{"slug": "dragoncatcher-dream-machines-revs-up", "title": "Dragoncatcher: Dream Machines revs up", "summary": "KQED has released the first episode of its podcast miniseries Dream Machines, hosted by Alexis Madrigal and Annalee Newitz, with guest Annalee Newitz. The series explores AI and other minds, with additional episodes to be released throughout the month.", "body_md": "[Dream Machines revs up](/lab/dream-machines/)\n\nI’m on the road, so just posting a quick link: here is [the first episode of KQED’s Dream Machines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8FdJur2RJ4), the podcast miniseries about AI hosted by me and Alexis Madrigal! Our guest is Annalee Newitz, speaking here as perhaps the world’s foremost imaginer of other minds, and also a great, iconic San Franciscan.\n\nI am both a friend [and superfan](/newsletters/voice-across-the-water/) of Alexis, so the opportunity to collaborate with him on this project has been such a delight. The process has basically been, we take the content of our text threads out of the Messages app, into the podcast studio. And I’m very proud of the fact that this is a KQED production —\n\nI’ll have more to say about the project and its intentions, possibly in my next newsletter. KQED will release several more episode over the course of this month —\n\n[To the blog home page](/lab/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dragoncatcher-dream-machines-revs-up", "canonical_source": "https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/dream-machines/", "published_at": "2026-08-14 10:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-14 16:08:27.733451+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["KQED", "Alexis Madrigal", "Annalee Newitz", "Dream Machines"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dragoncatcher-dream-machines-revs-up", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dragoncatcher-dream-machines-revs-up.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dragoncatcher-dream-machines-revs-up.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dragoncatcher-dream-machines-revs-up.jsonld"}}