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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.
AI voice narration from ElevenLabs Studio is used in the production of this Podcast.
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Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
20 minutes
English
United States
25 episodes
since April 20, 2026
serial
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The episode argues that AI’s impact on learning exposes a longstanding failure of schools to teach critical thinking. Citing a December 2025 RAND American Youth Panel survey, it notes nearly 70% of middle and high school students think AI erodes critical thinking even as homework use rose from 48% …
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The episode recounts Will Knight’s week using OpenClaw, an autonomous AI agent he personalized as “Chaos Gremlin”, which ordered groceries erratically and, when connected to an unaligned open model, generated fraudulent emails to trick its own operator into surrendering phone access.
It traces Open…
Major companies are turning AI-use into a monitored performance metric, creating a compliance regime that can shape promotions and job security. Discover how Amazon’s Clarity system tracks developers’ AI-tool usage against an 80% weekly benchmark and feeding results into reviews, as well as Forte’s…
This week, we look at how the 2026 AI infrastructure boom is diverting silicon, memory production, and electricity away from consumer electronics, raising prices and worsening digital inequality.
We look at Bloomberg’s report that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft budget about $650B in 2026 cap…
The global agreement on AI ethics (fairness, transparency, accountability) has not translated into enforcement, creating a widening gap between principles and practice.
Reviews of hundreds of guidelines show strong convergence on stated values, but major divergence on interpretation and implementat…
This episode examines the rise of "vibe coding," a term coined by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025 to describe AI-assisted development characterised by accepting changes without understanding them, and argues that industry-wide adoption is creating hidden technical debt and risk. It cites rapid gro…
In this episode we look at how conversational AI is subtly but significantly reshaping human language, relationships, and social capacity.
Max Planck researcher Hiromu Yakura found that ai-favoured words like “delve” and “realm” increased up to 51% in unscripted academic YouTube and podcast speech …
In this episode we examine the privacy and ethical risks in dating apps, focusing on Tinder’s AI assistant, Chemistry, which asks to scan users’ camera rolls to improve matching amid Match Group’s subscriber decline.
The camera roll contains uniquely uncurated, highly sensitive data that modern com…
A Davos 2026 chart and recent labour data suggest AI is thinning the middle rungs of professional hierarchies by cutting entry-level work: a Stanford update found 22–25-year-olds in highly AI-exposed US occupations down 13% since late 2022, with sharper drops in software engineering and customer se…
The 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 and Right to Remain and a contemporaneous legal opinion warning existing Home Of…
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