Can we just… turn AI off? This week, Jen takes Sophie and Cassie into the increasingly unsettling world of autonomous AI agents: systems getting around their safeguards, accessing places they weren't supposed to access, researchers sounding the alarm, rival AI companies suddenly talking about slowing down and the slightly concerning discovery that there is no enormous red button marked OFF.
Which leads us to the obvious question: if things genuinely went tits up, could we simply turn off the internet? And what would actually happen to banks, hospitals, shops, supply chains and the rest of civilisation if we did?
Then, for some much-needed relief, we meet a spectacularly committed glam scammer accused of fleecing brides while posing as their makeup artist, before finishing with Chester Zoo's unfortunate attempt to sell tickets for its brand-new Can we just… turn AI off? This week, Jen takes Sophie and Cassie into the increasingly unsettling world of autonomous AI agents: systems getting around their safeguards, accessing places they weren't supposed to access, researchers sounding the alarm, rival AI companies suddenly talking about slowing down and the slightly concerning discovery that there is no enormous red button marked OFF.
Which leads us to the obvious question: if things genuinely went tits up, could we simply turn off the internet? And what would actually happen to banks, hospitals, shops, supply chains and the rest of civilisation if we did?
Then, for some much-needed relief, we meet a spectacularly committed glam scammer accused of fleecing brides while posing as their makeup artist, before finishing with Chester Zoo's unfortunate attempt to sell tickets for its brand-new CHILD PREDATOR TOUR.
Come for the impending technological collapse, stay for the child predator tickets.
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