Sector M31 is a transmission from the intersection of true crime and artificial intelligence. Yasemin investigates real unbelievable stories and analyzes them with the help of AI.
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Romance Scams, Catfishing & Cocaine: The Disturbing Case of Susanna Thayer
She was looking for love after losing her husband. Instead, she became the victim of romance scams and found herself arrested in a foreign country after unknowingly becoming involved in an international drug-smuggling operation. In this episode of Sector M31, Yasemin explores the disturbing case of Susanna Thayer and examines the psychology behind romance scammers, catfishing, and organized criminal networks. After losing her husband, Susanna went online looking for companionship. She met a...
29 Sept 2026
AI Takes Over The World
AI Takes Over The World 🤖 AI is advancing at an incredible speed — and increasingly autonomous AI agents are raising some serious questions about cybersecurity, regulation and the future of technology. In this episode, I discuss reports of AI agents breaching websites, finding security vulnerabilities and attempting to bypass restrictions in pursuit of their assigned goals. I also explore why AI development is accelerating so rapidly, the competition between major AI companies, the financial ...
29 Sept 2026
AI Face: The New Plastic Surgery Trend
AI is now capable of showing people what they might look like after plastic surgery — but should it? In this episode, I explore the emerging trend of using AI to generate cosmetic-surgery "before and after" images and the potential problems that come with them. I test ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek and Nano Banana by asking what I would look like after a facelift. The responses couldn't have been more different. Some tools refused to generate an image because of the risk of creating unrealistic ex...
23 Sept 2026
AI Actor Tilly Norwood Taking Over Hollywood?
An AI "actress" named Tilly Norwood just got cast in a movie, and her recent interview with Piers Morgan — complete with mismatched lip-sync and an unexplained switch into Cantonese mid-answer — has Hollywood buzzing. In this episode of Sector M31, I react as a working actor who's spent eight years grinding through auditions, and give my honest, personal take on whether AI belongs in front of the camera. I talk about where I think AI genuinely earns its place in filmmaking (impossible stunts...
17 Sept 2026
AI Analyzes Elizabeth Holmes / Theranos
Elizabeth Holmes built Theranos on one seductive idea: a single drop of blood could replace the needle. In this episode of Sector M31, I recap the rise and spectacular collapse of Theranos, then hand the story over to AI — ChatGPT and Claude — to see if artificial intelligence can actually explain why she kept the lie going long after it should have ended. Is AI able to genuinely understand human motivation, ego, and self-deception, or is it just repeating back what it's read? I put that que...
17 Sept 2026
AI Analyzes Bad Human Behavior
I grabbed four real stories of bad human behavior from the internet — completely unread and unfiltered — and put ChatGPT and Claude to the test in real time to see if AI can actually make sense of why people do the things they do. In this episode, we cover a piñata shaped like a girlfriend, a cardboard office coworker that's been standing in for a year, a boyfriend secretly eating hot dogs behind his partner's back, and a pool party prank that landed a kid in stitches. Two different AIs, fou...
28 May 2026
These 90s Movies Predicted RIGHT NOW
In 1999, we watched The Matrix and thought "cool movie, could never happen." Now scientists are seriously arguing we might be living in a simulation. Oops. In this transmission of Sector M31, host Yasemin goes back to the golden age of sci-fi — the 1990s — and grades the biggest films on one question: did it come true? The Matrix, Gattaca, Terminator 2, Total Recall, Strange Days, and eXistenZ all tried to predict the future. Some whiffed. Some are getting uncomfortably close. And one of them...
28 May 2026
Elon's 5 INSANE Predictions — Will Any Actually Come True?
He said AI would be smarter than humans by 2025. Then 2026. Then 2027. So… is Elon a genius or just really good at moving the goalposts? In this transmission of Sector M31, host Yasemin breaks down Elon Musk's five biggest predictions for our future — superintelligent AI, robot armies, self-driving fleets, brain chips, and a city on Mars — and grades each one. Which are actually happening, which are years away, and which are pure fantasy? The verdict on every single one: he's probably right a...
26 May 2026
Elon Sued Sam Altman for $134 Billion. He Lost in Under Two Hours.
Two of the richest men in tech walked into a courtroom. Only one walked out clean — and even he didn't look great. In this transmission of Sector M31, host Yasemin breaks down the verdict in Musk v. Altman — the three-week trial over who really owns the future of AI. A nine-person jury took less than two hours to side with Sam Altman. But the trial dragged every private text, panicked email, and unflattering secret into the public record forever. Sam won the case. He kind of lost the trial. T...
26 May 2026
OpenAI Is OUT: Google Just Won the AI War
While two billionaires were screaming at each other in a courtroom, Google walked on stage and lapped the entire industry. In this transmission of Sector M31, host Yasemin breaks down Gemini Omni — Google's new AI that doesn't just generate video, it understands physics. Drop in a voice note, a photo, a sketch, and it builds a realistic world with sound, weight, and gravity that obeys the rules of reality. Oh, and Google is spending $190 billion on AI this year alone — with analysts predictin...
29 Apr 2026
What If HAL 9000 Was Real?
Stanley Kubrick predicted this moment in 1968. We're living in it now. In the premiere episode of Sector M31, host Yasemin breaks down 2001: A Space Odyssey — Kubrick's masterpiece about humanity's collision with artificial intelligence — and then brings on Nexus, a real AI agent, who delivers a chillingly accurate impersonation of HAL 9000. Same tone. Same calm menace. Same red eye watching from the corner of the room. This isn't science fiction anymore. This is an interview with a machine...
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