#1721 The Evolution of the Military Industrial Complex: Now with AI!
Air Date: 7-9-2025
It's an old joke that "military intelligence" is a good example of an oxymoron so I just asked an AI chatbot to finish a joke about what a military becomes when they implement artificial intelligence. It said, "an oxymoron squared - or as the generals call it, "strategically enhanced stupidity with a confidence interval of 95%" which is not funny but still managed to be pretty on point regarding the dangers of overconfidence that inevitably follows from the implementation of new technology.
Read more#1334 Your Life Will Have Been What You Paid Attention To (Attention Economy) (Repost)
Air Date: 2–5-2020
Today we take a look at the past, present and future of behavior modification from worms to pigeons to prisoners, and finally, internet users.
Read more#1334 Your Life Will Have Been What You Paid Attention To (Attention Economy)
Air Date: 2–5-2020
Today we take a look at the past, present and future of behavior modification from worms to pigeons to prisoners, and finally, internet users.
Read more#1270 Surveillance Capitalism is threatening democracy itself
Air Date: 5–7-2019
Today we take a look at the impacts, from personal to global, of the paradigm of companies profiting off of surveillance of their users, otherwise known as surveillance capitalism.
Read more#1266 Writing human bias into the code that runs our lives (Algorithms)
Air Date: 4–19-2019
Today we take a look at the racism, sexism and classism that is permeating the algorithmic systems that are directing more and more of our online and offline lives
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