Machine Dreams is a weekly dive into the real world of AI. Hosts Kolawole Samuel Adebayo and Leah Stern talk with the founders, researchers, investors, engineers, and stakeholders shaping the future of intelligent machines. These are unfiltered, human conversations about what’s working in AI, what isn’t, and what might reshape the world next. From databases and infrastructure to agents, regulation, the future of work, and more, Machine Dreams brings clarity to arguably the most important tech story of our time.
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Signup to Generate a PitchMachine Dreams is a weekly dive into the real world of AI. Hosts Kolawole Samuel Adebayo and Leah Stern talk with the founders, researchers, investors, engineers, and stakeholders shaping the future of intelligent machines. These are unfiltered, human conversations about what’s working in AI, what isn’t, and what might reshape the world next.
Recent episodes include "Everyone's Worried About AI Hallucinations. This CEO Says the Silent Failures Are Worse" (29 October 2026, 17 minutes), "Why AI Companies Are Talking About Consciousness and What It Means for Business" (22 October 2026, 28 minutes), and "Everyone’s Worried AI Will Destroy Us. This Cybersecurity Pioneer Sees a Different Problem" (14 October 2026, 28 minutes).
Machine Dreams publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 19 minutes across 34 episodes.
Booking probability for Machine Dreams is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Machine Dreams requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Machine Dreams's contact route on record: verified email.
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Machine Dreams is a technology podcast with 34 episodes published.
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Episode #11
When you ask an AI a question about your company's data, it looks something up before it answers. Most of the time that works. But often it joins the wrong tables and returns an answer that looks completely reasonable...
Episode #10
Is AI really conscious? This week on Machine Dreams, Sam Adebayo and Leah Stern sit down with Andy Thurai, founder and principal analyst at The Field CTO https://thefieldcto.com/ an independent technology advisory firm...
Episode #9
Everyone is worried AI will destroy us. This week on Machine Dreams, Sam Adebayo and Leah Stern sit down with Rob T. Lee, Chief AI Officer and Chief of Research at the SANS Institute: https://www.sans.org/. Rob is known...
Episode #8
Salespeople spend most of their week on everything except selling. Research, CRM updates, meeting prep, follow-up emails. Only about a fifth of their time goes to actually talking to customers. This week on Machine...
Episode #7
Cameras used to have one job: record what happened. Now they are starting to make sense of what they see while it happens, and that raises a bigger question. What does it mean for a camera to understand? This week on...
Episode #6
Why do so many enterprise AI projects get built and then quietly abandoned? That's the question at the heart of this conversation with Yevgeniy Vahlis, co-founder and CEO of Shakudo: https://www.shakudo.io/. Before...
Episode #5
Bridges, roads and tunnels can last for generations, and engineers have spent decades photographing, inspecting and documenting how they change. In this episode of Machine Dreams, we sit down with Saar Dickman, CEO of...
Episode #4
Chris Voss spent 24 years with the FBI and became its lead international kidnapping negotiator. Today, he is the bestselling author of Never Split the Difference and founder and CEO of The Black Swan Group. In this...
Episode #3
AI is becoming more powerful, but there is still a lot we don’t fully understand about how these systems work. In this episode of Machine Dreams, we sit down with Isvari Maranwe, founder and CEO of Yuvoice, to talk...
Episode #2
AI feels instant. Ask a question, get an answer. But behind every answer is data, computing power, a choice of models, and a real cost. In this episode of Machine Dreams, Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin joins Sam...
Episode #24
AI is getting smarter. But inside real companies, intelligence alone isn't enough. If employees still have to double-check every response, correct mistakes and babysit AI agents, how much productivity are we actually...
Episode #23
<p>Gartner predicts that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027 due to escalating costs, unclear business value, and inadequate risk controls. Enterprises are building fast and failing...
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<p>What happens when your company doesn't hire one AI agent... but a thousand?</p><p>In this episode of Machine Dreams, BAND CEO Arick Goomanovsky explains why the future of enterprise AI isn't about bigger models, it's...
Episode #22
<p>The cybersecurity industry has spent decades getting better at finding vulnerabilities. Better scanners, better scoring systems, better detection. And yet breaches keep happening. The problem isn't discovery anymore...
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<p>AI is about to flood cybersecurity with vulnerabilities, and most companies are nowhere near ready for what comes next.</p><p>In this episode of Machine Dreams, Tonic Security co-founder and cybersecurity veteran...
Episode #21
<p>AI agents are being deployed across enterprises faster than security teams can track them. Employees aren't waiting for approval. They're spinning up agents connected to Salesforce, HubSpot, and the most sensitive...
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<p>AI agents are already inside companies making decisions, accessing sensitive systems, and moving faster than most security teams can track. But here’s the real question: who’s actually governing them?</p><p>In this...
Episode #20
<p>AI agents are already deployed across enterprises. They touch company data, hold permissions, and perform actions on behalf of employees. But most organizations have no visibility into what these digital workers are...
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<p>AI agents are already operating inside enterprises. They're touching company data, performing actions, and working on behalf of employees. But most organizations have no visibility into what these digital workers are...
Episode #19
<p>Security teams are buried. Alerts pile up faster than analysts can triage them. Investigations take days or weeks. By the time threats get contained, the damage is done. Meanwhile, adversaries are starting to use AI...
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