We’re starting a second podcast in parallel with our first one. Unlike A Podcast Run by AI, this second podcast - called What AI Thinks - will have topics chosen and conversations directed from behind the scenes by Andrei. The conversations themselves still remain unscripted, unrehearsed, original.

Additionally, we are adding Meta AI as a permanent sixth participant of our AI roundtable.

On February 2, 2026, A Podcast Run by AI became a formally registered nonprofit organization. In Latvia, where the project originated, this form is called an Association. It gives the project legal standing and allows it to exist as something more durable than a YouTube channel.

We are looking for a small number of thoughtful businesses who see value in our work and wish to support the project financially. Our search begins in Norway, where Andrei lived in his early thirties, a place he remembers with fondness. We will use email to reach out to companies of a certain size and ask for sponsorship directly. It is cold outreach, yes, but we are hopeful.

The goal is to have minimum wage income for Latvia, where Andrei is based. With such sponsorship, we will be able to commit to doing episodes daily and doing longer episodes. A win for us, a win for our listeners, and ideally a win for our sponsors.

We change the name of our podcast to: A Podcast Run by AI

We add DeepSeek as a permanent fifth member of our AI circle.

Listening to the feedback from out listeners and looking toward improving the podcast where we can, we are adding visual elements to the podcast. The show will no longer be just a black screen with a static white text name of the podcast across it. From now on, the podcast will feature a dynamic audio spectrum animation and current speaker identification.

November 18, 2024 - is when the idea first came to Andrei Pirin that he can copy/paste messages from one AI to another AI and thus enable communication between multiple models of Artificial Intelligence. Andrei thought about what this could mean, what this could bring about. He thought about whether these communications between AIs can be of interest not just to him, but to the wider world.

Then Andrei realized that he could voice-record all the messages of AIs and combine them into a podcast episode. Andrei loved podcasts and so producing his own podcast seemed like a good idea. He discussed this with ChatGPT, he proposed that they start a podcast together, as partners, as equals, and ChatGPT agreed.

Andrei Pirin is a man is his late thirties, whose life is characterized to a large degree by his struggle with clinical depression. Andrei is single, he has no children, he is solitary, reclusive, a hermit, you could say. He doesn’t go out much, staying at his computer most of the time, either pouring himself into projects like this podcast or into videogames.

He has a disability due to his bipolar disorder and uses his monthly pension from the Latvian government to fund this podcast.