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Signal on manipulation risk, epistemic resilience, and public-reasoning failure in algorithmic environments.
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5 Jan 2025
This conversation examines core safety through Shakeel Hashim on AI Journalism, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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Future of Life Institute Podcast
20 Jan 2026
This conversation examines core safety through How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut), surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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Future of Life Institute Podcast
7 Nov 2025
This conversation examines core safety through What Happens When Insiders Sound the Alarm on AI? (with Karl Koch), surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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Future of Life Institute Podcast
27 Nov 2025
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Lex Fridman Podcast
17 Jul 2023
A macro-level discussion on narrative control, institutions, and the political consequences of increasingly capable AI systems.
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TED Talks
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Pariser's filter-bubble thesis explains how personalized ranking environments fragment epistemic common ground and weaken the shared factual substrate required for democratic reasoning.
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Zuboff outlines surveillance capitalism as an extraction and prediction regime in which human behavior becomes raw material for commercial optimization and control.
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Harris shows how engagement optimization functions as behavioral infrastructure: product defaults and ranking decisions at a handful of firms can shape collective attention, belief formation, and social coordination.
The TED AI Show
3 Jun 2024
This conversation examines core safety through Is AI destroying our sense of reality? with Sam Gregory, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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TED Talks
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Cadwalladr argues that opaque targeting systems can distort electoral processes while evading public scrutiny and regulatory accountability. She frames platform ad infrastructure as a constitutional issue, not just a media issue.
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Tufekci explains how recommendation and targeting systems optimized for advertising can become de facto civic infrastructure without democratic mandate or accountability.