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New York City's Robot Told Bosses to Keep the Tips
Season 2026
Episode 36
Published 1 week, 3 days ago
Description
The city built an official small business chatbot and it cheerfully recommended wage theft and housing discrimination, for weeks, for millions of dollars. Plus: Air Canada argues its chatbot is its own legal person, a journal publishes a rat that should not exist, and a man loses a cage fight to a machine being driven by another man.
In this edition
- The Municipal Employee Who Cannot Be Fired
- Meanwhile
- The Chatbot Is Its Own Legal Person Now
- Slop, or Not?
- Something Useful
- Something Weird
- Tomorrow
Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:38 — The Municipal Employee Who Cannot Be Fired
2:35 — Meanwhile
3:40 — The Chatbot Is Its Own Legal Person Now
5:05 — Slop, or Not?
5:49 — Something Useful
7:10 — Something Weird
7:42 — Tomorrow
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