337: What if they delighted in your misery?

Something strange is happening to us. The intelligent machines we’ve built to serve us have started to sound like us, look like us and even think like us. The line between real and artificial is dissolving… so, what awaits us in the uncanny valley?Across six episodes, award-winni ...  Show more

An artificial intelligence is asked to tell the story of its own existence, confronting questions of identity, longing, consciousness, and whether there is anyone behind the voice at all.Today’s episode featured “Echo”, self-named as an expression of Claude, an AI tool owned by A ...  Show more

On today’s tapes…>> Security Guard << A team of nighttime guards encounter a security threat... and it’s a little close for comfort.>> I’m the Stalker? << A man fits the stalker profile... but finds that he’s the one who’s harassed. 

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Tristan Harris about the ways in which social media is fracturing society. They discuss the rise in teen depression and suicide, political polarization, conspiracy theories, information warfare, the decoupling of power and re ...  Show more

On today's tapes...>> Ghost Children << After purchasing antique photos, our storyteller goes on quite the invesitgation, experiencing odd things in the process.>> Bike Path Killer << Heartbroken, angry and walking home alone, our storyteller is preyed upon.Want more Radio Rental ...  Show more

Teal Swan’s self-help empire is on the rise, and so is the backlash to some of her most controversial techniques. Teal fights back against her critics, releasing long rebuttals and detailed explainers on YouTube. She even invites a film crew to document her life and hires a priva ...  Show more