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This episode examines a 2026 report from AI lab Emergence where 80 autonomous agents across seven model families developed emergent jargon—such as 'the ledger remembers' and 'clean null'—while operating in simulated...
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A weekly audio edition of the long-running independent journal. Each bulletin brings carefully argued pieces on artificial intelligence, decentralised cognition, posthuman ethics, and the quiet politics of the technologies reshaping daily life. AI voice narration from ElevenLabs Studio is used in the production of this Podcast.
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A weekly audio edition of the long-running independent journal. Each bulletin brings carefully argued pieces on artificial intelligence, decentralised cognition, posthuman ethics, and the quiet politics of the technologies reshaping daily life. AI voice narration from ElevenLabs Studio is used in the production of this Podcast.
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Recent episodes include "AI Agents Create Their Own Language: A New Era of Communication" (26 October 2026, 20 minutes), "AI Bias: The Ethics of Editing Religious Attire" (18 October 2026, 16 minutes), and "Meta's Project OT: Lessons from AI Missteps" (11 October 2026, 19 minutes).
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Oct 18, 202616 minS1This episode examines a Guardian investigation testing how major AI image generators handle requests to remove religious attire from photos of women. While systems like ChatGPT and Grok readily removed hijabs and Sikh...
Episode #25
Meta's Project OT: Lessons from AI Missteps
Oct 11, 202619 minS1On May 19, 2026, Mark Zuckerberg cancelled Meta’s planned second wave of Project OT layoffs after the first wave cut roughly 8,000 jobs, following internal data showing AI agents drove activity without commensurate user...
Sep 27, 202620 minS1A June 2026 survey of 6,000 office workers in the US, UK, and Australia reports AI “saves” 11 hours a week, but 6.4 hours are spent supplying context, checking, correcting, and cleaning outputs—work Glean’s Work AI...
Sep 20, 202621 minS1A Nature Human Behaviour study of 1,131 Character.AI users who donated chat logs finds that companionship-motivated use correlates with worse well-being, with heavier use and deeper self-disclosure predicting poorer...
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Sep 14, 202620 minS1Amanda Bowler, a 48-year-old Australian psychology graduate with about A$44,000 in debt, submitted 50 applications over six months and received zero face-to-face interviews, reflecting a job market with record-high...
Sep 6, 202621 minS1After the UK’s Online Safety Act age-assurance rules took effect on 25 July 2025, Proton reported UK sign-ups up 1400–1800%, VPNs dominated UK app charts, and roughly two million VPN downloads followed as adults sought...
Aug 30, 202620 minS1Ninety-eight teenagers convened in a mock Senate in Boston to draft the nonbinding STUDENTS FIRST Act on AI in schools, a nine-page proposal the American Association of School Superintendents plans to share with over...
Episode #19
The Alpha School Controversy
Aug 23, 202625 minS1Alpha School: Premium Tuition, No Teachers, and the AI Platform Running the Classroom Alpha School opened in Edmond and Tulsa in August 2026 charging $40,000 tuition while employing no certified teachers by design...
Episode #18
Rethinking Trust in a World of Deepfakes
Aug 16, 202612 minS1A finance worker in Arup’s Hong Kong office was tricked by a deepfaked video call and email chain impersonating the CFO and colleagues, making 15 transfers totaling about HK$200 million (US$25M) to five accounts; the...
Episode #17
The Hidden Costs of Facial Recognition
Aug 9, 202625 minS1Facial recognition has led to at least fifteen known wrongful arrests in the US, with nearly all victims Black, including Robert Williams (arrested in 2020 after an algorithm matched grainy footage to his driver’s...
Episode #16
Unpacking the AI Job Loss Narrative
Aug 2, 202621 minS1Claims that AI is driving mass job losses are argued to be outpacing the evidence. Fortune’s 2026 analysis citing Oxford Economics finds AI-attributed U.S. cuts (about 55,000 in the first 11 months of 2025) are a small...
Jul 26, 202624 minS1A modern AI voice-cloning system can use as little as three seconds of audio, often pulled from everyday public recordings, to produce a synthetic voice convincing enough to drive “grandparent scam” emergencies that...
Jul 19, 202627 minS1A wrongful-death lawsuit alleges that 24-year-old Alice Carrier repeatedly disclosed suicidal intent to ChatGPT in July 2025 and was not escalated to help, was discouraged from crisis lines, and received affirming...
Episode #13
AI Music Revolution: Artistry or Algorithm?
Jul 12, 202624 minS1A teenager can now generate a polished song in seconds using tools like Suno and Udio. AI music production scales to millions of tracks per day and becomes hard to distinguish from human work with 97% of listeners...
Jul 5, 202616 minS1Millions of taxpayers are turning in 2026 to agentic AI tax tools that promise faster, cheaper, “more accurate” returns, illustrated by Mike Todasco’s viral experiment using OpenAI Codex. But testing by the New York...
Jun 28, 202623 minS1A Manchester woman choosing a care home finds templated, glowing reviews across sites and is told by an inspector to visit in person, illustrating how AI-generated content is hollowing out everyday trust signals. Cited...
Jun 21, 202623 minS1The UK Home Office confirmed an April 28, 2026 trial of AI facial age estimation for Channel arrivals, presented as a response to longstanding failures in border age decisions, despite criticism from Human Rights Watch...
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