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We try to make sense of the world, one question at a time. No question too big, no question too small.Hosted by PJ Vogt, edited by Sruthi Pinnamaneni. Named one of the best podcasts of all time by Time Magazine

Website ↗ Last published 29 October 2026 155 posts collected by Sputnik

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“We were watching the demonstration and she turned to the woman who was running the demo and she just said, Do you think this is cool? And the woman shrugged her shoulders and said, I'll let you decide for yourself and walked away. And in that moment, I realized that there was an open secret at this company that the technology did not exist.” — Tyler Schultz, Search Engine
Tyler Schultz · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“They gave her so much power. They gave her so much money. They gave her so much credibility, and they did not do their diligence. And on paper, the people who gave her $100 million checks are the victims. I think they are part of the problem.” — Tyler Schultz, Search Engine
Tyler Schultz · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“When a software product fails, the user sees that it failed… It's not like Apple has backup fake information statically held on the iPhone that it starts throwing at you so that you think that it worked when it didn't… But with a medical diagnostic test, the user has no idea if the result they got is accurate or not. There's no way that the user has the ability to hold the company accountable.” — Tyler Schultz, Search Engine
Tyler Schultz · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It sounds like what you're describing is actually not a problem that gets solved. It's a problem that gets managed. Like it sounds like it is just probably a going forward fact of American life that sometimes if you work at a large enough company that uses enough remote workers, the person who's troubleshooting something for you or the job application you're reading just is not who you thought it was.” — PJ Vogt, Search Engine
PJ Vogt · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The first employee that he realizes was suspicious, it came to his attention because they pretended that they were in Japan. And at some point, they said that there was an earthquake. And so they missed a meeting. And this company founder, he looks up Earthquakes Tokyo… And there was no earthquake that day. … And then the guy comes back eventually. I think he took a day or two off of work and he just had a completely different accent.” — Sam Kessler, Search Engine
Sam Kessler · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I used ChatGPT for the first time on the day it was launched, I think, November 30th, 2022. And I instantly was like, oh my God, my career is over.” — Stephen Witt, Search Engine
Stephen Witt · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The law was actually a law from the CEO of Intel to his employees: you better make this happen. This is the law. This better happen because our whole business model is based on it.” — Stephen Witt, Search Engine
Stephen Witt · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Fei-Fei Li, who ran the competition, when she heard a neural network had won the image recognition competition, and not just won it but crushed it, her words were: it was like learning that the land speed record had been broken by 100 miles an hour by somebody driving a Honda Civic.” — Stephen Witt, Search Engine
Stephen Witt · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I have to be vigilant about a part of myself that I do not understand who wants things I don't agree with and who I can't kill. … If I try to kill him, all I'm doing is putting him in like a ninja suit.” — PJ Vogt, Search Engine
PJ Vogt · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I had always thought of my drinking as a failure of will. And what if it was actually a failure of attention?” — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Search Engine
Meghan O'Gieblyn · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Search Engine is hosted by PJ Vogt , Sruthi Pinnamaneni and Garrett Graham .

Recent Episodes

  1. 29 Oct 2026

    What it’s like when Elizabeth Holmes decides to destroy your life

    With Tyler Schultz

  2. 23 Oct 2026

    Is your new co-worker secretly North Korean?

    With Sam Kessler

  3. 16 Oct 2026

    One man could slow down AI. He won’t. Why?

    With Stephen Witt

  4. 9 Oct 2026

    Unreliable Narrator

    With Meghan O'Gieblyn

  5. 2 Oct 2026

    Vladimir Putin's Forkiverse

    With Casey Newton

  6. 29 Sep 2026

    Search Engine x Better in Person

    With Stephen Dubner , Bjarke Ingels , Rachel Wilkins , Norain Chang and Keysy Tucker

  7. 18 Sep 2026

    Bollywood Dreams

  8. 11 Sep 2026

    Why’s everybody going to Japan?

    With Roland Kelts and W. David Marx

  9. 28 Aug 2026

    The Killing of the Gaza Chef

    With Tim Howard and Map Elisai

  10. 21 Aug 2026

    The Chosen One

    With Lane Rasberry

  11. 11 Aug 2026

    A road trip through the data center debate

    With Jenna Weisberman , Jasmine Sun and Adam Schultz

  12. 6 Aug 2026

    The machines are learning… to do crimes?

    With Casey Newton , Deepa Seetharaman , Thomas Wolf and Sam Altman

Guests

Casey Newton (7 episodes), Kelefa Sanneh (5 episodes), Ezra Klein (4 episodes), Gideon Lewis-Kraus (2 episodes), A.J. Daulerio (2 episodes), Antoni Porowski (2 episodes), Jesse Eisinger (2 episodes), Hannah Goldfield (2 episodes), Zvika Krieger (2 episodes), Ryan Broderick (2 episodes), Craig Finn (2 episodes), David Charles Sloane (2 episodes), and 68 more.