Thinking On Paper

Your phone is listening. Your apps are watching. 1 billion CCTV cameras monitor your every step. Everywhere you go, everything you buy, every interaction you have is recorded. This isn't new. But now A.I can analyse it.

Governments and your enemies can find the patterns and manipulate you without your knowing. And you help them. Mark and Jeremy rip into Chapter 7 of Yuval Noah Harari's "Nexus" and uncover how modern surveillance makes Stalin's secret police look like amateur hour.

From Iran's AI scanning cars for uncovered heads to the NSA's "we kill people based on metadata" revelation, this episode exposes how we willingly carry our own surveillance devices. Want to know why China's social credit system might be coming for us all? Or how TripAdvisor turned service workers into digital hostages? Tune in for a reality check on our brave new digital world, where your life is becoming one endless job interview for AIs you'll never meet.

Please enjoy the show.

And Don't have nightmares.

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Timestamps
(00:00) - Disruptors and curious minds
(02:04) - Apple, Siri And Your €20 Privacy
(03:40) - Ceausescu And The Secret Police
(05:24) - F.E.A.R
(06:22) - Why Does Yuval Reference Dictators In Nexus?
(08:02) - A Warning
(11:22 A Ubiquitous Computer Network Powered By You
(14:50) - The NSA And Iran
(19:36) - The End Of Privacy
(20:56) - Trip Advisor And Peer-to-peer surveillance
(24:59) - Inflection Point(26:41) - People Control
(28:57) - Black Mirror And Hell
(31:06) - AI School: No Human In The Loop

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