The Real Danger of AI Isn’t What We Think

Everyone’s talking about the danger of AI — but what if we’re all looking in the wrong direction?
This isn’t about killer robots. It’s about how easily humans are fooled… Take it from a magician.

In this /dev/random episode, we explore the real danger of AI — not the science-fiction kind, but the psychological kind: how illusion, automation, and misplaced trust make us underestimate the oldest vulnerability in every system… us.

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💡What You'll Learn
00:00 Cold Open – The Illusion
00:35 Misdirection
00:50 The Trick
01:15 Suspension of Disbelief
01:50 Channel Intro
02:16 Can Machines Think?
02:47 The Mechanical Turk
03:36 The Turing Test
03:50 The ELIZA Effect
05:11 Language & Différance
06:01 Stochastic Parrots
06:38 Ad Break – No Fluff Just Stuff
08:59 The Illusion of Intelligence
10:22 The Chinese Room
11:26 Non-Determinism
12:13 Epic Crashout
13:21 Air Canada Debacle
13:55 Hallucinations
14:11 GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out)
15:18 The Vulnerability Is Us
15:53 Illusions of Intimacy
16:44 Parasocial Relationships
17:33 Model Collapse
18:12 AI Psychosis
19:03 AI as God & Cult
20:07 AI With an Agenda
23:38 The Playbook - What Can We Do?
24:21 Closing Thoughts

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📚 References & Further Reading

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspens...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechani...
https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/paper...
https://aclanthology.org/W10-0721.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff%C3...
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/344218...
https://inimino.org/openai-improves-c...
https://cdn.openai.com/gpt-5-system-c...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-...
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/17/groks...
https://illusion.baldurbjarnason.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_e...

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