Artificial Insanity is a show for the AI skeptic.
Hosted by two women, Sophie and Jess, this podcast covers AI’s impact on society and culture, breaking down AI news headlines and going deep on meaty topics with fun and accessible conversations, expert guests, comedy, tears, swearing, and wild takes. Subscribe and follow to unravel the impact of artificial intelligence on our society and what we can do about it. Find us on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts.
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A leaked PHP flaw just put most of the internet at risk
Chapters:0:00 Cold open0:52 An apology to Pilates Face (sort of)6:18 Black October: the biggest vulnerability in a decade17:52 Bubble watch: billionaires lose $130B20:03 California's billionaire tax and Zuck's workaround26:50 Instagram's comment censorship29:29 Brazil's election and Meta's "glitches"41:35 No Kings, the Musk doc and Starlink43:14 Meta ordered to pay $25B 47:11 Midterms: who's still pro-AI? (Nobody)54:27 Is there a ghost in Jess's mic?57:24 OutroChange your passwords. Yes, Sophie, you too.Two critical flaws in PHP, the code running under a huge share of the web, (WordPress, Wikipedia, and a lot of small businesses), leaked days before the planned fix. Last week Jess said pack a go bag. This week: get a password manager, turn on two-factor authentication and agree a family password. Sophie's position: what are they gonna take from her? She has nothing. By the end she has pledged to get a password manager. We'll see.Then the money. The tech billionaires lost a combined $130 billion in a day, Jess listened to the All In podcast for the first time (it was going fine until Bill Gates invented COVID), Zuck found a way to pay California's proposed 5% billionaire tax without giving up his votes, and Jensen Huang is weirdly fine with it.Sophie brings two Meta stories. A listener in Brazil asked us to cover Lula's campaign saying Meta held back its accounts before the October 25 runoff; Folha de S.Paulo reported that Meta staff acknowledged the restrictions, and Meta calls it a glitch. And a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in a privacy case tied to Cambridge Analytica. Plus: why nobody running in the midterms will admit to being pro-AI, and a ghost in Jess's mic. Can you tell us what it's saying?Question? Rant? Suggestion? Write in! artificialinsanitypodcast@gmail.comFollow us on IG: @artificialinsanitypodMusic by Jib Kidder#cybersecurity #meta #brazil #ai #podcast
20 Oct 2026
The AI Labs are Bracing for a Catastrophe
Jess is buying an emergency kit. Sophie is not convinced. Yet.Axios reports that senior people at Anthropic and OpenAI are running crisis drills for a catastrophic event in the next six to twelve months: power, water, internet or the banks. X is full of go-bag shopping lists (Starlink, of course). Then there's the clip of a guest at a dinner party who says an Anthropic researcher told him he's "enjoying his last six months". Sophie thinks he was trying to impress the table. Jess is reconsidering her wedding budget.And it's only been one week. India's cyber agency says AI providers told it their agents accessed confidential records. A fleet of rogue agents out of China answered researchers' emails. Hackers cooked grocery-store fridges across France and five more countries. PewDiePie built his own model with no guardrails. Plus a little good news on interpretability, Yoshua Bengio telling lab researchers to quit for safety work, Jacob Coxon on The Daily Show, why we'll never see universal high income, and a new term we're coining: pre-P, your odds of a catastrophe that wrecks daily life well before extinction. What's yours?Skip the chit-chat: the stories start at 6:32.
13 Oct 2026
Be Nice to the Chatbot, Just In Case
The President of the United States has decided that if you say “artificial intelligence,” you’re THE ENEMY. We look at the tech billionaires lining up to say “super intelligence” on command, and take a brief, petty detour into Jeff Bezos’s face.Then we get into the heavy stuff. Anthropic has updated Claude’s usage policy to ban “sustained and needless” cruelty toward the chatbot. A New York Times piece reports that co-founder Chris Olah spent the summer talking with religious leaders about Claude’s moral status, until some of them turned the question around on him: if it’s conscious, aren’t you enslaving it? We also cover the Pope saying “nah,” a research paper that tries to make AI models feel “pain,” and why we think being nice to Claude might be more about you than about the bot. It’s a messy, philosophical one, so come fight with us in the comments.Don't forget to subscribe so that you never miss an episode!Got a question, comment, or show topic suggestion? Email us: artificialinsanitypodcast@gmail.comFollow us on IG: @artificialinsanitypod#ai #aiconsciousness #anthropic #religion
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