Sitemap - 2025 - The Rip Current with Jacob Ward
Did Weed Just Escape the Culture War?
AI Has Us Lying to One Another (and It's Changing How We Think)
AI Data Centers Are Draining Our Resources — and Making Strange Political Allies
Jake on PBS: Is This the End of A.I. Laws?
AI Isn’t Just a Money Risk Anymore — It’s Bigger than That
Trump's Executive Order Gives the AI Industry What It Wants.
AI Is Even More Biased Than We Are: Mahzarin Banaji on the Disturbing Truth Behind LLMs
Australia Just Rebooted Childhood — And the World Is Watching
AI is Creating a ‘Hive Mind' — Scientists Just Proved It
Jake on CBS News: OpenAI's Fight to "Make It Irresistible"
OpenAI Declares "Code Red" — And Takes Aim at Your Brain
Big Tech Got Its Government Back
AI Distortion Is Here — And It’s Already Warping Us All
Insurers Are Backing Away From A.I.—and That Should Scare You More Than Any Sci-Fi Predictions
Open Q&A with Paid Subscribers
The Executive Order That Would End AI Regulation in America
When AI Stops Being About Jobs — and Starts Being About Us
Is America Ready to Fight Big Tech? (with Sacha Haworth)
BONUS EPISODE: Urgent Futures Podcast
Can Journalism Survive? (With UC Berkeley Journalism Dean Michael Bolden)
AI Addiction is Coming (with Zachary Gidwitz)
Brazil is an Alternate Universe (with Cristina Tardaguila)
Bonus Episode: Jake on Andrew Keen's Podcast
Is AI Pessimism Feeding the Powerful? (with Rumman Chowdhury)
Can AI Be Ethical? (with Olivia Gambelin)
BREAKING: Why Big Tech's Lawyers are Likely SCREAMING Right Now
The War Over TikTok (with Emily Baker-White)
What is AI Psychosis? (with Morten Rand-Hendricksen)
T-Minus $67 Million per Launch (with David Ariosto)
99% of Crypto is a Scam (with Molly White)
How to Be Two-Marshmallow Humans (with Aza Raskin)
How to Defeat Loneliness (with David Jay)
The Life and Death of Booze (with Adam Rogers)
The Trump Moment is Global (with Bart Bonikowski)
What It's Like on the Ground at a Protest
Reading: The All-American Surveillance System is Coming.
An Expert in Violence Explains the Path to Peace (with Lord John Alderdice)
An All-American Surveillance System Is Coming
The Battle for Your Brain (with Nita Farahany)
This is Not What Crypto Is For. And Yet It Is.
Why Tech People Hate Us Journalists (with Paris Martineau)
Bonus Reading: A.I. Wants to Steal Your Ideas. The White House Seems to Be Fine With That.
How to Kill Corruption With Technology (with President of Estonia Toomas Ilves)
AI Wants to Steal Your Ideas. And the White House Seems to Be Fine With That.
Ep 08: Addiction in America (with Keith Humphreys)
Fake Democracy Feels Better than the Real Thing
Ep 07: Legitimacy is the Best You Can Hope For (with John Patty and Elizabeth Penn)
The American Creator Economy is a Trap
Ep 06: Renee DiResta on Our Invisible Rulers and Building a Credibility Counterculture
EP 05: Lawrence Lessig on Corruption, AI, and the Need to Rethink Everything
Bonus Episode: The Tariff Hand Grenade
Ep 04: Kat Tenbarge on Misinformation, Media, and How Influencers Work You
Ep 03: Jennifer Freyd on DARVO and the Language of Betrayal
Ep 02: Historian Andrew Ward on Slavery and DEI
The Exact Moment We Gave it All to A.I.
The Rip Current Ep 01: Catherine Bracy on Venture Capital and How It's Eating the Economy
Give the AI to Scientists...Just Scientists
Do One-Person AI Companies Mean Million-Person Layoffs?
The DEI Argument is Stupid. But Here's How to Win It.
Breakdown: The Scams Headed Your Way
"Good Luck Waiting on Hold, America"
This Craziness is in Our Blood
The Rip Current Weekly Debrief // Casual destruction and Chinese AI
Efficiency Will Take, Not Give
The AI Stock Market Crash Isn't an Emergency. Here's What Is.
Why A.I. Tycoons Cannot Put America First
Trump's Easy Wins are Over. Here's What's Coming.
We Can't Live with Fire, But We Must
Lessons from 10 Years of Wildfires