1.13 - Inescapable Podcast - Cheat, Lie, Win

About this episode

The episode discusses a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship and the implications of AI in cheating and deception in academia and beyond.

A cruise ship leaves Argentina on April 1st with a hantavirus outbreak on board.A cruise ship leaves Argentina on April 1st with a hantavirus outbreak on board. Three passengers are dead, the ship is stuck in Cape Verde, and 23 infected travellers have scattered across the world. The media is already calling it the next pandemic. We're not buying it. The bigger story this week is AI and cheating. A Columbia student built a suite of tools to cheat through his entire degree, used them to land big tech internship interviews, then got put on probation for selling access to other students. It turns out his professors were grading with AI the whole time anyway. Now there's hardware that feeds live answers into your ear during job interviews, and a startup raised millions selling exactly that. We get into what it means that deception has gone from shameful to a product with a pitch deck. Also this week: the Met Gala's annual parade of costumed degeneracy, Western scholars and the decolonisation of history, new footage from the Titanic debris field, men who snap and drive bulldozers into things, and a robot Buddhist monk in South Korea. WATCH ON YOUTUBE Links Cruise passengers tell of…

People in this episode

Hosts: Benjamin Grundy, Aaron Wright

Topics covered

• hantavirus outbreak
• AI and cheating
• Met Gala
• decolonisation of history
• Titanic
• robot monk

Keywords

• hantavirus
• AI
• cheating
• Met Gala
• Titanic
• robot monk
• deception
• pandemic

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AI, Met Gala

Places: Argentina, Cape Verde, Titanic debris field

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