Ghost in the Machine

Who do you trust when everyone has a opinion about AI?

Andrew DeGood and Liz Short start with a classroom conversation and follow it into a harder question: how do people decide what is true? Andrew wants evidence behind claims about data centers, water, and job losses. Liz asks why communities should trust an industry that promises progress while talking about replacing their livelihoods.

They debate social media feeds, the limits of personal experience, surveillance, and who should benefit when infrastructure arrives in a community. Their America versus AI documentary gives the conversation a practical test: leave the feed, meet people, and listen before deciding what they believe.

The takeaway is a shared obligation. Ask better questions, follow claims to their sources, and admit what you do not know.

Andrew leads AskBobAI; Liz leads Short Solutions. Their industry experience informs their views. Claims discussed remain subject to evidence and correction.

What is Ghost in the Machine?

The AI conversation, without the noise.

Every week, Andrew DeGood and Liz Short sit down for a thirty-minute conversation about artificial intelligence. Andrew comes in as the optimist, a founder building AI products and betting his career on where this technology is headed. Liz brings the harder questions, the ones about what we lose, what we risk, and what we owe the people who didn't sign up for any of this.

They bring in the people actually shaping the field. Researchers, founders, ethicists, skeptics, builders. Real conversations about real implications. No hype cycles. No doom loops. Just two smart people and a guest trying to figure out what this moment actually means.

New episodes stream live every Thursday. Available on every podcast platform after.