Leaked document reveals Microsoft wants you "addicted" to their product

While Meta and Google are fighting lawsuits about their technology being intentionally addictive, Microsoft’s strategy deck for their new AI assistant Scout has been leaked. It lays out three phases of launch, and phase one is simply "make people addicted."

Apple just held it’s Worldwide Developers Conference, where they announced an "entirely new version of Siri". How different can this Siri be?

And the Mythos tool Anthropic claimed was too powerful to be released to the public... has been released to the public. What could possibly go wrong?

GUESTS:

• Dr Erica Mealy, Discipline Lead for Technology, at the University of the Sunshine Coast
• Tobias Venus, tech and travel journalist.

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This episode was produced on the lands of the Gadigal and Burramattagal people.

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