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    • ai:Pod 070 – Is AI Deciding What Truth You’re Allowed to See?

      What Could Possibly Go Wrong with AI? 2026 Industrialized Censorship The Digital Services Act (DSA) delegates judicial power to private “trusted flaggers,” enabling political control through mechanisms like shadow banning. Cognitive Debt: Heavy reliance on AI for writing and analysis causes individuals to surrender their cognitive sovereignty, making them more susceptible to manipulation. Mass Surveillance:…

    • ai:Pod 067 – Fiction or Fact? Why AI Fabulation Is Your Problem to Solve

      Three weeks!That’s how long it takes for most people to go from “AI is going to change everything” to quietly closing the tab and doing the work themselves. A Microsoft study tracking 300,000 employees found a pattern: excitement spikes when people first use AI tools, then crashes. Outputs feel generic. The AI sounds confident but…

    • ai:Pod 061 – We Are Building Risky AI Teammates

      From Word-lego Blocks towards Your Super-Smart AI Friends: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 2026 AI Revelations and Predictions From Nobel Prize in Physics, “AI-godfather” Professor Geoffrey Hinton and UX design and Usability-guru, Pioneer Jakob Nielsen. Ever wondered how AI goes from playing with word blocks to becoming a super-smart teammate? In this article, we explore…

    • Happy New Year 2026! Symbols for Hope & Unity. Life after AI?

      Happy 2026 for All Genres (& Genders) – with or without AI. I have two things for you for celebrating the New Year: A New Symbol of Unity traffic light design, and a new Gemini 3 “Gem” app that makes it easy for you to navigate kinokast and ai:Pods A New Symbol of Unity, a…

    • ai:Pod 057 – A Very-Tiny Christmas Story

      Read a very short story I wrote for Christmas 2025 in Berlin. Spoiler: it is about Alex and Lia. Be ready for some healthy (self) irony. Uncover a coming realm of liberated, human obsolescence. Listen to the aiPod 057 podcast Exploring intelligence’s algorithmic wasteland, prompts reveal routes to the human obsolete, requiring repetition, resignation, and…

    • Apr 9, 2018 Official audio for "Fight to Survive" ft. Mr. Lif from the album "The Temple of I & I" Available at: https://thieverycorporation.com/temple

      ai:Pod 055 – The Wisdom Gap: Why Human Minds Must Adapt to “Alien Intelligence” (AI, 2026)

      5 Truths About Artificial Intelligence in 2026 Based on recent research and reporting, these truths challenge our core assumptions about what this technology is and where it is leading us. Here are five astonishing facts that reveal the true nature of the AI revolution. Featured Header image:Apr 9, 2018 Official audio for “Fight to Survive”…

    • ai:Pod 051 – Paradigm Shift in AI Continual Learning (Ilyia Sutskever, 2025)

      The End of an Era The great AI “Age of Scaling” is coming to a close. This period, roughly spanning 2020 to 2025, was defined by a deceptively simple recipe for progress: add more data and more compute to get a better model. This low-risk strategy fueled an unprecedented boom, but it is now hitting…

    • ai:Pod 050 – Nothing artificial about AI. Dis-education is looming…

      Beyond Data Theft: Linguistic “Dis-education” in the Age of World Models (“spatial AI”) November 2025 To the NotebookLM: ai:Pod 050 – Nothing artificial about AI – Linguistic Vulnerability: Data Leaks & Dis-education. Curated current research sources in the ai:Pod 050 include: Emad Mostaque (Open source AI, co-founder of AI)Geoffrey Hinton (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2024,…

    • ai:Pod 046 – On Performance vs Robustness: Hamant, Zucman & Perrow (2025)

      2% chance against the global spreading of “Normal Accidents”.Shifting The Goals of Performance Towards Creating Robustness in System Biology and Fiscal Economics (Charles Perrow, Olivier Hamant, Gabriel Zucman) November 2025 “Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies” is a 1984 book by Yale sociologist Charles Perrow, which analyses complex systems from a sociological perspective. Perrow argues…

    • ai:Pod 045 – AI’s Impact on Security, Education, and Your Career

      Beyond the Carrot we all do need for going forward… Hardly half a day passes without headlines heralding another rapid advancement in Artificial Intelligence. We are told that AI is getting smarter, faster, and more capable at an exponential rate. But the most critical insights about AI’s true impact are not in the headlines. They…

    • ai:Pod 042 – Decoding the Fiscal Class War (Bourdieu, Zucman)

      5 Surprising Truths About Wealth and Power in 2025 English How French Socioliogist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Explains Economist Gabriel Zucman’s Tax Fights in France and abroad in 2025 The public debate over wealth inequality often feels like a confusing shouting match. When economists like Gabriel Zucman, a student of world renown French economist Thomas Piketty,…

    • ai:Pod 041 – Political Economy of Control and Social exploitation with AI

      The Algorithm’s True Cost: 5 Disturbing AI Realities We Need to Really Face Beyond the Buzzwords Every day, we are told that Artificial Intelligence is a revolutionary force poised to reshape our world. The headlines promise unprecedented efficiency, boundless creativity, and a future free from human drudgery. This narrative of inevitable progress is powerful, persistent,…

    • ai:Pod 039 – Insights into France’s Political Crisis (2025, 2026…)

      French academic scientists, the economist Frederic Lordon and philosopher Barbara Stiegler on failing neoliberalism embodied by French President Emmanuel Macron (2025) French text below | Lire en langue française A quite serious note about this GenAI header image taken from Jakob Nielsen’ blog, I oppose but purposely present here This ai:Pod podcast and article in…

    • ai:Pod 035 – How to Fight Fascism with Political Sciences

      To the aiPods list Five Radical Ideas Reshaping Our Understanding of Power, Work and Politics Reclaiming sovereignty—over our work, minds, and political systems—against those who control our lives These five ideas share a common thread: reclaiming sovereignty—over our work, minds, and political systems—against those who control our lives. Naar Nederlands This essay explores five transformative…

    • ai:Pod 034 – The UX Designer’s Guide to AI That Actually Works

      Explore & learn with AI – The UX Designer’s Guide to AI That Actually Works Designing the user experience for Human Agentic Interaction (Audio: English, French, Dutch) Building AI interfaces feels like trying to sketch something that’s constantly changing shape. One moment you think you understand how users will interact with your system, the next…

    • ai:Pod 030 – Education is Survival; The ‘Cognitive Debt’ of Learning with AI (MIT)

      aiPod episode 030, “The Fragile Architecture of Trust: Humanity’s Organic Shield Against AI’s Radical Unintelligence,” examines the delicate balance between human trust and AI’s limitations. The episode emphasizes the importance of transparency and ethical considerations in AI development, highlighting the need for human oversight to ensure AI serves as a beneficial tool.

    • Did Dutch Chip Giant ASML Just Snap Up French Mistral AI for a Bargain?

      Dutch chipmaker ASML is investing 1.3 billion euros in French AI startup Mistral AI in a bid to boost Europe’s tech independence. The deal puts Mistral’s valuation at nearly $12 billion. Reuters reports that ASML is leading a Series C funding round totaling 1.7 billion euros (about $2 billion), making it Mistral’s largest shareholder. ASML…

    • ai:Pod 028 – AI, Your Brain, and the Art of Staying Human

      AI and Your Brain Resilience – Navigating Hype Technology and True Human Connection Snake oil potential: Unlock Your Brain’s Full Potential in the AI Era? Introducing a potentially controversial mimic aiPod 028! Are you navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence and wondering about its true impact on your brein…

    • ai:Pod 027 -Israel Conflict in Gaza: AI Big Tech Profitable Genocide?

      The provided sources collectively examine the Israel conflict in Gaza, highlighting its complex dimensions, including its characterization as a genocidal campaign fueled by a profitable business model and corporate complicity from tech giants. They discuss how the conflict is sustained by a deep-seated ideology of Jewish supremacy and a “rules-based order” that is, in actuality,…

    • Essay on Interpassive Photography: My Original Research updated with AI (2005+2025)

      In the essay from 2005 revisited by AI in 2025, I explore “Alternative Interpassivity” in architecture photography, positioning it as a philosophical and artistic approach that contrasts with hyper-consumerism and traditional notions of spectacle. I discuss the historical influence of classical and modern architectural figures, like Vitruvius and Le Corbusier, as well as post-modernism in…

    • AI Job Interview Scam or Dark UX? How Perplexity AI Uncovered the Truth

      Perplexity.ai helps me check a VOX AI, clear AI job interview scam or at least, a badly done AI job, or plain UX black pattern?