The Glitchatorio: A podcast about the fallibility of AI

In 2025, I went down the AI rabbit hole. Not just in the conventional sense of "getting into something" but also, and perhaps more accurately, in the Alice-in-Wonderland sense of following the white rabbit into a strange world adjacent to daylight reality. I found AI-land to be a place where I could never quite trust my perceptions, never knew what was true -- and that was just with the research and industry ecosystem around AI. The AI models themselves I found to be even stranger. The deeper I went into the technical details the more bewildered I became. The version of AI as we now know it (ie the transformer architecture on deep learning models) is just such an unlikely technology. It shouldn't work, and yet it does. Not to mention that it shouldn't do the things that it does.

I found myself excited and confused and concerned all at the same time. So I put my journalism hat on and started a podcast. I called it The Glitchatorio because I wanted to highlight the weirdness and fallibility of AI. Only after the show name was set did I realise that it gave me the perfect host name too: The Witch of Glitch.

I loved being The Witch of Glitch and I loved my podcast. I loved interviewing people, I loved topping and tailing the episodes with musical loops in GarageBand, and I even loved making the cover art. Plus it taught me a lot about AI. So much so, that when I attended an AI bootcamp in summer 2026, I already knew most of the ML basics.

But after a year of podcasting, during which I researched, recorded and produced 22 episodes -- including 4 fictional skits that I also wrote and acted in, a creative undertaking unto itself -- I felt it was time to wind down The Glitchatorio. So while I am not creating any more new episodes, you can still listen to all of the ones I released, including the trailer, on Spotify, Apple or most other platforms where you listen to podcasts.