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A US government official has called Anthropic a national security risk, after the company drew ethical lines around its technology being used for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. How comfortable would you be with AI firing missiles?
Plus, Facebook's parent company, Meta, sold seven million pairs of AI-enabled Ray-Ban last year. And now they want to add facial recognition. How will that change public spaces?
And, Microsoft tried to ban the word 'microslop'. It didn't go well.
GUESTS:
Seamus Byrne - tech reporter and PhD research candidate with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision Making & Society.
Hannah Geremia – digital content editor at Whistleout Singapore.

A US government official has called Anthropic a national security risk, after the company drew ethical lines around its technology being used for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. How comfortable would you be with AI firing missiles?
Plus, Facebook's parent company, Meta, sold seven million pairs of AI-enabled Ray-Ban last year. And now they want to add facial recognition. How will that change public spaces?
And, Microsoft tried to ban the word 'microslop'. It didn't go well.
GUESTS:
Seamus Byrne - tech reporter and PhD research candidate with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision Making & Society.
Hannah Geremia – digital content editor at Whistleout Singapore.

A US government official has called Anthropic a national security risk, after the company drew ethical lines around its technology being used for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. How comfortable would you be with AI firing missiles?
Plus, Facebook's parent company, Meta, sold seven million pairs of AI-enabled Ray-Ban last year. And now they want to add facial recognition. How will that change public spaces?
And, Microsoft tried to ban the word 'microslop'. It didn't go well.
GUESTS:
Seamus Byrne - tech reporter and PhD research candidate with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision Making & Society.
Hannah Geremia – digital content editor at Whistleout Singapore.

New research about the social media platform X suggests that just a few weeks on what used to be Twitter can shift political attitudes AND the effects can last long after we log off. So is it really possible to use these sites at all without being affected by the system?
Plus, Australia's planned AI advisory body has been scrapped after 15 months of preparation. It's been replaced by the Australian AI Safety Institute. What does this mean for AI regulation?
And, scientists have found a way to make 3D printed guns traceable.
GUESTS:
Seamus Byrne, tech reporter and PhD research candidate.
Erica Mealy, senior lecturer of computer science at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
This episode was produced on the lands of the Burramattagal people.

AI is sliding into game development pipelines, but the rules around telling players what is machine-made and what is made by people are patchy at best. So, how much transparency do players deserve, and does it even matter?
Also on the program, how the RAM shortage is impacting the price of game consoles. And, why VR is better suited to the medical and training fields than replacing the open-plan office.
GUESTS: 
Chloe Appleby, games curator at the Powerhouse Museum. 
Alex Kidman, freelance technology journalist at Alex Reviews Tech.
This episode was produced on the lands of the Burramattagal people.
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