Ted Chiang

Mentioned in 7 analyzed podcast episodes across 6 shows

A science fiction author whose work is frequently referenced in discussions about technology, AI, and philosophy. His stories—including "Story of Your Life" and "Exhalation"—explore concepts like human agency, consciousness, causality, and the relationship between technology and society, making them touchstones for conversations about AI development, mechanistic interpretability, and the future of work.

Appears On

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer Moonshots with Peter Diamandis StarTalk Radio Capitalisn't

Episode Appearances

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · Apr 8, 2026

Lily Brooks-Dalton : Ruins

“Contributed to Between the Covers bonus audio archive; author of short story Omphalos exploring time and archaeology.”

Narrative Structure and Plot ArchitectureSlow Reveals and Spoiler Management in FictionCharacter Development Without Redemption Arcs

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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Apr 2, 2026

Moonlake: Causal World Models should be Multimodal, Interactive, and Efficient — with Chris Manning and Fan-yun Sun

“Science fiction writer example of consistent world modeling by changing one variable”

World Models and Causal ReasoningMultimodal AI Integration (Vision, Audio, Text, Physics)Action-Conditioned Video Generation

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Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer · Feb 24, 2026

AI Won’t Decide the Future of Work—We Will (with David Autor)

“Science fiction writer quoted: 'Fear of technology is not fear of machines, it's fear of capitalism'”

AI Augmentation vs. Automation StrategyLabor Market Power and Wage DeterminationDemographic Transition and Labor Scarcity

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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Feb 18, 2026

OpenAI Acquires OpenClaw, 400x Cost Collapse, & Why India Wins the Talent War | EP #231

“Science fiction author; referenced for thought experiments on perfect prediction and human agency”

AI Model Benchmarking and EvaluationCost Reduction in Frontier ModelsPhysics and Mathematics Problem Solving by AI

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StarTalk Radio · Feb 13, 2026

Cosmic Queries – Quantum Consciousness with Charles Liu

“Science fiction author whose story 'Story of Your Life' explores block universe and retrocausality concepts”

Quantum Physics FundamentalsDark Energy and Cosmological ConstantsQuantum Entanglement and Non-locality

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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Feb 6, 2026

The First Mechanistic Interpretability Frontier Lab — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell of Goodfire AI

“Science fiction author whose work inspires AI interpretability thinking, wrote 'Exhalation'”

Mechanistic InterpretabilityModel Steering and ControlSparse Autoencoders (SAEs)

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Capitalisn't · Oct 16, 2025

What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About AI, with Arvind Narayanan

“Quoted for insight that fears about new technologies are often really fears about capitalism and benefit redistribution”

AI Bubble Risk and Economic ImpactAI Deployment vs. Development SpeedBenchmark Gaming and Real-World AI Performance

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