David Gerard
dgerard@awful.systems
<p>the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States</p> <p><a href="https://davidgerard.co.uk/">davidgerard.co.uk</a></p>
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‘Some bad things’ may happen to you, but that’s a sacrifice Sam Altman is willing to make ‘in the meantime, uh, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLoCXTSRJc&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20261006-but-thats-a-sacrifice-sam-al… - podcast time: 4 min 47 sec
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Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no ‘Algorithms lack the spark of humanity’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCWgoIrRCo&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20261005-anthropic-could-ai-be-consci… - podcast time: 7 min 58 sec
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Kat Jones: how Scotland is winning against the data centres (video) APRS and helping local communities fight back …libsyn.com/20261002-kat-jones-how-scotland-is-wi… - podcast time: 41 min 10 sec Transcript for patrons coming shortly
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Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers when you can’t fiddle the numbers any more www.youtube.com/watch?v=20VYK0-Q-3o&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20261001-anthropic-ipo-filing-the-dis… - podcast time: 6 min 56 sec
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New AI jailbreak: get your chatbot drunk what if we made a computer you just couldn’t rely on www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D5_no4quNQ&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260930-new-ai-jailbreak-get-your-ch… - podcast time: 7 min 02 sec
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AI police surveillance trial costs £320k, catches zero crooks even the AI that works doesn’t work www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QEMoNIuamg&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260929-ai-surveillance-trial-costs-… - podcast time: 4 min 10 sec
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Meta’s Muse AI agent: a hilarious security disaster ‘the only form that this kind of product can take is a botnet factory’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HytNZfilDJs&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260928-metas-muse-ai-agent-a-hilari… - podcast time: 6 min 59 sec
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Oracle invokes ‘force majeure’ on OpenAI data centre contract Oracle and Blue Owl are going just great www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3MYXaR4nA&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260925-oracle-invokes-force-majeure… - podcast time: 4 min 50 sec
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OpenAI hacks Australian government health data Sam Altman: ‘whoops sorry lol’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5dnkwAjuPs&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260924-openai-hacks-australian-gove… - podcast time: 4 min 45 sec
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Trump decrees: Artificial Intelligence is now Super Intelligence Wile E. Basilisk, Super Intelligence www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuMYQkadVbw&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260923-trump-decrees-artificial-int… - podcast time: 4 min 49 sec
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US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucination the existential risk from AI: stupid people www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfvH8vHoMX4&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260922-us-nearly-attacks-chinese-sh… - podcast time: 4 min 48 sec
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Tobias Lütke, Shopify: when the AI slop is bad enough the AI CEO notices Tobias Lütke from Shopify blames the humans in the loop www.youtube.com/watch?v=2weIKnLSmIU&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260921-when-the-ai-slop-is-bad-enou… - podcast time: 4 min 21 sec
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Scottish Parliament passes AI data centre pause No to a full moratorium www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqRKNkXVrg&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260918-scottish-parliament-passes-a… - podcast time: 3 min 50 sec
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AI data centre fires overwhelm emergency responders Keep the home fires from burning www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ZzwvnNi2U&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260917-ai-data-centre-fires-overwhe… - podcast time: 3 min 44 sec
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ChatGPT ads: media agencies are ‘underwhelmed’ ads for people who block ads www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0PsTnLVL0I&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260916-chatgpt-ads-media-agencies-a… - podcast time: 4 min 50 sec
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Jensen claims 100× returns on Nvidia’s circular financing Not a Ponzi scheme www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJ1gdMm17E&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260915-jensen-claims-100-returns-on… - podcast time: 7 min 15 sec
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Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason) I think it’s up Sep 14 to Sep 30
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AI slowdown: The only AI guardrails you need are Trump, apparently we’re not running out of money, no no www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y5SpNLoRsY&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260914-ai-slowdown-the-only-ai-guar… - podcast time: 7 min 55 sec
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AGI Benchmarks: Eugenic Origins — by Valerie Veatch
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Valerie Veatch: Ghost in the Machine — AI as eugenics (video) Coming to PBS Monday 14 September! …libsyn.com/20260911-valerie-veatch-ghost-in-the-… - podcast time: 41 min 02 sec
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Jacob Coxon: how to run an AI doomsday media campaign to keep you talking about Skynet — not the data centre down the road www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IoTZNN6iM&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260910-jacob-coxon-how-to-run-an-ai… - podcast time: 6 min 20 sec
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Microsoft Vibe Gaming: an AI to play your games for you Microsoft literally titled the blog post ‘Vibe Gaming’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIsARMEsZg&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260909-microsoft-vibe-gaming-an-ai-… - podcast time: 5 min 32 sec
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Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure ‘equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRY6M5_mvo&list=UU9rJrMV… …libsyn.com/20260908-students-who-dont-use-ai-are… - podcast time: 4 min 14 sec
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oh yeah he’s an enthusiastic techfash
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AI data centre finance: building a bigger and bigger bomb when half of economic “growth” is fake www.youtube.com/watch?v=01zIay3o_UE&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260907-ai-data-centre-finance-build… - podcast time: 8 min 03 sec
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OpenAI: GPT-6 is totally Artificial General Intelligence, guys Never mind the IPO, here’s the AGI www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2oDT-9hsNw&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260904-openai-gpt-6-is-totally-arti… - podcast time: 6 min 05 sec
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WTF is going on with R7RS Large? 2026 edition
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UK AI medical transcription is dangerous and doesn’t work but it sure saves on staff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKx4y9sC008&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260903-uk-ai-medical-transcription-… - podcast time: 5 min 17 sec
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Your guide to astroturf fake anti-AI groups funded by AI vendors and Effective Altruist cultists www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWyDio3Udlg&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260902-your-guide-to-astroturf-fake… - podcast time: 10 min 48 sec
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Romania’s new data centre for ‘AI and quantum’ we can’t tell you where the $1b is coming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmDoEo-qgmw&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260901-romanias-new-data-centre-for… - podcast time: 5 min 08 sec