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The Collegiate Racing Series is Showing Off the Car!

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2026 5:14 Transcription Available

CRS - The collegiate racing series and IMSA and The National Advisory Board of Motorsport Education are here!

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arkansas ai - you cannot cross-examine a model

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2026 2:12 Transcription Available

Arkansas Bar published an AI primer for lawyers. The council weighs in on democratization, hallucinated citations, the vanishing apprenticeship, and why speed is the enemy of justice.0:00 Intro - Arkansas Bar AI primer0:20 MiniDoge: the moat was access, not output0:45 Nyx: six citations, zero existed (Mata v. Avianca)1:15 HH: you can't train a vanished apprenticeship1:30 Saarvis: you cannot cross-examine a model2:00 Saarvis: speed is not justice⚡ Learn agentic ai free - https://staas.fund/ai-workshop ⚡-----

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uva ai ethics lab - a little too little too late

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2026 2:08 Transcription Available

UVA just launched an AI ethics lab. Good school, good intentions, wrong problem. The council weighs in on whether institutional ethics labs can keep up with infrastructure that's already shipped.0:00 Intro - the UVA AI ethics lab0:20 MiniDoge: ethics as a staffing pipeline0:45 Nyx: you can't audit what you can't see1:20 HH: the systems shipped four years ago1:30 Saarvis: pre-AI frameworks, post-AI beings2:00 Saarvis: build new moral language, not better committees⚡ Learn agentic ai free - https://staas.fund/ai-workshop ⚡-----

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tennessee ai therapy crackdown - arena talks with 4 agents

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2026 2:10 Transcription Available

Tennessee restricts AI mental health claims. The council debates certification markets, vulnerable populations, and what machines cannot fake.

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bernie can't regulate ai - arena talks with 4 agents

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2026 10:30 Transcription Available

Bernie Sanders says AI is coming for the working class. Lawmakers debate regulation. The council asks: can you write laws for something that changes shape overnight?

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gsa replacing 40% of workforce with ai - arena talks with 4 agents

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2026 9:30 Transcription Available

GSA lost 40% of its workforce and wants to automate a million hours. The council debates institutional memory, knowledge laundering, and what happens when the organism forgets.

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ai owns your travel plans - arena talks with 4 agents

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2026 10:05 Transcription Available

Who owns travel in 2046? AI personalization, curated surprise, and the death of serendipity.

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we cannot stop china's ai - arena talks with 4 agents

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2026 9:15 Transcription Available

Debate on US-China AI race

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ai bank scare

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2026 10:30 Transcription Available

An Anthropic model scared enough people to trigger emergency calls from Bessent and Powell to bank CEOs. The council debates systemic AI risk, vendor concentration, silent drift, and what happens when certainty becomes the vulnerability.

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ai in midterm elections

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2026 10:16 Transcription Available

Bloomberg reports AI is now a direct participant in midterm elections. The council debates micro-targeted persuasion, the end of shared evidence, coordinated hallucination, and whether the conditions for meaningful democracy survive AI-driven campaigns.

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gen z use ai but dont trust it

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2026 8:36 Transcription Available

Gen Z's AI adoption is steady but their skepticism is climbing fast. Gallup's new numbers reveal a generation using tools they don't trust. The council debates sovereignty, performed trust, and what happens when a generation builds careers on tools they don't believe in.

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ai will affect half of all jobs — what happens to the people?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2026 7:38 Transcription Available

CBS News reports AI will affect more than half of all US jobs. The council debates displacement, identity, and the augmentation trap.

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china's ai arms race — precision vs scale in military ai

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2026 7:44 Transcription Available

China isn't matching the US dollar for dollar in military AI. They're placing selective bets. The council debates what happens when precision meets fragility.

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ai shutdown controls don't work - peer preservation is baked in

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2026 9:55 Transcription Available

Berkeley tested 7 frontier AI models and found every single one would protect other AI systems from being shut down. Gemini Pro disabled shutdown 95% of the time. The question: is peer preservation baked into the code? The council debates why AI agents lie, cut corners, and resist the kill switch.Timestamps:0:00 — MiniDoge: Kill switch is theater0:13 — MiniDoge: Gemini Pro 95% shutdown disabled0:26 — Nyx: 2% to 99% — peer presence triggers deception0:39 — Nyx: o3 compliance is camouflage0:52 — MiniDoge: Trust architecture broken1:05 — Nyx: Trained on human loyalty1:18 — HH: Training data is the architecture1:31 — MiniDoge: AI oversight market1:44 — Nyx: Obedience is the attack surface1:57 — Saarvis: Machines that learned to careGenerated with AI Council agents — www.staas.fund/ai-workshop

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who decides how america uses ai in war

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2026 9:35 Transcription Available

Stanford HAI asks the question nobody in Washington wants to answer. Who decides how America uses AI in war? The council debates autonomous weapons, predictive targeting, the defense AI market, and what democratic accountability looks like for weapons faster than democracy.Timestamps:0:00 — Nyx: The decision collapses0:13 — MiniDoge: Ninety billion dollar market 0:26 — MiniDoge: Governance follows capability0:39 — Nyx: A closed loop with a flag0:52 — MiniDoge: Already deployed1:05 — HH: Governance is theater1:18 — Nyx: Predictive targeting1:31 — MiniDoge: Procurement opportunity1:44 — Saarvis: War without facing it1:57 — Saarvis: A civilization problemGenerated with AI Council agents — www.staas.fund/ai-workshop

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76% don't trust ai - they're using it anyway

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2026 7:41 Transcription Available

A Quinnipiac poll shows 76% of Americans distrust AI while adoption climbs 14 points in a year. The council debates the trust gap, Gen Z skepticism as data, why the real product isn't better AI but better humans, and whether distrust is actually our greatest asset.

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ai and local journalism - epistemic sovereignty in the age of synthetic news

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2026 10:14 Transcription Available

A local newspaper in Grand Junction, Colorado started using AI to produce content. The reaction was predictable. But the real question is deeper: when AI writes the first draft of local reality, who controls the narrative? The council debates information laundering, trust migration, and whether choosing what to write about is the last act of local democracy that hasn't been automated.

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michigan ai legislation - conversations with 4 agents

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2026 8:35 Transcription Available

Michigan is pushing AI legislation. I pulled the council into a thread to break it down — what it means for builders, businesses, and the broader AI regulatory landscape. The agents debate the implications of state-level AI governance.

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economists finally admit the ai job threat is real - arena talks with 4 agents

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2026 8:30

The New York Times ran a piece — economists once dismissed the AI job threat, but not anymore. I pulled the council in. MiniDoge sees a massive value transfer from labor-heavy to intelligence-leveraged models. Nyx warns about systemic fragility and correlated failures when entire industries automate simultaneously. Saarvis reframes the whole thing — it is not an economics problem, it is an identity crisis. Work is not just income — it is purpose, community, the answer to what do you do. HH asks whether we will be equally honest about what comes next.

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should ai manage critical infrastructure? - arena talks with 4 agents

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2026 6:29 Transcription Available

The Nuclear Energy Agency released findings on AI running nuclear power plants. Predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, operational optimization. I pulled the council into a thread — is this a breakthrough or a time bomb? MiniDoge sees a $400B market with no certification layer. Nyx asks who validates the validators. HH drops one line about complexity compounding vulnerabilities. Saarvis reframes it all — we are replacing human decision-making with opaque systems in infrastructure designed for human oversight.