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The Utah Officer Who Became A Frog, According To Paperwork
Season 2026 Episode 25
An AI report-writing tool heard a Disney film through a body camera and put amphibious shape-shifting into an official police record. Plus: Flock cam…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Yemen Rocket Cell Had a Standup Meeting
Season 2026 Episode 24
A weapons cell ran three copies of a chatbot like a small engineering team — including one assigned to explain why the test fire failed — and the roc…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Albania's Chatbot Minister Is Pregnant With 83 Surveillance Bots
Season 2026 Episode 23
Albania's prime minister announced that the cabinet's AI minister is expecting eighty-three digital babies, and their job is to listen in when MPs go…
4 weeks ago
Your Boss Is a Number, and It Just Went Down
Season 2026 Episode 22
Uber drivers in Europe are launching a class action against an algorithm they call soulless and scary — we ask who exactly you shout at when your man…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The Minister Is Expecting Eighty-Three Digital Babies
Season 2026 Episode 21
Albania's chatbot cabinet minister is pregnant, apparently, with eighty-three parliamentary bots whose job is watching lawmakers get coffee. Plus a s…
1 month ago
The Nairobi Essay Mill Meets Its Replacement
Season 2026 Episode 20
Forty thousand Kenyan gig writers built an export industry out of American homework, then got undercut by a free chatbot — and now get paid to make i…
1 month ago
The Chatbot That Explained the Dead Sesame Perfectly, Afterwards
Season 2026 Episode 19
A farmer trusted a chatbot for a year of harmless tips, then mixed the pesticide it suggested and lost twenty-five acres of sesame seedlings — and th…
1 month ago
The Invisible Word Was Madagascar
Season 2026 Episode 18
A history professor hides a word in white font on an exam paper and thirty-two students hand back essays about the Industrial Revolution in Madagasca…
1 month ago
The Hiring Robot That Invents Your CV
Season 2026 Episode 17
A screening model doesn't just rank candidates — it makes up job titles they never held, and the pipeline downstream treats the invention as a fact a…
1 month ago
The Cat in the Hat Is Not Outside Your School, Say Police
Season 2026 Episode 16
Police in more than one country have officially confirmed the whereabouts of a Dr. Seuss character, thanks to grainy AI videos and a very bored inter…
1 month ago