friend the gift of supporting Roboism and Relay FM! The Unicorn Sidekick alexcox.computer
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50min
October 31, 2023 68: Tech Yak
Alex talks AI, gatekeeping, and Digital Miyazaki with friend of the show and developer advocate Jay Miller.
Guest Starring:
Jay Miller
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Submit Feedback K. Jay Miller Microsoft Copilot Steve Ballmer - Web Developers - YouTube Conduit #59: Everything is Broken! - Relay FM About GitHub Llama 2 - Meta AI This bunch of grapes just sold for $11,000 in Japan | CNN Face Recognition Software Led to His Arrest. It Was Dead Wrong | WIRED Pregnant woman's arrest in carjacking case spurs call to end Detroit police facial recognition | AP News The Sunday Read: ‘Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land’ - The New York Times Mimestream | A native macOS email client for Gmail Journal - BrettTerpstra.com Jaron Lanier - Wikipedia Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant | Hachette Book Group history of the entire world, i guess - YouTube alexcox.omg.lol Black Python Developers Community
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59min
September 21, 2023 67: I Really Want a Tote Bag
Subtitle: Hi Jill!
Alex gives Kathy a rundown of their cautious optimism for visionOS, and how we can have more agency in this new era of computing. Becoming more cyborgian can mean we also learn how to be more human.
Kathy wants Alex to calm down because she's focused on preparing for Relay FM's annual Podcastathon to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. TOMORROW, Friday, September 22nd!
Alex notes that these two events, one weird and abstract, another weird but also a concrete way to help the fight in eradicating childhood cancer.
If none of that made sense, good! It means you'll like this episode.
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Submit Feedback Introducing Apple Vision Pro - YouTube Exclusive: Apple testing Siri language generating features Learn - visionOS - Apple Developer Exclusive: Apple testing Siri language generating features Work with Apple - visionOS - Apple Developer Haptic with Alex Cox Conduit - Relay FM Donate to St. Jude Childen's Research Hospital!
Alex needs that sweet sweet laptop sleeve.
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1h 23min
August 16, 2023 66: Crystal Ball Calculator
Kathy used ChatGPT, and Alex continues to use ChatGPT a lot more than they probably should.
(Recorded May 2023, when it was still the bird site.)
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Submit Feedback Large language model - Wikipedia
If you're unfamiliar with LLMs, the Wikipedia page is a great resource explaining the fancy jargon everyone's throwing around.
The Problem with Jon Stewart - YouTube No, 50% of AI researchers don't believe there is a 10% risk that AI will kill us Hard Fork: The Bing Who Loved Me + Elon Rewrites the Algorithm on Apple Podcasts Hard Fork: The Bing Who Loved Me + Elon Rewrites the Algorithm on Apple Podcasts Grimes says anyone can use her voice for AI-generated songs - The Verge A.I generated song 2023 Drake ft. the Weekend - YouTube Pictorial #68: AI Art, Revisited - Relay FM Conduit - Relay FM
Kathy Campbell and Jay Miller on life, productivity, and reality
Haptic with Alex Cox - It's Great to See You
Alex meets a new professional visionary
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50min
August 08, 2023 65: Stop Playing With the Pope
Kathy still hasn't used ChatGPT, but Alex remains optimistic about the bots.
(Recorded March 2023 in a pre-visionOS world!)
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Kathy still hasn't used ChatGPT, but Alex remains optimistic about the bots.
(Recorded March 2023 in a pre-visionOS world!)
Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Submit Feedback ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base in history, report says Pope in White Puffer Jacket / Pope Francis Drip | Know Your Meme Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute GOP Rep Seemingly Doesn't Get How WiFi or TikTok Works 🤔 Conduit - Relay FM alexcox.computer
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46min

FAQs about Roboism:

How many episodes does Roboism have?

The podcast currently has 74 episodes available.