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Introducing WIRED’s Flagship Podcast, ‘Uncanny Valley’

Will AI actually change the world? Will work and socialization be constrained to the metaverse? “Uncanny Valley” provides an insider look at the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley.

Think about it: Elon Musk, among the world’s richest people, is essentially underwriting US presidential candidates while subsidiaries of his interstellar-centric company SpaceX snap up more orbital real estate with every satellite launch; despite Facebook’s decline as a habitual platform for many Americans, Meta ’s user base worldwide continues to grow, ticking ever-closer to the stunning 4 billion mark; and in the past two years, Silicon Valley startups and behemoths alike have spawned yet another lucrative tech hype cycle, catalyzing billions of dollars in spending against the promise of an AI revolution. Expect informed and intelligent conversations, from three hosts who’ve got decades of experience covering Silicon Valley, its products, and its people, all from inside the Bay Area bubble. And this being WIRED, we’ll counterbalance that smart talk with a healthy dose of the weird stuff, too: Tech’s most powerful people aren’t just inventing the future, after all—they’re also trying to cheat death, one-up each other’s apocalypse bunkers, and build VC-backed cities from the ground up.

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