Untangled with Charley Johnson

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Flattery as a Feature: Rethinking 'AI Sycophancy'
PLUS: Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud
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Thereā€™s no such thing as ā€˜fully autonomousā€™ agents
Donā€™t ā€˜fully self-driveā€™ yourself to an early graveā€¦
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How to analyze the frames and metaphors that hide power in AI
A guide to interrogating rhetorical power in sociotechnical systems
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Trapped by the Pursuit of Efficiency
When tech is the end goal, we lose sight of everything that truly matters.
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Can we democratize AI?
My conversation with Divya Siddarth, Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project
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Is AI snake oil?
An interview with Princeton Professor Arvind Narayanan
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The potential of public AI
An interview with Mozilla's Nik Marda and Jasmine Sun
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Jasmine Sun
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OpenAIā€™s mythology, Metaā€™s secret, and Microsoftā€™s hypocrisy.
An interview with AI writer and reporter, Karen Hao
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35:51
No, OpenAIā€™s new model is not ā€˜reasoning.ā€™
Happy 10 Year Anniversary, Data & Society!
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A world overrun by AI agents w/Evan Ratliff
My conversation with the host of the fascinating and funny new podcast, Shell Game
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Itā€™s okay to not know the answer
We donā€™t know the difference between risk and uncertainty and it shows
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Interdependence, not innovation
Read to the end for a Big Announcement.
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