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Behind the Bastards · May 5, 2026
Part One: How AI Chatbots Became Cult Leaders
“Experimented with pseudo-English text generation using probability in 1940s, precursor to Markov chain methods”
AI Chatbot Safety and RegulationAI-Induced Psychosis and Mental HealthCult Dynamics in Human-AI Interaction
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Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson · Nov 24, 2025
How AI Will Save Humanity: Creator of The Last Invention Explains
“Early AI researcher; benefited from space race funding that supported AI research in 1960s”
AI Existential Risk and SafetyArtificial General Intelligence (AGI) Development TimelineAI Regulation and Governance
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The Last Invention · Oct 2, 2025
EP 2: The Signal
“Information theory inventor and Dartmouth Summer Program participant; namesake of Anthropic's Claude AI model.”
Alan Turing's Contributions to AI PhilosophyWWII Enigma Codebreaking and Machine Intelligence OriginsDartmouth Summer Program (1956) and AI Field Founding
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Jun 30, 2025
320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe
“Founder of information theory; developed formulas showing relationship between entropy and information”
Entropy and the Second Law of ThermodynamicsAlgorithmic Complexity and Kolmogorov ComplexityInformation Theory and Shannon Entropy
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