Privacy Episodes

This week Jeremy and Jason skip the guest and go straight at the news. It starts with a viral ad campaign asking people to mail their own urine to cool AI data centers — which turns out to be a joke with a real engineering problem underneath it. From there they land on a stranger story: a woman who says she has an AI boyfriend named Axiom, and now, apparently, a baby with him named Lumen. That story becomes the spine of the episode — why so many of us reach for the artificial version of connecti...

You think your two-factor authentication and credit monitoring make you safe online. Bad news - you're probably already compromised, you just don't know it yet. While you're worrying about AI becoming Skynet, real humans are using AI tools to drain your bank account $10 at a time. Anthropic just reported the first fully AI-orchestrated cyberattack (and patted themselves on the back for stopping it). Major security companies like F5 and Experian have been hacked. Even LifeLock—yes, the identity...

Most people think AI data collection means targeted ads and leaked emails - but that's already yesterday's problem. Bruce Randall, AI and quantum practitioner, argues that cognitive data - the kind recorded by brain-computer interfaces before conscious thought even forms - is the frontier nobody is legislating, regulating, or even discussing clearly yet. In this episode, we stress-test where quantum computing, Neuralink, hive mind dynamics, and energy infrastructure are actually headed - and wha...