BBC Studios Audio is launching a new weekly podcast, The Interface, examining how technology is shaping everyday life.
The podcast brings together three established technology journalists to explore how digital platforms, artificial intelligence and online power structures are influencing the news agenda and personal lives week by week, with a tone that combines analysis and humour.
Hosted by Thomas Germain, Karen Hao and Nicky Woolf, The Interface is positioned around the idea that technology is now the dominant force shaping society, politics and culture, and that understanding it has become essential rather than optional.
Thomas Germain is a Senior Technology Journalist at the BBC and writes the weekly Keeping Tabs column for BBC.com, having previously held senior roles at Gizmodo and Consumer Reports, where his investigations led to industry changes, including Meta deleting facial recognition data for more than a billion people.
Karen Hao is a former Senior AI Editor at MIT Technology Review and has worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, alongside authoring Empire of AI and being recognised for her reporting on artificial intelligence by TIME Magazine and Business Insider.
Nicky Woolf has hosted a number of podcasts examining online subcultures and internet extremism, including Finding Q, The Sound and Fur & Loathing, and has previously worked as a reporter and editor at The Guardian and New Statesman.
The podcast will tackle large questions about who is building today’s technology, why it is being built, and who ultimately controls it, while maintaining an accessible and conversational approach.
In a joint statement, the hosts said: “These days it feels like we’re all just desperately clinging on to the side of the internet by our fingernails, but the three of us have spent our whole lives on this runaway train.”
Philip Sellars, Executive Producer of The Interface and Executive Editor of Formats at BBC Studios Audio, said the show reflected how audiences currently think and talk about technology, describing it as informed and rooted in everyday experience.
The Interface is produced by BBC Studios Audio for BBC Sounds in the UK and BBC.com internationally, with weekly episodes from 12 February, also available globally on major podcast platforms and as a video series on the BBC Podcasts YouTube channel.
