Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker investigate how AI is transforming our relationships, from best friends to husbands and wives and even therapists, the death spiral of the global media and whether it’s AI to blame, and how Keir Starmer is attempting to influence the influencers.

This includes an interview with the author James Muldoon, whose new book Love Machines looks at how AI is changing relationships (you can buy his book here: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571399277-love-machines/)

We also discuss the “death spiral” of journalism and the media industry, which executives still seem to underestimate despite the bleak outlook; Westminster finally catching up with the influence of influencers; and how David Attenborough is the secret victim of a Reddit bug.

Keywords: technology, podcast, economics, AI, big tech, UK technology, democracy, social media

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Crashed is the tech podcast about everything else,

Today, hosts Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker discuss whether the controversy around Grok (Groktroversy if you will) and AI-editing images is really the beginning for real regulation, the end of X, or both?

They also discuss British politicians playing with AI sandboxes, and all the latest updates from CES.

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Keywords: technology, podcast, economics, AI, big tech, UK technology, democracy, social media

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Welcome to Crashed, the podcast about how tech is at the centre of everything, whether that be economics, politics, philosophy, ethics, community, law, religion, education, or literally anything else.

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker take a second over Christmas to thank everyone for listening across the first 10 episodes of a ridiculous experiment before fobbing listeners off by not recording an original episode for Christmas Day and instead looking back at the best bits of the pilot phase of the podcast.

We'll be back next week with a cracking episode of 2026 predictions.

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Keywords: technology, podcast, economics, AI, big tech, UK technology, democracy, social meda

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Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker discuss whether a MAGA whisperer will become US ambassador for the sake of a tech deal, our reflections on whether anything actually happened in 2025, and whether there are any politicians who aren’t working for an AI firm.

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Keywords: technology, podcast, economics, AI, big tech, UK technology, democracy, social meda, 2026 predictions

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Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker decide whether Australia banning social media for children under 16 is a good or bad thing, whether “fascion” right wing fashion means that fascism is inevitable, and if under 10% of the world’s population living in free democracies means that everything is doomed.

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Keywords: technology, podcast, economics, AI, fascism, big tech, UK technology, fashion, democracy, social media

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What happens when all music is automated? When all our currency is on the blockchain? When all the tech companies own everything?

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker unpack whether a single crypto bro can be responsible for the Bitcoin crash, if music really can be automated, and whetehr the overreporting of the reactions to the AI bubble could make the bubble popping more likely.

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Keywords: technology, podcast, economics, AI, cryptocurrency, music production, big tech, UK pension funds, Bitcoin, ransomware

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves only mentioned AI once and didn’t mention quantum at all in the Budget. Why? Wasn’t quantum meant to be a shining light for British innovation? Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel Walker explain why.

Also, we’re joined by Dr. Carolina Are and Maedb Joy to discuss what campaigners are calling “the digital erasure of queer communities” across Instagram, Facebook and even WhatsApp. What does that meant for creators and wider society?

Finally, who wins the AI chip race? NVidia? Google? A company we haven’t heard of? All will become (slightly more) clear.

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Keywords: algorithm overreach, Meta policies, creator challenges, censorship, communication, social media, content creation, algorithm learning, algo speak

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