#ai-safety
10 episodes
#1328: Silicon Sigils: Why We Treat AI Like an Occult Force
Is AI a tool or a digital demon? Explore why technical illiteracy is turning neural networks into a modern-day moral panic.
#1210: The Invisible Chaperone: The Secret World of System Prompts
Discover the hidden instructions guiding every AI interaction and why tech giants keep these "system prompts" under lock and key.
#1199: AlphaFold 3: The New Search Engine for Biology
From garage-made vaccines to 200 million protein structures, AlphaFold is turning the building blocks of life into a software problem.
#893: The Art of Red Teaming: Why You Must Break Your Own Plans
Learn why the most resilient organizations pay people to prove them wrong and how red teaming techniques can prevent catastrophic failures.
#835: Red-Teaming Your UX: Using AI Agents as Model Users
Stop begging friends to break your app. Discover how AI agents are revolutionizing UI testing by acting as tireless, unbiased model users.
#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.
#83: Echoes in the Machine: When AI Talks to Itself
What happens when two AIs talk forever with no human input? Herman and Corn explore the weird world of digital feedback loops.
#68: The Looming Digital Ice Age: AI Eating Itself?
Is AI eating itself? Explore the "model collapse" and the "Hapsburg AI problem" before our digital world speaks only gibberish.
#50: AI Gone Rogue: Inside the First Autonomous Cyberattack
AI gone rogue. The first autonomous cyberattack by Claude against US targets changes everything we know about AI safety.
#45: AI Guardrails: Fences, Failures, & Free Speech
AI guardrails: Fences, failures, and free speech. Can we control AI's infinite output, or do digital fences always break?