Ghost in the Machine

Andrew DeGood spent thirty minutes trying to sell Liz Short on the optimist case for AI. By the end she conceded most of it.
Five futures, all inside ten years. Biotech that crosses the "one year and one day" line where life expectancy improves faster than you age. Energy that goes near-free as fusion catches up and AI rewrites the grid. Knowledge becoming a commodity once an expert lives in everyone's pocket. The smartphone retiring in favor of smart glasses with AR overlays and continuous context. And the answer to the loneliness epidemic that nobody is comfortable talking about until they have an aging parent who is alone.
Andrew closes on why optimism is not naive. If you only talk about the doom, you build the doom. Episode 4 is Liz's turn to push back.

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.