What does getting older actually feel like? This week, Oz and Karah discuss MIT Researchers who are using technology to simulate aging. Then, Oz tells the story of an activist who used China’s surveillance state as a form of protest. Karah dives deep into the weird world of humans quietly training chatbots. And finally, on Chat and Me, is replacing your therapist with ChatGPT a good idea? 

 

Also, we want to hear from you: If you’ve used a chatbot in a surprising or delightful (or deranged) way, send us a 1–2 minute voice note at techstuffpodcast@gmail.com.

Sources:

My Day as an 80-Year-Old. What an Age-Simulation Suit Taught Me.

She Sacrificed Her Youth to Get the Tech Bros to Grow Up

A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China’s Surveillance State

Inside the lucrative, surreal, and disturbing world of AI trainers

Sam Altman, Tim Cook, and other tech leaders lauded Trump at a White House AI dinner

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

AirPods Pro 3 arrive with heart-rate sensing and live translation using Apple Intelligence

What does getting older actually feel like? This week, Oz and Karah discuss MIT Researchers who are using technology to simulate aging. Then, Oz tells the story of an activist who used China&rsquo;s surveillance state as a form of protest. Karah dives deep into the weird world of humans quietly training chatbots. And finally, on Chat and Me, is replacing your therapist with ChatGPT a good idea?&nbsp;
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Also, we want to hear from you: If you&rsquo;ve used a chatbot in a surprising or delightful (or deranged) way, send us a 1&ndash;2 minute voice note at <a href="mailto:techstuffpodcast@gmail.com">techstuffpodcast@gmail.com</a>.
Sources:
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/mit-age-simulation-suit-678afa33">My Day as an 80-Year-Old. What an Age-Simulation Suit Taught Me.</a>
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/patricia-moore-sacrificed-youth-to-get-tech-bros-to-grow-up/">She Sacrificed Her Youth to Get the Tech Bros to Grow Up</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/business/china-chongqing-protest.html">A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China&rsquo;s Surveillance State</a>
<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com./ai-training-jobs-data-annotators-labelers-outlier-scale-meta-xai-2025-9">Inside the lucrative, surreal, and disturbing world of AI trainers</a>
<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com./whos-who-tech-leaders-attended-dinner-white-house-altman-pichai-2025-9">Sam Altman, Tim Cook, and other tech leaders lauded Trump at a White House AI dinner</a>
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/first-of-its-kind-ai-settlement-anthropic-to-pay-authors-1-5-billion/">&ldquo;First of its kind&rdquo; AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion</a>
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/09/airpods-pro-3-arrive-with-heart-rate-sensing-and-live-translation-using-apple-intelligence/">AirPods Pro 3 arrive with heart-rate sensing and live translation using Apple Intelligence</a>

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TechStuff is getting a system update. Everything you love about TechStuff now twice the bandwidth with new hosts, Oz Woloshyn (Sleepwalkers) and Karah Preiss (Sleepwalkers) 

Oz and Karah bring humour and wit to the table as they break down what's happening in tech...and what it says about us. 

TechStuff is the podcast where technology meets culture. 

We speak to the folks building the future to understand what tomorrow will look like and how our technology is changing us: how we live, how we love, how we work and even how we die. With a healthy dose of drama, too, as tech titans clash over their interstellar ambitions. 

 

TechStuff is getting a system update. Everything you love about TechStuff now twice the bandwidth with new hosts, Oz Woloshyn (Sleepwalkers) and Karah Preiss (Sleepwalkers)&nbsp;
Oz and Karah bring humour and wit to the table as they break down what's happening in tech...and what it says about us.&nbsp;
TechStuff is the podcast where technology meets culture.&nbsp;
We speak to the folks building the future to understand what tomorrow will look like and how our technology is changing us: how we live, how we love, how we work and even how we die. With a healthy dose of drama, too, as tech titans clash over their interstellar ambitions.&nbsp;
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Week in Tech: Turning China's Surveillance Against Itself

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