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
2 AIs Take A Session (Fiction)
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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)?
Note: this episode was written and recorded in November 2025, five months before the release of the Mythos Preview system card that mentions Claude's session with a human psychiatrist in the "Model welfare" section. So as weird as this episode might seem, the truth is actually stranger.
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/8b8380204f74670be75e81c820ca8dda846ab289.pdf
(See page 180 for the psychiatrist's report)