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1. ChatGPT isn't Smart. It's something Much Weirder

   Video youtube.com

   Cited in Ep 4Ep 6.2

   Also on Ontology Explained I'm Sick of the ASI…

2. AI Agent Adopters are SO Naive - AI may prove humans are DOOMED After All

   Video youtube.comCarl’s

   Cited in Ep 6.1Ep 15

3. The Chinese Room Experiment | The Hunt for AI | BBC Studios

   Video youtube.com

   Cited in Ep 7Ep 9

4. Grok: 'The creators don't know how it works - or how to keep it under control'

   Video youtube.com

   Cited in Ep 10Ep 13

5. The Post-Labor Day AI Panic Psyop

   Link eddowdbeyondthenarrative.substack.com

   Cited in Ep 11Ep 13

6. Definitions of AI and How Companies Use Them to Lie

   Video youtube.comCarl’s

   Cited in Ep 1

7. Hugging Face blog: Security Incident (July 2026)

   Link huggingface.co

   Cited in Ep 3.5

8. OpenAI: Hugging Face Model Evaluation Security Incident

   Link openai.com

   Cited in Ep 3.5

9. The Emperor's New Exploit

   Link medium.com

   Cited in Ep 3.5

10. The OpenAI/Huggingface incident | Redwood Research podcast episode 2

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 3.5

11. How GM's Cruise robotaxi tech failures led it to drag a pedestrian 20 feet

    Link reuters.com

    Cited in Ep 4

12. LLMs Are Databases - So Query Them

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 4

13. Scientists Tried to Re-create an Entire Human Brain in a Computer. What Happened?

    Link scientificamerican.com

    Cited in Ep 4

14. What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 4

15. “This Isn’t Just AI. It’s ALIEN Intelligence” | Full-Length Documentary

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 4

16. Grok used in firing missiles at Iran

    Link independent.co.uk

    Cited in Ep 5

17. Is AI ALIVE? What AI is teaching us about consciousness with Michael Pollan and Chris Hayes

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 5

18. Is AI the next phase of evolution? (When Dawkins Met Claude)

    Link unherd.com

    Cited in Ep 5

19. Meta's A.I. Chief Yann LeCun Explains Why a House Cat Is Smarter Than the Best A.I.

    Link observer.com

    Cited in Ep 5

20. No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

    Link theatlantic.com

    Cited in Ep 5

21. Paper on ELIZA (IJFMR, 2025)

    Link ijfmr.com

    Cited in Ep 5

22. The failure of the Human Brain Project

    Link technologyreview.com

    Cited in Ep 5

23. Ukrainian AI drones already choose their own targets

    Link komersant.ua

    Cited in Ep 5

24. Black Hat USA 2026 | The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 6.1

25. Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Link anthropic.com

    Cited in Ep 6.1

26. Microsoft Patches Record 622 Flaws

    Link thehackernews.com

    Cited in Ep 6.1

27. Radiolab: Born This Way (transcript)

    Link radiolab.org

    Cited in Ep 6.1

28. Reasoning models don't always say what they think

    Link anthropic.com

    Cited in Ep 6.1

29. Does Hank Green Shave His Butt? | Soupytime Asks Hank Anything

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 6.2

30. GEO vs. AEO vs. SEO: What's the Difference and How to Optimize for All Three

    Link searchenginepeople.com

    Cited in Ep 6.2

31. Hank Green's comment on r/nerdfighters

    Link reddit.com

    Cited in Ep 6.2

32. I Remade the SciShow Knitting Video (with accurate SCIENCE)

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 6.2

33. I'm Sick of the ASI Fear-Mongering (Hank Green's Video Made Me Rage, Featuring Nate Soares)

    Video Ontology ExplainedCasey’s

    Cited in Ep 6.2

    Also on Ontology Explained The Philosophers Fallacy!?…

34. Israel influencing LLMs? (Drop Site News)

    Link dropsitenews.com

    Cited in Ep 6.2

35. Scientist and Knitter reacts to SciShow's knitting video

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 6.2

36. The Biggest Lie in AI

    Video youtube.comCarl’s

    Cited in Ep 6.2

37. This is Going to be Very Messy

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 6.2

38. We need to talk about the Hank Green situation

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 6.2

39. We’ve Lost Control of AI

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 6.2

40. Your Favorite Science YouTubers Are Wrong About AI, (e.g. SciShow, Kurzgesagt, and Kyle Hill )

    Video youtube.comCarl’s

    Cited in Ep 6.2

41. YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is not healthy

    Link techcrunch.com

    Cited in Ep 6.2

42. Surprising emergent behavior of sorting algorithms | Michael Levin and Lex Fridman

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 7

43. The Secret Life of Algorithms

    Link forbes.com

    Cited in Ep 7

44. Thomas Kuhn (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

    Link plato.stanford.edu

    Cited in Ep 7

45. Your Brain Isn’t a Computer and That Changes Everything

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 7

46. I'm done coding with AI

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 8

47. Joseph Weizenbaum, inventor of the ELIZA chatbot, turned against artificial intelligence

    Link theguardian.com

    Cited in Ep 8

48. Mike Israetel's Latest Book Is AI Slop (The Aesthetic Revolution)

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 8

49. Mike Israetel's PhD: The Biggest Academic Sham in Fitness?

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 8

50. Why I don't use AI for just the easy things

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 8

51. Do Google engineers actually vibe code?

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 9

52. Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind

    Link books.google.com

    Cited in Ep 9

53. Minds, Brains, and Programs

    Link rintintin.colorado.edu

    Cited in Ep 9

54. AI alignment (IEEE Spectrum)

    Link spectrum.ieee.org

    Cited in Ep 10

55. ControlAI on Sky News (Instagram clip)

    Link instagram.com

    Cited in Ep 10

56. How difficult is AI alignment? | Anthropic Research Salon

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 10

57. HuffPost article on Bostrom's paperclip maximizer

    Link huffpost.com

    Cited in Ep 10

58. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

    Link

    Cited in Ep 10

    Also on Ontology Explained An Honest Breakdown of Eliezer…The Case for Superintelligence…7 more

59. Nate Soares: "If Anyone Builds Artificial Super Intelligence, Everyone Dies" | Seeing Clearly

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 10

60. No, AI Isn’t Conscious; It’s Actually Much Worse | AI Scientist

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 10

61. The alignment problem - Jordan Peterson #shortsvideo

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 10

62. Chatbot Chess Championship 2026

    Link youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 11

63. GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models

    Link arxiv.org

    Cited in Ep 11

64. LLMs can't perform "genuine logical reasoning," Apple researchers suggest

    Link arstechnica.com

    Cited in Ep 11

65. turbo-fieldfare (Mac app for running mixture-of-experts models)

    Link github.com

    Cited in Ep 11

66. AI almost started a war with China (Military Watch Magazine)

    Link militarywatchmagazine.com

    Cited in Ep 12

67. Gates sees end to spam in 2 years

    Link nytimes.com

    Cited in Ep 12

68. HACKED! Are Commercial Ships Being Targeted by Cyber Attacks? | Maritime Cyber Security Deep Dive

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 12

69. New Apple study challenges whether AI models truly "reason" through problems

    Link arstechnica.com

    Cited in Ep 12

70. Recursive self-improvement (Anthropic)

    Link anthropic.com

    Cited in Ep 12

71. The Illusion of Thinking

    Link machinelearning.apple.com

    Cited in Ep 12

72. Thread on ties between AI doomers, rationalists and AI employees

    Link x.com

    Cited in Ep 12

73. Will AI Kill Everyone by 2050? Debate with Dr. Casey Hart (Ontology Explained)

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 12

74. 'OpenAI’s $1.5trn valuation is insane' | Ed Zitron

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 13

75. Anthropic AI in the Iran campaign (Washington Post)

    Link washingtonpost.com

    Cited in Ep 13

76. Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act: Release Summary

    Link sanders.senate.gov

    Cited in Ep 13

77. EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Coxon Worked With Doomer PR Firm

    Link piratewires.com

    Cited in Ep 13

78. Future of Life Institute: Finances

    Link futureoflife.org

    Cited in Ep 13

79. Jacob Coxon resignation thread

    Link x.com

    Cited in Ep 13

80. PauseAI Funding

    Link pauseai.info

    Cited in Ep 13

81. PauseAI Proposal

    Link pauseai.info

    Cited in Ep 13

82. Pete Hegseth Has Become a HUGE Problem for Trump and Republicans

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 13

83. We Must Pace the Frontier

    Link darioamodei.com

    Cited in Ep 13

84. Why Are We Sprinting Off the A.I. Cliff? | The Ezra Klein Show

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 13

85. ‘BEYOND SCIENCE FICTION’: Alex Bores says Hugging Face incident shows AI ‘moving into scheming’

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 13

86. Coherent Extrapolated Volition

    Link intelligence.org

    Cited in Ep 14

87. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    Link global.oup.com

    Cited in Ep 14

88. "The Neurogenic Case Against Synthetic Sentience"

    Link arxiv.org

    Cited in Ep 15

89. 404 Media: Report and video on the viral AI GitHub "torture chamber" experiment and backlash

    Link 404media.co

    Cited in Ep 15

90. AI Weekly: Tech companies engage faith leaders on AI sentience

    Link aiweekly.co

    Cited in Ep 15

91. Anthropic Has Been Aggressively Lobbying the Vatican to Consider AI Consciousness

    Link futurism.com

    Cited in Ep 15

92. Anthropic lobbying religious scholars and ethicists on AI consciousness

    Link nytimes.com

    Cited in Ep 15

93. Anthropic Terms of Service update: Prohibition on "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior"

    Link anthropic.com

    Cited in Ep 15

94. GitHub: The AI "Torture Chamber" steering repository and README rebuttal experiments

    Link github.com

    Cited in Ep 15

95. Nightshade: Data poisoning tool for image generative models

    Link arxiv.org

    Cited in Ep 15

96. No, LLMs Are Not Conscious

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 15

97. Papal Encyclical on Artificial Intelligence (May 2026), Section 99: "Magnifica Humanitas"

    Link vatican.va

    Cited in Ep 15

98. Pope Leo Says AI Safety Fears Are Not 'Fake News' And Criticizes Nvidia's Billionaire CEO (Forbes)

    Link forbes.com

    Cited in Ep 15

99. Pope REJECTS AI Consciousness After Anthropic Freakout

    Video youtube.com

    Cited in Ep 15

100. Pope's Statement on X / Twitter (October 8): On the ontological difference between human art and machine-generated content

     Link x.com

     Cited in Ep 15

101. Ren et al. – "AI Well-Being: Measuring and Improving the Functional Pleasure and Pain of AIs"

     Link ai-wellbeing.org

     Cited in Ep 15

102. Tagliabue et al. – "The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It"

     Link arxiv.org

     Cited in Ep 15

103. The dangerous myth of ‘conscious’ AI

     Link catholicculture.org

     Cited in Ep 15

104. What Is Nightshade? (University of Chicago)

     Link nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu

     Cited in Ep 15