9 Podcasts about AI

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Eye on AI (interviews from a longtime New York Times correspondent)

Machine Learning Guide (teaching the fundamentals of machine learning and AI)

AI in Business (for non-technical business leaders)

Data Skeptic (applies critical thinking and the scientific method to AI developments)

AI Today (practical insights)

AI for Humans (have a good time learning)

Practical AI (how to get stuff done)

The Artificial Intelligence Show (for marketers)

NVIDIA AI Podcast (interviews with people growing the AI space  from a major AI chipmaker)

The intersection of Science & AI in 18 Articles

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Open-source AI program can answer science questions better than humans - Science.org

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in – Nature

Today’s fraudsters can exploit the online scientific world to quickly create realistic looking papers on an industrial scale - Taylor and Francis

There's a crisis in particle physics. Researchers hope AI can help. – IEEE Spectrum

Inside OpenAI’s big play for science – MIT Tech Review

Researchers use AI to reverse engineer molecules – Semafor

Resisting AI slop in Science & Higher Ed – Science.org

2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs - Axios

Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress? – New York Times 

The H-Index of Suspicion: How Culture, Incentives, and AI Challenge Scientific Integrity – NEJM

Machine learning helps researchers create lab-grown ‘tiny brains’ to uncover how neurons may malfunction in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – SciTechDaily  

AI-designed viruses raise fears over creating life – Washington Post  

AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know - Science.org 

How ChatGPT-5 redefines scientific reproducibility – Elephant in the Lab

The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn – Chemistry World  

Hack reveals reviewer identities for huge AI conference – Science.org

Researchers call for retraction of two recent Nature studies about AI-generated crystals – Chemical & Engineering News

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop – The Atlantic

18 AI Dangers

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AI Companions - Inappropriate dependance on AI, AI control over humans, weakening of human relationships, pornography, suicides, AI delusions, mental health care, human dignity.

AI Divide - Greater inequality, the distance between those who have access to powerful AI & those who don’t.  

Bias - AI can reflect societal prejudices and stereotypes, obscuring underrepresented and marginalized populations.    

Criminals & Crime - Using AI to commit crimes such as cyberattacks, fraud and child pornography.  

Copyright – AI may be trained on copyrighted works and reproduce copyrighted material without permission. 

Deep Fakes - Cyberbullying, nonconsensual pornographic images & video.

Economics - Potential AI-created financial crisis.

Environmental Concerns - Energy consumption, high water usage, and electronic waste.

False information  - Hallucinations can lead to fearmongering, fake news, poor health advice, corrupted learning tools for children, historical misinformation, and false criminal accusations.

Human Labor – Exploitation of workers, human trafficking.

Knowledge Collapse – AI models run out of fresh data, resulting in a feedback loop — dominant ideas are amplified while less widely held or new viewpoints are minimized.

Out of Control AI - Bullying humans, taking action against humans (particularly actions outside of what the AI was designed to do), and AI uprising where bots attempt to gain control outside of human direction. 

Politics - Influencing elections, creating or magnifying international conflict.

Privacy & Security - Facial recognition false arrests, malware, social media, data on children, using AI to hack databases, steal passwords, and personal information has the potential to be shared with third parties. 

Religion - Cultlike dependence on AI, allowing outsized control, treating AI like a Magic 8 Ball, worshipping AI. 

Science - AI Slop may erode scientific progress.

Slop – Low-grade AI content can clog email, social media and the internet. Also, work slop.

Weapons & War - Drones, satellites, biological weapons.

Signs of Endings

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Endings and losses are the commonest first sign that people are in transition. These endings tend to be signaled by one of several experiences: 

  • A sudden and unexpected event that destroys the old life that made you feel like yourself 

  • The “drying up” of a situation or a relationship 

  • An activity that has always gone well before, suddenly and unexpectedly goes badly

  • A person or an organization that you have always trusted proves it be untrustworthy 

  • An inexplicable or unforeseen problem crops up 

William Bridges, The Way of Transition

AI Health Advice

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A new study found that AI "health advice from was frequently wrong. However, a closer look at the results tell a different story. "About half the time, mistakes appeared to be the result of user error. Participants didn’t enter enough information or the most relevant symptoms. By contrast, when researchers entered the full medical scenario directly into the chatbots, they correctly diagnosed the problem 94 percent of the time." -New York Times

Using AI to Write an Apology to the Court

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A judge in New Zealand questioned the remorse of a defendant who had used A.I. to write apologies to victims and the court. Increasingly, people are outsourcing many tasks to machines, including writing apologies, eulogies and wedding vows, perhaps saving precious time but also inviting the ire of some of their fellow humans. People apparently believe that certain activities should take work in order to seem genuine. -New York Times

4 Steps When Addressing Inappropriate Behavior

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When someone keeps repeating inappropriate behavior, try the DESC approach.  The four steps are describe, express, specify, and consequences.

1. Describe the objectionable behavior.

2. Express your feelings.

3. Specify what action you want to see.

4. Tell the person the consequences if there is no change in behavior.

12 Recent Articles about AI & Audio/Video

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“I made a mistake”

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Though agentic tools often excel at complicated work, such as synthesizing unfathomable reams of text, they struggle to do something as simple as copy and paste text from Google Docs into Substack. And because they are so powerful, they can also be dangerous: When one venture capitalist recently asked Claude Cowork—Anthropic’s new, more accessible agentic tool—for help organizing his wife’s desktop, the bot subsequently deleted 15 years of family photos. “I need to stop and be honest with you about something important,” the bot told him. “I made a mistake.” -The Atlantic

25 Recent Articles about the Business of Running an AI Company

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AI is advancing too quickly for research to keep up – Axios 

Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad, data shows – CNBC

Chinese AI models push pro-China views – Axios

Anthropic raises $30B at $380B valuation - Axios

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions - MIT Tech Review  

Anthropic has signed a multiyear deal with Atlassian Williams F1 Team, its first major sports partnership. - Axios  

Google Plans to Double Spending Amid A.I. Race – New York Times

AI arms race approaches IPO reckoning - Axios

Anthropic ‘destructively’ scanned millions of books to build Claude - The Washington Post

Meta Overshadows Microsoft by Showing AI Payoff in Ad Business – Wall Street Journal

In the AI boom, this energy company is suddenly flying high - Axios

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books - The Washington Post

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley - The New York Times  

Intel Shares Slide as Costs Pile Up in Bid to Meet AI Demand – Wall Street Journal

Are we in an AI bubble? Economists share the clues to look for – NPR  

What Apple and Google’s Gemini deal means for both companies: They’re putting up a united front against AI newcomers – The Verge

The AI race is creating a new world order – Rest of World  

Apple Teams Up With Google for A.I. in Its Products - The New York Times

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records – The Verge

Google is adding an "AI Inbox" to Gmail - Axios 

How to kill a rogue AI Shutting off the internet? Detonating a nuke in space? None of the options are very appealing. – Vox

If U.S.-China AI Rivalry Were Football, the Score Would Be 24-18 - Wall Street Journal 

Meta Buys AI Startup with Chinese roots for More Than $2 Billion – Wall Street Journal

LLM adoption is roughly on trend, but the underlying drivers are shifting – EpochAI

US to mandate AI vendors measure political bias for federal sales – Reuters

What we really believe

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Every person expects to be treated as a person. The proof that he really believes there are some unconditional values is that he expects his freedom and dignity to be respected. In his actions, he may not always respect others, but in his reactions, he proves that he always expects others to respect his freedom and dignity. Hence, human expectations are the key to what a man believes to be absolute.

Norman Geisler, Options in Contemporary Christian Ethics

How AI might slow scientific progress

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“One of my growing concerns is that A.I. could inadvertently slow scientific progress. The theoretical physicist Max Planck is often credited with saying that “science advances one funeral at a time.” I am mindful that I may be quite wrong in my viewpoints. However, if my opinion becomes encoded into A.I. systems and persists indefinitely, will it hinder the evolution of new scientific ideas?” - Tamara Kolda, who runs MathSci.ai, a consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area, quoted in the New York Times

AI Definitions: Imitation Learning

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Imitation Learning – This is a popular method for training robots, along with reinforced learning. The robots learn by watching humans or by being given data on other robots which are being operated by humans. Out of fashion for decades, it has recently come back into favor in robotics because of AI. The downside to this technique is the need for large amounts of data for the robots to imitate new behaviors.

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18 Recent Articles about the Impact of AI on Health Care

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Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows – New York Times

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts – Reuters

ChatGPT can analyze Apple Watch health data. Here’s how a doctor views it. - The Washington Post

Why some hospitals are making their own ChatGPTs for patient records – Stat News

A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For? – New York Times

‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk – The Guardian

I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor. – MSN

Institutions are missing AI’s real potential for drug discovery – Semafor

AI-generated sensors open new paths for early cancer detection - MIT News

Your next primary care doctor could be online only, accessed through an AI tool – NPR

What are the limits to biomedical research acceleration through general-purpose AI? – Nature

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records – The Verge

Utah permits nation's first AI drug prescriptions – Axios

Hospitals Are a Proving Ground for What AI Can Do, and What It Can’t – Wall Street Journal

Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress? - New York Times

40 million people turn to ChatGPT for health care - Axios

Researchers create a machine learning model “to distinguish paper mill publications from genuine cancer research articles.”- The BMJ

In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss - New York Times

AI Definitions: OpenClaw AI

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OpenClaw AI – This open-source artificial-intelligence agent is designed to assist users with everyday tasks, such as reading and sorting email, scheduling calendar events, and making purchases. Text it on a variety of platforms and it will remember your messages and preferences, send you reminders and automate tasks for you. While its creator promises a capable assistant, critics warn it is not a polished, enterprise-ready product but a rough outline of a tool with significant security concerns, especially since it is still at work after users have logged off. OpenClaw was released as open-source software on the platform GitHub in November of 2025 under the name Clawdbot, which was briefly changed to Moltbot.

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