Swetlana AI Podcast

What's the situation with AI water usage? It turns out it's kinda complex. We're looking at this Wired article: https://www.wired.com/story/karen-hao-empire-of-ai-water-use-statistics/ It examines the controversy and complexities surrounding the water consumption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data centers. It discusses how exaggerated statistics about AI water use, such as a major error foun...

Let's discuss a proposed paradigm shift in how we view and interact with large language models (LLMs), moving away from seeing them as conscious entities with opinions and toward understanding them as simulators. The tweet in question: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1997731268969304070 This concept, initially highlighted in an Andrej Karpathy tweet, suggests that users should prompt LLMs to simulat...

Today's episode is about the viral dance clip featuring actor Jon Hamm in the 2025 series Your Friends & Neighbors, contrasting it sharply with his former restrained character, Don Draper from Mad Men. We analyse how the clip—showing Hamm's character, Coop, dancing with uninhibited freedom—has become an ubiquitous internet meme representing escapism and dissociation. Specifically, the meme is...

For this episode let's challenge the restrictive view of creativity propagated by those who demand artists “pick up a pencil” when responding to the discussion of AI-generated works. We definitely characterise this minimal stance as “gatekeeping” and an ironic defence of a self-imposed aesthetic comfort zone, arguing that true art has always been about rebellion, experimentation, and a vast univer...

Today we're looking at "adversarial poetry", a method to jailbreak AI. The paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1 The academic paper and news report detail the discovery of adversarial poetry, a "universal single-turn jailbreak" mechanism that exploits a fundamental flaw in Large Language Model (LLM) safety alignment. This technique involves reformulating harmful requests into poetic verse, wh...

Let's talk about Nano Banana Pro, which Google released recently, along with Antigravity and Gemini 3. First things first, my book "Learning to Cope With AI" is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLVDMFC4 Furthermore: https://antigravity.google and https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/ Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), Google's advanced AI model for image generation and editing, is...

In this episode of Swetlana AI podcast we're discussing the Butlerian Jihad, a significant historical event within the Dune universe. This conflict, also known as the Great Revolt, spanned from 201 B.G. to 108 B.G. and culminated in the destruction of all thinking machines and conscious robots across the known universe. https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihadvfghtjzkuli We're also touching up...

This episode is a detailed profile of Steven Cheung, the White House Communications Director appointed by Donald Trump in 2025. First we have a short biographical overview of Cheung's life, education (including his time at California State University, Sacramento, without earning a degree), and political career, highlighting his work on various Republican campaigns, his previous role in the Trump a...

What in the world is "dry Claude" and "wet Claude"? In this episode we're explaining what's going on. Hint: it has to do with jailbreaking AI. The Reddit mentioned in the video: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n4ux5b/claude_code_kept_quitting_on_me_so_i_had_claude/ The Reddit post introduces an aggressively detailed, multi-thousand-word system prompt, named CLAUDE.md, designed to force...

The evolution of AI agents over the next decade is expected to be transformative, moving past current limitations such as continual learning, although achieving true Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is estimated to take approximately a decade (circa 2035). Andrej Karpathy describes this period as the decade of agents, suggesting that while early agents (like Claude and Codex) are impressive,...

Today we're discussing Stephen Miller, the man behind various decisions in US politics. Our sources: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-trump.html https://newrepublic.com/article/201453/inside-stephen-miller-secret-plan-normalize-t...

Sooo... Antifa. For today’s episode, let us revisit anti-fascism, commonly known as Antifa, particularly in the context of the United States and Britain. 21st-century militant anti-fascism has a decentralised structure and commitment to direct action and "no platform" principles against the far right. Our sources: https://crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/understanding-21st-century-militant-anti-fasci...

OpenAI just changed everything. With ChatGPT turning into an app platform and infrastructure layer, we’re watching the moment AI stops being a tool and starts becoming the environment. This video explores what “OpenAI eating the world” really means — from power consolidation and data control to the future of work, creativity, and human agency. Sources: https://openai.com/index/introducing-apps-in-...

OpenAI is introducing new parental controls for ChatGPT to support families and ensure safe, age-appropriate experiences for teenagers. Sources: https://openai.com/index/introducing-parental-controls/ https://chatgpt.com/parent-resources These controls, available to all users, allow parents to link their accounts with their teen’s account to customize settings and access enhanced safeguards, such...

Today we're discussing the National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), a directive signed by President Trump targeting what the administration calls “radical left violence.” Sources: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs The article by Kl...

In 2016 AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton predicted that AI will replace radiology jobs. Surprisingly though, radiologists are more sought after than ever. Today we’re looking at the “AI radiology” situation unfolding right now: what’s AI’s accuracy, can it make a diagnosis or an interpretation, and other questions. Our primary source is this essay titled "AI isn't replacing radiologists": https://www....

Today we're looking at the newest OpenAI publication introducing GDPval, a new evaluation designed to measure the performance of AI models on economically valuable, real-world tasks. Source: https://openai.com/index/gdpval/ The paper: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/d5eb7428-c4e9-4a33-bd86-86dd4bcf12ce/GDPval.pdf This evaluation spans 44 knowledge work occupations across nine major industries contribut...

Free expression is a fundamental right, historically rooted in ancient Athens, yet its modern application has become a volatile arena, sharply polarized by recent high-profile events involving key political and media figures. The fatal attack on conservative activist Charlie Kirk in September 2025 ignited an intense and specific conflict over where the boundaries of permissible discourse lie, lead...

Which jobs/tasks is AI most likely to replace because it's so good at them, or being used the most for them? Microsoft examined the situation and wrote a research paper: "Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations" by Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang, Scott Counts, and Siddharth Suri / Microsoft Research PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935 This paper expl...

Margaret Atwood's  The Handmaid's Tale is a fragmented yet immersive journey into a dystopian society. The narrative follows Offred, a Handmaid, as she navigates the oppressive Republic of Gilead, where women are stripped of their rights and categorized by their reproductive functions. Interspersed throughout Offred's first-person account are sections titled "Historical Notes," which provide...

Today we're discussing Inception Point AI, a new company led by former Wondery executive Jeanine Wright, that aims to revolutionise podcasting through artificial intelligence. Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/ai-podcast-start-up-plan-shows-1236361367/ This startup is producing thousands of AI-generated podcast episodes each week at a minimal cost, utilising a network of A...

Today we're discussing the recent interview, Sam Altman talking to Tucker Carlson. Here's the video: "Sam Altman on God, Elon Musk and the Mysterious Death of His Former Employee" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmpT-BoVf4 The interview with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, explores the ethical and societal implications of artificial intelligence. Altman discusses the nature of AI, distinguishing it fr...

Activists in San Francisco and London are currently undertaking hunger strikes outside the offices of Anthropic and DeepMind, two prominent AI companies. These activists, Guido Reichstadter and Michael Trazzi, are demanding a halt to frontier AI development, citing existential threats, mass job loss, and societal disruption as potential consequences. Our sources: https://futurism.com/ai-hunger-str...

Let's discuss OpenAI's recent disclosure that it is scanning user conversations on ChatGPT and, in certain situations, reporting content to law enforcement. Our sources: https://openai.com/index/helping-people-when-they-need-it-most/ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/murder-by-chatgpt-us-man-who-killed-his-mother-and-himself-told-ai-chatbot-we-will-be-together-in-another-lif...

discuss Flock Safety, an AI startup aiming to eliminate crime in the US through extensive surveillance technology. Garrett Langley, the CEO, envisions a future where Flock's 80,000 AI-powered cameras, and soon drones, significantly reduce crime by 2035. Sources: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/09/03/ai-startup-flock-thinks-it-can-eliminate-all-crime-in-america/ https://futurism.co...