Low-Stakes AI Scenarios, High-Stakes AI Viruses, and the Trump Catering Truck Escape, With Charlie Warzel
About this episode
Charlie Warzel joins the podcast to discuss low-stakes AI scenarios and high-stakes implications, including a Trump catering truck escape.
The Atlantic’s Charlie Warzel joins the podcast to help break down the small-potato scenarios of AI run amok. In this episode: (00:00) Intro (7:15) Low-stakes AI scenarios (40:21) Trump’s catering truck escape (43:57) AI viruses (47:22) The missing Nicolas Cage movie (54:18) Ancient Chinese civilization (57:02) Italy’s cheese banks (59:21) Flock stalking (1:03:26) Iranian money laundering Hosts: Jason Concepcion and Tyler Parker Guest: Charlie Warzel Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Justin Sayles Art direction: David Shoemaker Motion graphics and animations: Chris Calleton Engineering: Sarah Reddy Set design: Hannah Leiken and Jonathan Ratliff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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