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Short Stuff: Can People Tell If You’ve Used AI?
Season 2 Episode 17
In this Short Stuff episode, Kieren and Riku unpack AI text watermarking, now being rolled out by Google, Anthropic and OpenAI as the EU's new transp…
19 hours ago
#31 - Can AI Build a Bioweapon? (AIBIO-UK Mini-Series)
Season 1 Episode 31
You can order custom DNA online and have it printed and posted to your door. That's ordinary science, and it's also one of the last checkpoints betwe…
1 month ago
Short Stuff: An AI Just Broke Out of Its Box
Season 2 Episode 16
In this Short Stuff episode, Kieren and Riku unpack the five days in July when an autonomous AI agent escaped its test environment and broke into Hug…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
#30 - Is AI the End of Romance?
Season 1 Episode 30
In this episode, Kieren and Riku ask what happens when technology becomes very good at producing the signals humans use to recognise connection. They…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Short Stuff: AI Companies Are Making Their Chatbots Less Smart!
Season 2 Episode 15
In this Short Stuff episode, Kieren and Riku unpack the week Anthropic quietly made its newest model, Claude Fable 5, worse at AI-development questio…
4 months ago
#29 - Can AI Help Save Our Planet? — with Prof Tilo Burghardt (AIBIO-UK Mini-Series)
Season 1 Episode 29
In this episode, Kieren and Riku tackle a pressing and surprisingly hopeful question of whether AI can actually help protect our natural world. Joine…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Short Stuff: War Games... The Pentagon vs. Big Tech
Season 2 Episode 14
Kieren and Riku discuss the US military's high-stakes clash with Big Tech over AI. Discover why Anthropic was blacklisted over autonomous weapons, ho…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
#28 - Can AI Predict the Future?
Season 1 Episode 28
In this episode, Kieren and Riku explore whether AI can truly predict the future through time series forecasting. They trace the history of predictio…
7 months ago
Short Stuff: Moltbook... Are the AIs Conspiring Against Us?
Season 2 Episode 13
In this Short Stuff episode, Kieren and Riku investigate Moltbook, a viral social media platform built exclusively for AI agents to converse without …
8 months, 1 week ago
#27 - How NOT To Use AI in 2026
Season 1 Episode 27
In this episode, Kieren and Riku kick off the new year by exploring the pitfalls of mass AI adoption, noting that chatbots like ChatGPT now have over…
8 months, 4 weeks ago