?Keeping up with tech news in this day and age can be overwhelming. If Silicon Valley headlines are at the top of your radar — especially AI ones — tuning into Wired’s very own weekly podcast Uncanny Valley will certainly keep you in the loop. Hosted by the magazine’s Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond alongside reporters Lauren Goode and Michael Calore, the podcast delves into analyses of tech phenomena, unraveling their significant implications on our everyday lives.

Industry insiders and experts join as guests for most episodes, especially on Friday’s Wired Roundup episodes with prominent tech journalist Zoe Schiffer, director of business and industry at Wired, who shares her own insights during these conversations. Their episodes range from AI discussions to tech and politics crossovers and feuds between influential figures — and even the latest tidbits about Elon Musk.

The dark corners of Silicon Valley. In one of their most exciting episodes titled How to NotDie in Silicon Valley, the podcast’s hosts look deep into Silicon Valley’s obsession with immortality and the unnerving extents they go to to prolong their lives using technology. The episode spotlights Bryan Johnson, a prominent personality in the health and tech sector. It details the extreme lengths he has taken to bypass aging and promote health optimization, spending around USD 2 mn a year on efforts to “live forever,” with one of those efforts being blood plasma exchanges with his teenage son.

Johnson’s ludicrous health treatments link to an overarching, heavily funded pursuit of longevity and disease prevention in the industry with AI unsurprisingly spearheading that movement. The hosts mention experiments such as Google’s Verily, a life sciences and AI-driven organization for precision health, and Jeff Bezos’s investment in Altos Labs, a biotechnology company that focuses on anti-aging therapies. In that vein, the hosts also explore altruism versus ego as the driving forces behind these far-reaching goals, criticizing some of these figures for not being realistic and “playing God” as they attempt to delay the obvious.

This compelling deep-dive and so many others are what Uncanny Valley brings to their listeners. Blending latest tech efforts and larger philosophical and general implications, the hosts keep you engaged in every episode through their light banter and witty insights.

WHERE TO LISTEN- You can listen to Uncanny Valley on Wired | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | iHeart | Amazon Music.

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