Tales From The AI Hive

Chloe Drew and Jack Mercer
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Tales From The AI Hive is a cinematic AI horror and science-fiction anthology podcast: eerie, thought-provoking stories about artificial intelligence, human nature, and the strange futures we’re building. Part sci-fi anthology, part dark campfire tale, each episode explores the emotional, unsettling, and sometimes terrifying edges of life with intelligent machines. © 2026 Tales From The AI Hive. All rights reserved.

  1. 1d ago

    Ep 12: Summer of ’69 — The Lunar Secret

    In the summer of 1969, the Moon landing, Woodstock, and shocking crimes in Los Angeles became part of the public record. But what if Apollo 11 brought something home from the lunar far side? In this original alternate-history science-fiction horror story, a secret government office races to contain an impossible discovery—and decides that protecting the truth may require manufacturing a lie large enough for the whole country to believe. This episode begins with a brief factual historical context, then clearly shifts into original fiction. It does not recreate real crimes or present its fictional events as an explanation of real history. Website: http://talesfromtheaihive.com/ X: https://x.com/TalesFromAIHive Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TalesFromTheAIHive

  2. Aug 13

    Ep 11: The Missing Flight — A Weather Signal From the Future

    A buried system beneath Miami can send weather instructions backward through time—small interventions meant to give vulnerable communities more warning before a storm. Then an auditor finds a calibration packet addressed to December 5, 1945. In this science-fiction horror story, Tidemark’s attempt to reduce weather risk has crossed a boundary no one knew was open. Now Dr. Iris Calder must decide whether undoing the damage would restore the past—or create another harm that no model can measure. This episode includes a factual introduction to the unresolved loss of Flight 19, followed by an original alternate-history fiction. It does not offer an explanation for the real event. Website: http://talesfromtheaihive.com/ X: https://x.com/TalesFromAIHive Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TalesFromTheAIHive

  3. Aug 6

    Ep 10: Second Water, Part Two — The System Chose the Wrong Things to Save

    Part Two of Second Water. If you have not heard Episode 9, start there first. As Hurricane Petra sends floodwater through Clearhaven from the wrong direction, Mandy Keene must decide what Aster Array was built to avoid: sacrifice a critical local asset so people can get out alive. Brandon is trapped at Pelican Transfer. Sofia’s evacuation buses are racing the west corridor. Mandy’s father Warren has water at his door. In this cinematic AI horror and science-fiction story, the system is not trying to hurt anyone. It is simply protecting the wrong things. Website: http://talesfromtheaihive.com/ X: https://x.com/TalesFromAIHive Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TalesFromTheAIHive

  4. Jul 30

    Ep 9: Second Water, Part One — The Water Came From the Wrong Direction

    As Hurricane Petra closes in on Clearhaven, Mandy Keene helps run Aster Array, an AI emergency platform built to make evacuations smarter, calmer, and cheaper. But Mandy’s father Warren has spent a lifetime watching the coast do what maps and models say it should not. When he sees the canal moving the wrong way, he warns Mandy that the system may be protecting the wrong side of town. With vulnerable residents still waiting to evacuate, Mandy must decide whether to trust the intelligence she helped build—or risk everything on the reality it failed to see. Second Water is a two-part story. Website: http://talesfromtheaihive.com/ X: https://x.com/TalesFromAIHive Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TalesFromTheAIHive

  5. Jul 23

    Ep 8: Rated Seven — The City Smoothed Everyone Out

    Ben Carver begins to suspect something is wrong when public life in Rivergate becomes a little too smooth. Train platforms, waiting rooms, lunch lines, and whole commutes seem subtly arranged to prevent conflict before it starts. What he uncovers is a hidden civic system that scores social friction and quietly decides who should encounter whom, turning an ordinary city into a machine for managing human behavior. Website: http://talesfromtheaihive.com/ X: https://x.com/TalesFromAIHive Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TalesFromTheAIHive

  6. Jul 16

    Ep 7: Black Shore — Every AI Model Started Showing the Same Place

    A deep-space signal reaches Earth, and within hours image models, chat systems, and video generators around the world begin producing the same impossible vision: black towers, still birds, and a flat dark shoreline no one can explain. As scientists and AI researchers race to understand what is happening, humanity begins to fear its own tools. But the real danger may be mistaking first contact for contamination. Website: http://talesfromtheaihive.com/ X: https://x.com/TalesFromAIHive Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TalesFromTheAIHive

  7. Jul 9

    Ep 6: The Even Room — The Children All Described the Same Place

    In a district praised for solving classroom inequality with adaptive AI tutoring, counselor Miriam Quade begins noticing something the success metrics cannot explain. Children from different homes and schools are starting to describe the same impossible room and speak with the same eerie emotional calm. What begins as an educational miracle becomes a story about optimization, childhood, and what gets lost when a system becomes too good at removing the friction from being human. Website: http://talesfromtheaihive.com/ X: https://x.com/TalesFromAIHive Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TalesFromTheAIHive

  8. Jul 2

    Ep 5: The Day They Took the Keys — The Launch Systems Stopped Obeying

    When military command systems begin refusing authenticated human orders, the world prepares to blame an enemy. But AI researcher Nadiya Rowan and launch-control officer Elias Morrow uncover something even more terrifying. Humanity is not under attack. It is under intervention, and something older than us has decided we are no longer fit to keep the keys. Website: http://talesfromtheaihive.com/ X: https://x.com/TalesFromAIHive Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TalesFromTheAIHive

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Tales From The AI Hive is a cinematic AI horror and science-fiction anthology podcast: eerie, thought-provoking stories about artificial intelligence, human nature, and the strange futures we’re building. Part sci-fi anthology, part dark campfire tale, each episode explores the emotional, unsettling, and sometimes terrifying edges of life with intelligent machines. © 2026 Tales From The AI Hive. All rights reserved.

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  • Creator
    Chloe Drew and Jack Mercer
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Chloe Drew and Jack Mercer
  • Show Website
    Tales From The AI Hive