Mostly Human is a weekly podcast that explores technology through the most important lens: the human one. Hosted by award-winning tech journalist Laurie Segall, the immersive interview and investigative show tackles some of the defining questions of our time with headline-making tech titans and the people you don't know yet, but should. Mostly Human will leave you with a sense of agency over fear, and a clearer view of how tech can actually work for you.
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When OpenAI invited a group of lifestyle influencers to a pastoral upstate New York retreat for beekeeping and brand-building, the internet exploded. Tech journalist Taylor Lorenz has been tracking the backlash and says the fury is less about AI than it is about the broader cultural moment. In this conversation, Laurie Segall and Taylor dig into who really controls the AI narrative, the growing…
Johnny Ayers has a front-row seat to the scam economy most of us never see. As founder and CEO of Socure - the identity verification platform behind billions of fraud checks a year - he's watched fraud evolve from stolen passwords to something much stranger: An influx of North Korean operatives holding remote U.S. tech jobs under fake identities, deepfakes convincing enough to fool a hiring…
Tech journalist Manoush Zomorodi has spent her career studying what technology does to our minds. Now, in her new book Body Electric , she's examining our bodies. On this episode, host Laurie Segall sits down with Manoush to talk about the negative affects our screens and the sedentary life of the 'information worker' is doing to our bodies. But she also shares the solution and the study she…
Ami Gan was tired of social media; tired of the doomscrolling, of not seeing her friends' posts, of feeling less connected and more performative. So, the former OnlyFans CEO created her own social media platform, called Vylit. Inspired by the lessons learned from OnlyFans and what social media promised to be, Vylit is an 18+ social platform with creator tools that promises to redefine how people…
This week, we're sharing a recent episode of On with Kara Swisher. Kara hosts a panel of experts - including Laurie Segall, victims rights attorney Carrie Goldberg, and computer scientist V.S. Subrahmanian -to discuss the growing threat and current reality of sexually explicit deepfakes. The guests talk about the current scope of the problem, the technology behind it, the communities that rally…
A note to listeners: This is Part 4 of a 4-part series. If you have not yet listened to Searching for Mr. Deepfakes Part 1 , Part 2 , or Part 3 please start there. Laurie Segall and her team have a new resolve for the investigation into Mr. Deepfakes. This unchartered path takes them to surprising places, with unexpected allies. Laurie shares some big, personal news and the thing the team has been…
A note to listeners: The 4th and final installment of Searching for Mr. Deepfakes will be released on July 9th. The AI revolution is here. It's a part of every facet of our lives - or at least trying to be - from work, to dating, from parenting to how we spend our free time. But is life so much better when we let AI in? Joanna Stern, longtime tech journalist and author of I Am Not a Robot , went…
A note to listeners: This is Part 3 of a 4-part series. If you have not yet listened to Searching for Mr. Deepfakes Part 1 or 2 , please start there. Laurie Segall and her investigative team return from Canada and dive into the real-world and online clues they recovered from their trip. As they dive deep into who this person is they find some surprising details. They return to Canada one last time…
A note to listeners: This is Part 2 of a 4-part series. If you have not yet listened to Searching for Mr. Deepfakes Part 1, please start there. After officially launching an investigation into the anonymous person behind Mr. Deepfakes - the largest deepfake pornography site on the internet - using good-guy hackers and a call-out on social media to see if anybody out there knows anything, Laurie…
When journalist Laurie Segall first stumbled upon Mr. Deepfakes - the largest deepfake pornography site on the internet, with an estimated 17 million monthly visitors at its peak - she couldn't shake one question: who was the anonymous man behind it? In part one of this four-part investigative series, Laurie introduces us to Joanne Chew, an LA-based artist and actor who discovered hundreds of…
