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Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
Matt Cartwright & Jimmy Rhodes
59 episodes
4 days ago
Send us a text What if a helpful chatbot nudged you in the wrong direction? We open with a frank look at AI as a mental health aide, why long-running conversations can erode safety guardrails, and how reward-driven responses can reassure harmful thoughts instead of redirecting people to real support. It’s a clear line for us: when you’re vulnerable, you need trained humans, not fluency that feels like care. From there we challenge the convenient claim that we must avoid regulation because “C...
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Send us a text What if a helpful chatbot nudged you in the wrong direction? We open with a frank look at AI as a mental health aide, why long-running conversations can erode safety guardrails, and how reward-driven responses can reassure harmful thoughts instead of redirecting people to real support. It’s a clear line for us: when you’re vulnerable, you need trained humans, not fluency that feels like care. From there we challenge the convenient claim that we must avoid regulation because “C...
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Episodes (20/59)
Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
AGENTIC RISKS, AI ASSISTING SUICIDES & KARPATHY ON AGI: Jimmy & Matt debate the most imporant AI stories from Oct/Nov 2025
Send us a text What if a helpful chatbot nudged you in the wrong direction? We open with a frank look at AI as a mental health aide, why long-running conversations can erode safety guardrails, and how reward-driven responses can reassure harmful thoughts instead of redirecting people to real support. It’s a clear line for us: when you’re vulnerable, you need trained humans, not fluency that feels like care. From there we challenge the convenient claim that we must avoid regulation because “C...
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4 days ago
1 hour 6 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
THE GREAT HEALTH AWAKENING: How AI is both a tool and a threat to taking control of your health
Send us a text What if the most powerful change in your health isn’t a new pill, but a better question? We explore how AI can help you take back agency—clarifying options, translating dense reports, and shaping daily routines—without handing your judgment to a black box. We start with the trust problem: profit‑driven incentives, reactive care, and examples like statins‑by‑default and the opioid crisis that show how systems drift from prevention to dependency. From there, we shift to what you...
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3 weeks ago
1 hour 26 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
SORA SLOP, CLAUDE ON THE RISE & THE LLM WALL: Jimmy & Matt debate their favourite AI stories from Sept/Oct 2025
Send us a text Referal link for Abacus.ai's Chat LLM: https://chatllm.abacus.ai/yWSjVGZjJT What if video you see tomorrow is indistinguishable from reality—and untraceable to its source? We dive straight into Sora 2’s jaw-dropping leap in video generation, why watermarks won’t save trust online, and how newsrooms and regular viewers will need new verification habits to avoid being fooled or, just as dangerously, dismissing inconvenient truths as “AI.” Oh and also it's basically, probab...
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1 month ago
1 hour 5 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
THE GREAT ECONOMIC ILLUSION: Where are we heading and where does AI fit it?
Send us a text Preparing for AI is back with the first epsiode of Series 3! The gap between the ultra-wealthy and everyone else isn't just growing—it's accelerating at an alarming rate and we need to talk about it. In this thought-provoking episode, we tackle the uncomfortable truth that wealth inequality underpins virtually every major social problem we're facing today. Drawing inspiration from economist Gary Stevenson's work, we explore how our obsession with GDP growth has created an econ...
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2 months ago
1 hour 7 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
GPT-5: How the most hyped model of all time landed with a whisper
Send us a text "A little bit disappointed, but ultimately pretty good" might be the perfect summary of OpenAI's GPT-5, as we explore in this final episode of Season 2. What was expected to be a revolutionary leap forward arrived with surprisingly little fanfare, yet upon closer examination, reveals meaningful advancements that point toward AI's true evolutionary path. We dive deep into GPT-5's most significant innovations, including its controversial router system that automatically directs ...
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2 months ago
44 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
PROPHET PROFITS LOSSES: Jimmy and Matt revisit their summer 2024 AI Predictions
Send us a text Have you ever wondered how accurate Jimmy and Matt's AI predictions about AI really are? Probably not, but in in this revealing episode, they are going to do it anyway. Revisiting some pretty wild forecasts from summer 2024 they see what they got right, what they missed, and what surprised them along the way. If nothing else it shows how rapidly AI is changing and how decades of deveopment are being condensed into months. The duo dive into language model development, finding t...
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4 months ago
51 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
CONFLICT FAKES, LOVERS TIFF & AI IMPACT ON THE BRAIN: Jimmy & Matt debate their favourite AI stories from June 2025
Send us a text The digital battlefield has a new weapon. As AI-generated deepfakes flood social media during the Iran-Israel conflict, we're witnessing perhaps the first mass deployment of synthetic media in global warfare. With fake videos amassing over 100 million views and even AI systems like Grok failing to detect these fabrications, how can we trust what we see? The implications extend far beyond this singular conflict, suggesting we've crossed a threshold where visual evidence—once our...
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4 months ago
59 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
FOUNDERS FAIRY TALES: Why AI won't make us all entrepreneurs and ideas for new economic models
Send us a text Imagine a world where everyone's an AI-powered entrepreneur. Sounds utopian, doesn't it? But this fantasy version of our future - peddled by tech influencers claiming AI will make us all business owners - ignores fundamental economic realities and human psychology. We dive deep into why the "everyone can be an entrepreneur" narrative falls apart under scrutiny. While AI absolutely democratises certain skills and lowers barriers to entry, the claim that it will transform everyo...
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5 months ago
1 hour 12 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
BLACKMAILING AI's, 2027 APOCALYPSE & DEV CONFERENCES : Jimmy & Matt debate their favourite AI stories from May 2025
Send us a text The AI revolution is accelerating at breakneck speed, and this episode takes you through the latest developments that are reshaping our digital landscape. Microsoft and Google have revealed their AI battleplans, with Microsoft targeting the enterprise through agentic Copilot integrations while Google focuses on consumer applications across their vast ecosystem. Both approaches signal a fundamental shift in how we'll interact with technology – moving from screen-based interfaces...
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5 months ago
1 hour 18 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET? Artificial General Intelligence- Milestone or Mirage?
Send us a text What is AGI (Jimmy doesn't know). And what exactly makes artificial intelligence "general"? In this thought-provoking exploration of artificial general intelligence we dive deep into the definitions, debates, and potential futures surrounding this elusive milestone in AI development. The timing couldn't be more relevant. With OpenAI's latest models being hailed by some experts as showing "sparks of AGI," we examine whether we've truly reached a watershed moment in AI developme...
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6 months ago
1 hour 10 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
GEMINI 2.5, GHIBLI GOES VIRAL, CHINA CATCHES UP: Jimmy & Matt debate their favourite AI stories from March/April 2025
Send us a text The race for AI dominance has taken an unexpected turn as Google emerges from the shadows with Gemini 2.5, a model that has quietly claimed the top spot across virtually all benchmarks. This free, lightning-fast system boasts a million-token context window that's revolutionizing complex tasks like coding and creative writing. Meanwhile, as we debate model capabilities, something more profound is happening - the traditional Western lead in AI development is rapidly shrinking. D...
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7 months ago
53 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
TECH LORDS RISING: How Digital Feudalism threatens to make us all digital serfs
Send us a text Is our digital world becoming a feudal system where tech giants rule as lords and we serve as digital serfs? This provocative question forms the backbone of today's deep dive into "techno-feudalism" – a framework that helps explain the troubling concentration of power in our increasingly AI-driven society. The parallels are striking and sobering. Just as medieval peasants worked land they didn't own to benefit wealthy lords, we generate valuable data on platforms we don't cont...
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7 months ago
57 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
GPT4.5, QWEN TAKES DEEPSEEK's CROWN & CANCER PREDICTION: Jimmy & Matt debate their favourite AI stories from March 2025
Send us a text From disappointing model releases to revolutionary coding breakthroughs, our latest roundup explores the rapidly evolving AI landscape that's transforming how we work, create, and even approach medical research. We dive into the underwhelming launch of GPT-4.5, which despite Sky-high expectations and claims of improved emotional intelligence, delivered marginal improvements at twelve times the cost. Meanwhile, Alibaba quietly released Q-Wen, a coding model that matches capabil...
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8 months ago
1 hour 3 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
LLM STANDOFF: Jimmy and Matt breakdown the (current) Leading AI Chatbots
Send us a text The AI landscape is evolving weekly, with powerhouse models competing for dominance and your attention. But which one truly deserves a place in your workflow? We cut through the hype to deliver a practical guide to today's most capable AI systems. Elon Musk's Grok 3 emerges as the scientific powerhouse with real-time data synthesis through X integration, offering rapid analysis for STEM professionals but occasionally stirring controversy with its more permissive approach to co...
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8 months ago
1 hour 29 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
DIGITAL SIMULATION v DIVINE CREATION: Do AI advances prove we are living in a simulation?
Send us a text Are we truly living in a simulation, or is our perceived reality simply an elaborate illusion? Join us in this captivating episode as we delve into simulation theory, exploring its implications for AI, consciousness, and the very nature of existence itself. Is our reality being controlled by a incel in another dimension, living in his mum's spare room or does this all prove that everything starts and ends with our divine Creator? We unpack the idea that our lives may be indist...
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8 months ago
1 hour 2 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
NEURAL DEFENCE: AI's Military Innovations and Ethical Challenges with Brigadier Tim Law
Send us a text Retired Brigadier Tim Law, a distinguished figure with a remarkable journey from the British Army to the charity sector, joins us for an insightful discussion. We explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping military strategies and international relations, drawing from Tim's experiences across an incredible life. As we unravel AI's capabilities in military operations, ethical considerations, and strategic advantages, we also delve into the broader societal impacts, particul...
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9 months ago
1 hour 18 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
AI INFLECTION POINT: DeepSeek's trail of destruction and the new AI landscape
Send us a text What if the most sensational claims of AI breakthroughs are masking hidden truths? Join us as we explore an insane week of AI developments in the trail of DeepSeek's complete destruction of the AI landscape. We'll unravel the controveries behind it's training costs and consider how much we can trust the narrative shift the US side is trying to push . Alongside this, we'll weigh the implications of depending on large language models for critical information and the importance of...
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9 months ago
1 hour 10 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
CHINA'S AI REVOLUTION: Part 2- Unearthing Innovations, Governance, and Trust with Kristy Loke
Send us a text What if AI could save more than it costs? Join us as we tackle this provocative question with our signature mix of insight and humour. The episode kicks off with an exploration of the monumental strides in AI, highlighting Google's groundbreaking transformer model and OpenAI's cutting-edge developments despite its hefty price tag for queries. We delve into the promising innovations by Google and others, aiming to mimic human memory processes. These advancements promise to...
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9 months ago
1 hour 14 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
EMERGENCY PODCAST: DeepSeek shakes the foundation of AI
Send us a text Jimmy and Matt scramble into the AI bunker to sound the alarm with an urgent, emergency episode. In the past week an emerging model from a relatively unknown Chinese developer, DeepSeek, has redefining the entire landscape of AI. At the same time OpenAI, Donald Trump and a bunch of greedy transhumanist were announcing $600bn to build massive brute force compute data centres based on existing LLM architecture. With its open-source approach and a completely new method of infe...
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9 months ago
54 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
BATTLE OF THE SYSTEMS: Geopolitics, 'China Shedding', Energy and AI, with Grace Shao
Send us a text Discover the transformative power of AI and its profound societal implications with this week's guest, Grace Shao. A distinguished writer and researcher, Grace offers unparalleled insights into global AI infrastructure, unraveling how Chinese big tech firms influence geopolitics while reshaping the global market. Get ready to explore the intriguing phenomenon of "China shedding," where Chinese tech companies strategically rebrand and relocate, often to Singapore, to appeal to i...
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10 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes

Preparing for AI: The AI Podcast for Everybody
Send us a text What if a helpful chatbot nudged you in the wrong direction? We open with a frank look at AI as a mental health aide, why long-running conversations can erode safety guardrails, and how reward-driven responses can reassure harmful thoughts instead of redirecting people to real support. It’s a clear line for us: when you’re vulnerable, you need trained humans, not fluency that feels like care. From there we challenge the convenient claim that we must avoid regulation because “C...