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157 episodes
Bytes to Insights Weekly News Digest for the Week of December 7 2025
Welcome to this episode of the Bytes to Insights podcast for the week of December 7th, 2025. In this episode, we discuss the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence.
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Season 2
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Episode 100
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11:20
When AI Detectors Accused Thomas Jefferson of Being a Robot
AI detectors frequently misclassify polished or historical writing, such as the Declaration of Independence, revealing deep limitations that demand more ethical, transparent, and process-based approaches to evaluating authorship.
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Season 2
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Episode 99
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15:04
Bytes to Insights Weekly News Digest for the Week of November 30 2025
Welcome to this episode of the Bytes to Insights podcast for the week of November 30th, 2025. In this episode, we discuss the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence.
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Season 2
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Episode 98
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8:59
Bytes to Insights Weekly News Digest for the Week of November 23 2025
Welcome to this episode of the Bytes to Insights podcast for the week of November 23rd, 2025. In this episode, we discuss the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence.
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Season 2
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Episode 97
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8:24
Your Smart Doorbell Is an AI Enabled Surveillance Camera
Smart doorbells designed for home security have inadvertently created America's largest decentralized surveillance network, one that continuously monitors entire neighborhoods and grants law enforcement access to footage without warrants, all w...
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Season 2
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Episode 96
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4:57
AI as a Force Multiplier in Policing and Surveillance
This episode explains how AI functions as a powerful force multiplier in policing and surveillance, the risks this creates for civil liberties, and the strategies communities can use to preserve transparency, accountability, and democratic over...
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Season 2
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Episode 94
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12:44
Bytes to Insights Weekly News Digest for the Week of November 16 2025
Welcome to this episode of the Bytes to Insights podcast for the week of November 16th, 2025. In this episode, we discuss the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence.
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Season 2
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Episode 95
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12:52
How Cloud Infrastructure Threatens America's Golden Dome Missile Defense Program
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Season 2
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Episode 93
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19:25
The Golden Dome Program and Challenges to AI
This episode examines the essential role of AI in Golden Dome’s missile-defense architecture, the risks and ethical challenges of autonomous decision-making, and strategies to ensure that AI-enabled security strengthens rather than destabilizes...
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Season 2
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Episode 92
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19:23
Bytes to Insights Weekly News Digest for the Week of November 9 2025
Welcome to this episode of the Bytes to Insights podcast for the week of November 9th, 2025. In this episode, we discuss the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence.
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Season 2
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Episode 91
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8:40
Bytes to Insights Weekly News Digest for the Week of November 2 2025
Welcome to this episode of the Bytes to Insights podcast for the week of November 2nd, 2025. In this episode, we discuss the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence.
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Season 2
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Episode 90
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8:42
A BearNetAI Viewpoint – When Intelligence Becomes a Weapon
Anduril’s LLM-powered drone test marks a profound ethical inflection point—where the speed of machine interpretation outpaces the deliberation of human morality.
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Season 2
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Episode 89
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5:34
Bytes to Insights Weekly News Digest for the Week of October 26 2025
Welcome to this episode of the Bytes to Insights podcast for the week of October 26th 2025. In this episode, we discuss the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence.
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Season 2
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Episode 88
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9:40
AI Companionship - Understanding the Risks and Responsibilities
This episode explores the emerging regulation of AI companionship, outlining its psychological risks, ethical challenges, and strategies to ensure that emotionally intelligent AI serves humanity without exploiting its emotions.
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Season 2
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Episode 87
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8:53
Bytes to Insights Weekly News Digest for the Week of October 19 2025
Welcome to this episode of the Bytes to Insights podcast for the week of October 19th, 2025. In this episode, we discuss the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence.
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Season 2
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Episode 86
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9:16
AI-Driven Web Navigation – Browsers that Think
This episode explores how AI-driven browsers like ChatGPT Atlas redefine how humans interact with information. Society must balance innovation with transparency and ethics to ensure the next evolution of the web serves knowledge, not control.
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Season 2
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Episode 85
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6:49
Bytes to Insights Weekly News Digest for the Week of October 12 2025
Bytes to Insights News Digest for the week of October 12th, 2025
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Season 2
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Episode 84
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9:19
AI and the Displaced Middle Class - The Emerging Threat to Political Stability
This episode explores how AI-driven automation threatens political stability by eroding the educated middle class, and how societies can preserve balance through equitable distribution, civic reform, and ethical governance.
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Season 2
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Episode 83
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20:39
Bytes to Insights Weekly News Digest for the Week of October 5 2025
Welcome to this episode of the Bytes to Insights podcast for the week of October 5th 2025. In this episode, we discuss the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence.
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Season 2
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Episode 82
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6:04
When Laws Are Optional - AI, Surveillance Capitalism, and the Erosion of Autonomy
This episode explores how artificial intelligence amplifies surveillance capitalism, enabling both corporations and governments to predict and manipulate human behavior, and warns that when those in power no longer obey the law, the preservatio...
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Season 2
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Episode 81
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32:48
Bytes to Insights Weekly News Digest for the Week of September 29 2025
Welcome to this episode of the Bytes to Insights podcast for the week of September 29th 2025. In this episode, we discuss the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence.
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Season 2
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Episode 80
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11:22
Bytes to Insights Weekly News Digest for the Week of September 21 2025
Welcome to this episode of the Bytes to Insights podcast for the week of September 21, 2025. In this episode, we discuss the latest breakthroughs and trends in artificial intelligence.
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Season 2
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Episode 79
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10:00
AI, Surveillance Capitalism, and the Future of Democratic Society
This episode examines the convergence of artificial intelligence and surveillance capitalism, highlighting the threats to democracy, risks, examples, and ethical concerns, as well as strategies to mitigate harm while promoting transparency and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 78
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15:40
Part 7 of 7 – AI in HealthcareToward Global Health Equity
This episode explores how artificial intelligence can bridge global healthcare disparities by enhancing diagnosis, communication, and resource allocation while emphasizing ethical design and inclusive implementation to achieve genuine health eq...
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Season 2
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Episode 77
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10:19