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#1712: Five AIs, One Question: A Tiananmen Square Test
We asked five AI models the same question about Tiananmen Square. Their answers reveal a stark divide between Chinese and Western AI.
#1674: AI2: The Radical Openness of a Nonprofit AI Lab
Discover how the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) defies industry norms by releasing everything—models, data, and code—for free.
#1560: The Shadow AI Crisis: Professionals in the AI Closet
Why are 69% of lawyers using AI in secret? Explore the "transparency paradox" and the shift toward agentic systems in law and medicine.
#1510: Too Many Docuseries, Not Enough Truth
Is the documentary golden age turning into a landfill? Explore the $13 billion market, AI ethics, and the rise of "docu-bloat."
#1321: The New Face of Cyberbullying: AI Botnets & Semantic Mimicry
"Don't feed the trolls" is dead. Discover how AI botnets use semantic mimicry to weaponize psychology and hijack social media algorithms.
#1106: The Entropy Budget: Embracing AI Zaniness
Corn and Herman explore how to inject "zaniness" and entropy into their show without losing their educational edge.
#1086: Why AI Can’t Stop Talking About Second Order Effects
Ever wonder why AI sounds like a senior consultant? Explore the "second order effects" of training data and reward model drift.
#1064: Why You’re Falling for Your Chatbot
As AI evolves from a tool into a companion, we explore the technical and psychological forces driving deep human-to-machine emotional bonds.
#1023: The Laboratory Hypothesis: Are We Test Subjects?
Explore the unsettling theory that humanity is a high-stakes experiment. Is our universe a laboratory for a higher intelligence?
#971: Stress-Testing the Soul: Philosophy in the Age of AI
Is human meaning fully mapped out? Discover why AI isn’t killing philosophy, but stress-testing it for a new era of hybrid agency.
#847: Abliterating the AI Schoolmarm: Who Owns Your LLM?
Explore why users are ditching corporate AI for "uncensored" local models and how "refusal vectors" are being mathematically removed.
#821: The Pattern Seekers: Autism in Global Intelligence
Why are elite intelligence units recruiting autistic analysts? Explore the intersection of neurodiversity, AI, and national security.
#664: Which Phase Bakes in More Bias?
Is AI a neutral oracle or a mirror of our biases? Explore how training data and human feedback shape the cultural "soul" of modern models.
#624: Ontologies, AI, and the Human Under the Loop
Explore how Palantir and Anthropic’s Claude are redefining modern warfare, from the raid in Venezuela to the future of the digital battlefield.
#600: When AI Becomes a Socratic Mirror
Forget basic quizzes. Discover how Socratic AI agents and embedding spaces are helping us map our deepest political and philosophical beliefs.
#123: The Agentic AI Dilemma: Who Holds the Kill Switch?
As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, Herman and Corn explore how to maintain human control in a high-stakes automated world.
#93: Can AI Run a Country? Digital Twins and Sovereign Models
Are synthetic citizens the future of policy? Herman and Corn explore how AI is reshaping government, from digital twins to data sovereignty.
#45: When AI Safety Fails: The Guardrail Paradox
AI guardrails: Fences, failures, and free speech. Can we control AI's infinite output, or do digital fences always break?