Vana is excited to announce its sponsorship of Season 3 of The People’s AI Podcast, a show that breaks down the wild, weird, and sometimes shocking world of modern AI. As AI systems grow more powerful and become more deeply woven into our lives, understanding where they get their intelligence, and who truly benefits from it, has never been more important.
Season 3 dives directly into those questions, making it the perfect companion to Vana’s mission of building a world where people own their data and participate directly in the AI economy.
If you want a single hub with all listening links, head to the podcast’s official Linktree.
Why Vana Is Supporting the New Season of The People’s AI Podcast
Season 3 of The People’s AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast opens with a simple but powerful idea: You are a factory. Every day, every click, every photo, every post, you quietly generate the most valuable resource on earth: data.
AI companies are hungry for it. Most of the time, they capture it quietly. And in many cases, they use it without permission.
This is where the podcast comes in. Season 3 explores the rise of AI, the ethics behind AI training data, and the real-world consequences of today’s data-hungry systems. It blends gripping stories, surprising tech deep dives, and timely AI news to help listeners understand what’s happening behind the curtain.
Episodes also address how decentralized technologies, like blockchain and user-owned datasets, may offer a better path forward. It’s one of the few shows sitting at the intersection of AI, digital rights, and emerging decentralized systems, making it not just an AI podcast, but a genuinely important resource for anyone thinking about the future of technology.
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Inside Season 3: AI, Data, and the Human Stories Behind Them
Season 3 doesn’t hold back. The topics dig deep into the reality of where AI training data comes from and what happens when personal information is misused or scraped without consent.
Some of the stories include:
- A robot vacuum cleaner that photographed a woman unclothed in her bathroom, then leaked the photos onto Facebook.
(Covered widely in publications like MIT Technology Review.) - How most of the internet’s books, articles, and creative work were used to train AI systems, often without the author’s knowledge or approval.
(The Atlantic and The New York Times have both investigated these issues.)
These stories aren’t exaggerations, they highlight a genuine problem in the AI ecosystem: our data is being used, taken, and monetized at scale, yet the people who generate it rarely benefit.
The show presents these moments with clarity, humor, and a level of honesty that makes complex issues surprisingly easy to understand. Whether you’re someone who follows the latest AI news religiously or someone who just wants to stay informed without drowning in jargon, Season 3 is built to be accessible.
Connecting With Vana’s Vision
Vana is building a system where individuals, not platforms, control their own data. You decide how it’s used, who can access it, and how you benefit from it.
That’s why Season 3 of The People’s AI aligns so naturally with what Vana stands for. When the show exposes how AI models scrape data without consent, when it highlights the imbalance between centralized systems and individual rights, when it asks who actually profits from your information, it’s addressing the same issues Vana is working to fix.
With Vana, your data becomes part of your digital identity, something you control, instead of something quietly collected and locked away by centralized systems. To see how Vana is approaching a more decentralized, user-driven AI future, explore the Vana Vision page.
This partnership with The People’s AI Podcast isn’t just a sponsorship, it’s a shared effort to bring these topics into the open and give people more agency over their digital lives.
What Listeners Can Expect This Season
Season 3 is packed with topics that touch every part of our digital lives:
- How AI models learn and what they learn from you
- The ethics of web scraping, data harvesting, and training sets
- Real-world stories of AI gone wrong
- How decentralized technology may reshape the future of AI
- What “life after death” means when your data lives forever
- The emerging role of blockchain systems in securing personal data
- The philosophy of digital identity in an AI-driven future
- Reclaiming ownership of your digital footprint
Unlike many overly technical AI podcasts or dry blockchain news shows, this one balances storytelling, humor, and insight. Each episode feels like a conversation with someone who knows the stakes but also knows how to make it enjoyable to learn about them.
Where to Listen to The People’s AI Podcast
Season 3 is available everywhere you listen. Use any of the links below to join the conversation:
- Listen on Apple Podcasts
- Watch episodes on YouTube
- Follow on Buzzsprout
- Explore all platforms via Linktree
Subscribing ensures you never miss new episodes, story breakdowns, or major updates in the worlds of decentralized AI, digital identity, and data governance.
Building a Human-CentricFuture for Technology
Vana’s sponsorship of Season 3 marks a shared commitment to something bigger: reshaping the relationship between people, their data, and the AI systems shaping the world.
The show exposes the flaws in how AI companies gather intelligence today.
Vana offers a path toward a more ethical, decentralized future.
Together, they help people understand not just what’s happening, but what’s possible.
If you’re ready to explore the future of AI through a human lens, start listening to Season 3 today, and learn how your data can become a source of empowerment rather than exploitation.
Subscribe now and be part of the movement toward a more transparent, decentralized AI world.
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