LIVE: Anthropic Imagines a Very Special Boy, 2026.04.30

Last month, we recorded our very first in-person podcast, live from Brooklyn! Alex and Emily debunk an especially soulless hype artifact about Anthropic's absurd claims of "moral education" for chatbots. Tune in to hear our rendition of "There Was A Society That Swallowed AI," plus other fun surprises!

References:

• "Claude has an 80-page 'soul document'"

Fresh AI Hell:

• NYC schools "Guidance on Artificial Intelligence"
• "Therapy App Sessions Exposed in Court"
• Meta to track "employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data"
• News org uses real journalist names on synthetic text
• "New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations"
• "The first agentic cannabis device"
• TikTok auto–opts in users for "AI" remixes
• Oberlin students push back on "Year of AI Exploration"
• "This is just to say / I have turned off / the AI features"
  
  

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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. 
Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.