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Your go-to self-educational platform that helps navigating the AI era – with a special focus on the fields of UX design, societal topics and ethical development.
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Kinokast helps you develop the inner wisdom to navigate a world shaped by AI—or as the Historian and academic Yuval Noah Harari calls it, “Alien Intelligence without the Science Fiction” (November 2025). Founded and run by Jerome Bertrand with the motto ‘Mentoring the mentor in you‘.
At the heart: ai:Pods (AI interactive podcasts) transform passionately curated research into practical insights on vital topics contextualizing AI and UX design today.
Themes: AI & UX Design • Tech • Culture • Science • Philosophy • Life
The offer:
- ai:Pods: Free interactive audio conversations with purely fictitious AI hosts Aiko & Blaise (Based on the free Google NotebookLM)
- Coaching & Mentoring: Personal guidance for integrating AI into UX design & thinking
- Educational Resources: Study guides and blog posts for deeper context
- Community: Global network for collaboration
Mission: Empower UX designers to create ethical, human-centered AI designs through continuous learning.
For whom? UX designers, teams, and anyone embracing a human-first, life-first approach to AI and design.
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ai:Pods Listing
Late update: 2025
The following list presents the available ai:Pods from the kinokast platform in descending order (newest first), primarily drawing from the latest content modules and blog listings available in the sources.
Note: This list may be unsynced, as ai:Pods are typically published first on my blog articles and the main listing is updated gradually. Some missing numbers correspond to yet unpublished ai:Pods.
ai:Pods typically come in two flavours:
AI, UX design, Educational
Cultural, Societal, Sciences, Life
| ai:Pod Number | Publication Date | Title & Core Focus (Color Topic: Blue or Purple) | Relevant Interactive Link/Access |
|---|---|---|---|
ai:Pod 055 Purple | December 15, 2025 | The Alien Intelligence: AI Weapons, Human Exploitation, and a New Wisdom Mandate for 2026 ! (what is AI-AGI-ASI?) The reality, as it is rapidly unfolding into 2026, is far more complex to grasp, learn about, let alone teach, contradictory, and stranger than either of these visions. This ai:Pod cuts through the noise to reveal some of the most surprising, counter-intuitive, and impactful realities of AI that are happening right now. Based on recent serious research and reporting, these truths challenge our core assumptions about what this technology is and where it is leading us. Discover the true nature of the so-called AI revolution. | NotebookLM 055 ai:Pod (Multilingual English, French, Dutch, German; English Interactive Voice Chat available. additional Russian, Chinese and Arabic) |
ai:Pod 051 Blue | November 26, 2025 | The 2026 AI Paradigm Shift: From Scaling to Generalization and Continual Learning (Ilyia Sutskever, 2025). Core Focus (Blue/UX, Education): Explains the end of the “Age of Scaling” and the pivot toward solving AI’s core problem: its poor ability to generalize, introducing the new goal of a “superintelligent 15-year-old” that learns on the job. | NotebookLM access (Interactive learning available) |
| ai:Pod 050 Purple | November 20, 2025 | Nothing artificial about AI! Linguistic Vulnerability: Data Leaks & Dis-education. Core Focus (Blue/UX, Education): Reveals that AI’s core strength, language, is also its biggest flaw, making it vulnerable to manipulation and highlighting the need to move beyond static content toward “world models” and “spatial intelligence”. | NotebookLM ai:Pod 050 (English Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 046 Purple | November 7, 2025 | Normal Accidents, Performance vs Robustness: Hamant, Zucman & Perrow. Core Focus (Purple/Life, Science): Advocates for shifting design principles away from risky “performance” (efficiency) toward “robustness” (redundancy and diversity) to ensure long-term survival against systemic fragility. | NotebookLM 046 ai:Pod (Multilingual English, French, Dutch, English Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 045 Blue | November 1, 2025 | AI’s Impact on Security, Education, and Your User Experience Design Career. Core Focus (Blue/AI, UX Design): Addresses the obsolescence of legacy university degrees and the need to pivot to strategic oversight (like judging usability) where humans excel. Also covers AI’s Achilles’ Heel—the non-scaling security flaw where as few as 250 poisoned documents can compromise massive models. | NotebookLM 045 ai:Pod (Interactive learning available) |
| ai:Pod 042 Purple | October 24, 2025 | Decoding the Fiscal Class War: Wealth, Doxa, and Joyful Critique, Bourdieu, Zucman. Core Focus (Purple/Sociology, Economics, Life): Discusses wealth, power, and the fiscal class war in 2025. | NotebookLM 042 ai:Pod |
| ai:Pod 041 Blue | October 23, 2025 | The Political Economy of AI Control and Social exploitation. Core Focus (Blue/AI, Science): Reveals the “GenAI Divide” (95% of pilots fail), AI’s reliance on a hidden, exploited workforce, and the ethical crisis of the Automation Paradox. | NotebookLM 041 ai:Pod (Interactive learning available) |
| ai:Pod 039 Purple | October 17, 2025 | France’s Political Crisis: 4 Not-So-Shocking Truths in 2025. Core Focus (Purple/Political, Life): Analysis of France’s political crisis, featuring academics like Lordon and Stiegler on failing neoliberalism. | Full 039 ai:Pod NotebookLM (Interactive Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 035 Purple | October 14, 2025 | How to fight fascism in 2025 (Political Sciences). Core Focus (Purple/Political, Sciences, Life): Explores five radical ideas reshaping power, work, and politics. | Full 035 ai:Pod NotebookLM (English Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 034 Blue | September 18, 2025 | Designing the user experience for Human Agentic Interaction. Core Focus (Blue/UX, AI): Provides practical guidance for designing collaborative AI systems that empower users, handle errors gracefully, and build genuine trust (Human Agentic Interaction). | Full 034 ai:Pod NotebookLM (English Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 030 Blue | September 10, 2025 | The Fragile Architecture of Trust: Humanity’s Organic Shield Against AI’s Radical Unintelligence. Core Focus (Blue/AI, Science): Examines AI as “Alien Intelligence” that is inherently unpredictable and untrustworthy, requiring human trust as an “organic shield”. | Full 030 ai:Pod NotebookLM (English Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 029 Blue | September 9, 2025 | Education is Just Human Survival; The Cognitive Debt of Learning with AI (MIT) Long Play. Core Focus (Blue/AI, Societal): Discusses the commodification of education, potential replacement of human teachers, and the risk of superficial learning due to AI implementation, based on recent MIT research. | Full 029 ai:Pod NotebookLM (English Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 028 Blue | August 28, 2025 | AI and Your Brain resilience – Navigating Technology and Human Connection. Core Focus (Blue/AI, Science): Focuses on maintaining cognitive agency and fighting cognitive decline caused by reduced cognitive load (“use it or lose it”) by advocating for active interaction with AI. | Full 028 ai:Pod NotebookLM (English Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 027 Purple | July 29, 2025 | Gaza Conflict: AI Big Tech Profitable Genocide. Core Focus (Purple): Topic is related to the Gaza Conflict and AI. | NotebookLM access |
| ai:Pod 026 Blue | Aug 2025 | AI Understanding intelligence, with pioneer Geoffrey Hinton. Core Focus (Blue/AI, UX): Explores AI’s superior cognitive capabilities (knowledge, rapid learning, creativity) versus current human advantages (interviewing CEOs, plumbing). | Full 026 ai:Pod NotebookLM (English Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 025 Blue | Undated | The AI Black Box Escapes Us: Conversational Risks and Control. Core Focus (Blue/AI, UX): Discusses conversational risks and control concerning the AI Black Box. | Full 025 ai:Pod NotebookLM (English Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 022 Purple | Undated | Europe’s wooden language of ‘Mediocracy’. Core Focus (Purple/Culture, Political): Explores language, power, and disorientation in the age of ‘Mediocracy’. | Full 022 ai:Pod NotebookLM (English Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 021 Blue | June 2025 | Interactive chat Quiz: AI User Personas?. Core Focus (Blue/UX): A chat quiz focused on UX design fundamentals and AI personas. | Interactive chat Quiz ai:Pod 021 NotebookLM |
| ai:Pod 020 Blue | Undated | Design planning: Fairytale Framework Strategy. Core Focus (Blue/UX): Focuses on the Fairytale Framework for strategic UX design planning. | Full 020 ai:Pod NotebookLM (English Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 019 Blue | Undated | Reflexive AI Personas Trajectories 2025-2027. Core Focus (Blue/AI, UX): Discusses reflexive AI personas, indispensable human skills, and the pivotal moment approaching where AI may become our ally or greatest challenge. | NotebookLM Audio chat |
| ai:Pod 018 Blue | Undated | E-learning – Maths Hurdles to AI development. Core Focus (Blue/AI, Tech): Explores the mathematical obstacles hindering AI’s progress toward human-level understanding, including the need for “World Models”. | NotebookLM access (Interactive research with Voice chat) |
| ai:Pod 017 Blue | March 2025 | Adapting to Declining UX design ROI. Core Focus (Blue/UX Business): Discusses the evolving value of UX and adapting to declining Return On Investment (ROI) in the age of AI. | NotebookLM access (Interactive mode Audio Overview) |
| ai:Pod 016 Purple | Undated | The Noosphere – Artificial Revolution of Intelligence. Core Focus (Purple/AI, Culture): Focuses on the “Noosphere” concept and AI governance. | Full 016 ai:Pod NotebookLM (English Voice Chat available) |
| ai:Pod 014 Purple | January 2025 | Psychoanalysis Revisited 2025, discussing the book “Pulsions” by Lordon & Lucbert. Core Focus (Purple/Life, Science): Exploration of French Psychoanalysis and social consequences from 2025 onwards. | NotebookLM access (Interactive mode Audio Overview Audio chat) |
| ai:Pod 013 Blue | Undated | AI & UX – design considerations workshop. Core Focus (Blue/AI, UX): Provides practical guidance on designing systems that foster human-AI collaboration. | ai:Pod 013 Interactive AI Workshop NotebookLM |
| ai:Pod 012 Blue | Undated | Art & Human Resistance to AI. Core Focus (Blue/AI, Art): The theme relates to human resistance to AI, trust, bias, and AI-human collaboration. | NotebookLM access |
| ai:Pod 011 Purple | Undated | Selective memory and history of French wars. Core Focus (Purple/Culture): Focuses on selective memory and military heritage. | NotebookLM access |
| ai:Pod 010 Purple | Undated | Confronting Cultural Memory & Current Politics. Core Focus (Purple/Culture): Discusses reclaiming history and shaping the future of politically aware AI and UX design. | NotebookLM access |
| ai:Pod 009 Purple | Undated | Nazism’s Enduring Legacy in 2025. Core Focus (Purple/Political): Readings of French historian Professor Johann Chapoutot on the history of Nazism. | NotebookLM access |
| ai:Pod 008 Blue | Undated | AI and UX design Fundamentals 2025. Core Focus (Blue/AI, UX): Covers the fundamentals of AI and UX design in 2025. | NotebookLM access |
| ai:Pod 007 Purple | Undated | Vice and virtue of Neoliberalism (Philosopher Dany-Robert Dufour). Core Focus (Purple/Culture): Discusses Dany-Robert Dufour’s critique of neoliberalism, tracing its roots to Mandeville and the concept of “Private Vices, Public Virtues”. | NotebookLM access |
| ai:Pod 006 Blue | Undated | Generative Agents and Interactive Simulacra – Research: a AI Happy Valentine’s day party (2023). Core Focus (Blue/Tech): Research on generative agents and interactive simulacra of human behavior. | NotebookLM research |
| ai:Pod 005 Blue | Undated | UX design and AI Integration. Core Focus (Blue/UX): A starter ai:Pod discussing the timeline of UX design and AI integration. | NotebookLM access |
| ai:Pod 004 Purple | December 2024 | Perverse Neoliberalism with Dufour. Core Focus (Purple/Life, Societal): Discusses “Perveristy in Liberalism” based on an Elucid.media interview. | NotebookLM access |
| ai:Pod 003 Blue New Year 2025 | Undated | Haippy 20.25 & Gemini 2.0 agentic AI!. Core Focus (Blue): Focuses on the 2025 new year greeting and the announcement of Gemini 2.0 changes. | Audio only |
| ai:Pod 002 Blue | Undated | AI Sentience 2035 – UX design Ruptures & Guidelines. Core Focus (Blue/AI, UX): Discusses AI sentience guidelines and societal rupture implications. | NotebookLM access (Speak 002 v1 or v2) |
| ai:Pod 001 Blue | Undated | The elephant in the room and the lowest hanging fruit.. Core Focus (Blue/AI, UX): Introduction to designing UX with AI. | Audio only (Speak ai:Pod -001) |
| ai:Pod 001a TEST Blue | November 2024 | Very first aiPod testing. Core Focus (Blue/AI, UX): Testing AI personas Aiko and Blaise for text-to-video capabilities. | Video links (Aiko & Blaise Converse 000) |