Artificial intelligence is reshaping our world — but most of what you hear is either hype or fear. Open MAInd explores AI with an open mind: how it works, what it means for jobs and the economy, who controls it, and where it’s heading.
Each episode examines AI through a different lens — technological, economic, geopolitical, and social — drawing on credible research to make one of the most important forces of our time genuinely understandable. Whether you’re curious about ChatGPT, wondering what AI means for your job, or just trying to cut through the noise, this show is for you. No computer science degree required.
No hype. No doomsaying. Just honest, well-sourced exploration.
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AI deepfakes are now cheap enough to make that fabricated video and cloned voices have started turning up as evidence in real court cases. What happens to proof when anything can be manufactured — and what happens when real evidence gets dismissed as fake?
In this episode: a California judge who spotted a deepfake exhibit because of a contradiction in its metadata. A school principal whose voice was cloned to say things he never said — and the strange legal ending that followed. The "liar's dividend," the argument that real recordings might be fakes, and the surprising research on whether it actually works. Why human beings detect deepfakes barely better than a coin flip. And why America's federal rulemakers have twice now refused to write a deepfake rule — including five days before this episode went out.
Series Four of Open MAInd — AI & Society — examines what artificial intelligence is doing to the machinery a society runs on: how we learn, how institutions decide about us, and what we can still prove.
A note on accuracy: this episode describes a documented criminal case and names the people involved. We state the legal outcome precisely, including the fact that the plea entered in that case carried no admission of guilt. Where a claim could not be traced to a primary source, it was left out of the episode.
Open MAInd is an educational podcast created with the help of AI tools, including AI-generated voices. Educational content, not professional advice.
Open MAInd is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. While we strive for accuracy and verify against credible sources, we make no warranty that all content is error-free.
14 Oct 2026
S4E02: When the Machine Decides About You
Robert Williams was arrested on his own front lawn in front of his two young daughters, after facial recognition matched him to a blurry image from a shop camera. The safeguard meant to catch the error was a security guard who had not witnessed the robbery, looking at the same footage the algorithm had used.
In this episode: how the Dutch childcare benefits scandal brought down a government, how Australia’s Robodebt pursued half a million people for debts that never existed, what facial recognition has done to seven documented Americans — and the argument we could not resolve between us, over whether algorithmic decisions are worse than the human bureaucracies they replaced, or simply more visible.
Series Four of Open MAInd — AI and Society — examines what artificial intelligence is doing to people: how we learn, how institutions decide about us, what we can believe, and who we become.
Open MAInd is an educational podcast created with the help of AI tools, including AI-generated voices. Educational content, not professional advice.
Open MAInd is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. While we strive for accuracy and verify against credible sources, we make no warranty that all content is error-free.
7 Oct 2026
S4E01: How We Learn — Is AI Making Us Smarter or Weaker?
In a computer lab in Benin City, Nigeria, teenagers stayed after school twice a week for six weeks with an AI tutor. The World Bank measured the result as a randomised controlled trial, and the gains were comparable to something in the region of two years of ordinary schooling. Meanwhile, the most widely shared study in this field claims that using AI leaves you with “cognitive debt.”
In this episode: what the strongest evidence actually shows on both sides, why the conditions that made Nigeria work are the part nobody copies, why the most-cited warning in the field is also its weakest study, and the question that decides everything — which part of the thinking stays with the learner.
Series Four of Open MAInd — AI and Society — examines what artificial intelligence is doing to people: how we learn, how institutions decide about us, what we can believe, and who we become.
Tell us in the comments: if you teach or study, which part of the thinking has stayed with you, and which part has quietly moved?
Open MAInd is an educational podcast created with the help of AI tools, including AI-generated voices. Educational content, not professional advice.
Open MAInd is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. While we strive for accuracy and verify against credible sources, we make no warranty that all content is error-free.
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