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WIRED

Welcome to Uncanny Valley—an insider look at the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley—where each week, WIRED’s writers and editors bring you original reporting and analysis about some of the biggest stories in tech. 

On Tuesdays, The Big Interview with WIRED’s Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond in conversation with influential figures in culture, politics, business, science, and beyond for a discussion captured through the WIRED lens.

On Thursdays, WIRED writers and editors Zoë Schiffer, Brian Barrett and Leah Feiger add you to the Slack group thread to let you into what they’re hearing from sources in Silicon Valley and D.C, read you into what trends you should be watching for and how WIRED is thinking about it all.

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Last year, Maddie Kowalski was a regular sophomore attending the University of Florida. That is until one day, a series of anonymous accounts on X started proliferating explicit, non-consensual videos of her. 

This week, Zoe sits down with WIRED’s senior writer Ej Dickson to discuss the burnerverse — a sprawling, loosely organized network of anonymous accounts that have turned the sexual humiliation of young women into an online participatory sport.

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

Articles mentioned in this episode:

A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

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Inside the Network of Anonymous Men Destroying Young Women's Lives

Comedian Patti Harrison hates social media. She wishes she didn't have to use it at all. To her, the internet is a slop factory. One of her biggest concerns: intentionally created confusion meant to drive engagement online. So, Katie asks her why.

Patti is our cover girl for the WIRED Women issue check out the 5 different covers here. 

Check out the new WIRED app. 

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Patti Harrison Grew Up With Tech As Her North Star. Not Anymore.

The debate of whether AI can kill us has been everywhere lately, but how exactly would an actual AI catastrophe look like? This week, the team went looking for answers and found the three real-world scenarios experts worry the most about — including hacked water supplies, bioweapons, and autonomous robots. We also discuss the highlights of Salesforce’s annual conference, where OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei defended their positions on AI safety. Plus — Leah tells us how this backlash against AI has become a rare bipartisan flashpoint, to the point that Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon shared a stage over it this week.

Articles mentioned in this episode:

 China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown | WIRED 

 Washington Won’t Be Regulating AI Anytime Soon | WIRED 

 Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone | WIRED 

 OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal | WIRED 

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What Would the AI Apocalypse Look Like? We Went Looking for Answers

Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, Station Eleven, turned her into something of a pandemic prophet. This month, she’s releasing her newest novel, Exit Party, which imagines two possible American futures—totalitarian state and post-civil-war chaos. 

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If the US Collapses Soon, Don’t Blame Emily St. John Mandel

This week, an AI researcher's resignation from Anthropic went viral on social media after he claimed there's a real chance AI could wipe out humanity by decade's end. WIRED’s Will Knight joins Brian and Leah to assess whether the doom narrative is overblown or overdue. We also discuss Apple’s debut of its $2000 foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, and the new "always listening" Apple Watch features that have Brian feeling more than a little uneasy. Plus — a WIRED investigation found that the US Census Bureau used faulty data to create a misleading report touted by the Trump administration. 

Articles mentioned in this episode:

 OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul 

 The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’ 

 A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusions | WIRED

 Apple Debuts the iPhone Duo, Its First Folding iPhone | WIRED 

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So, Can AI Kill Us All?; Apple’s Foldable iPhone; the Census’ Bad Data Problem

When Rebecca Kutler accepted the job as president of cable news channel MS Now, formerly known as MSNBC, she knew what she was getting into. The top 3 cable news channel, MS was about to go into a massive re-brand having been spun off from NBC. Despite those betting against her, the rebrand has had continuous double-digit audience growth. No small feat these days for TV news. Katie talks to Rebecca about her plans to leverage its massive audience to create a fan community. First up: letting you chat with Rachel Maddow.

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MS NOW Wants to Turn Its Viewers Into a Fandom

We're back! This week, the team discusses the two incidents that have been making noise in prediction markets: George Santos getting lifetime ban from Kalshi, and a Google engineer's Polymarket insider-trading case. Plus, WIRED reporters reverse-engineered Flock's AI-powered person-search tool, and the hosts unpack the online meltdown over how to talk about "rogue" AI agents.

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How Flock Cameras Actually Work; George Santos' Kalshi Ban; AI Rogue "Civilizations"

Devin Stone, the lawyer better known as LegalEagle on YouTube, has been breaking down legal cases - and assessing the accuracy of legal procedurals in film and television -- for years. He talks to Katie about the challenges of keeping up with scandals arising from the Trump Administration.

This is a summer re-air! 

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LegalEagle, the Internet’s Favorite Lawyer, Makes Sense of ‘Multiple Watergates per Week’ (Re-air)

The AI race has been framed as a zero-sum game: either the U.S or China will win at the end. But as concerns pile up around the increasing capabilities of AI models — especially AI agents — researchers across state lines are trying to team up to work on AI safety. This week, Zoë speaks with WIRED’s Will Knight about what he saw and heard on the ground when he visited China this summer — and why the two countries might actually need to start working together to avoid a major AI catastrophe.

This is our second episode from our summer break series. We’ll be back next week with our usual roundtable. 

Articles mentioned in this episode:

 I Met With China’s Top AI Experts. They’re Freaking Out, Too | WIRED 

 AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse | WIRED 

 The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain | WIRED 

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AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?

Katie sits down with the Westworld showrunner, Jonah Nolan for a wide ranging conversation about what keeps him coming back to sci-fi storytelling about technology and human nature. After decades of writing about Ai, Nolan explains why Ai may be good for burgeoning filmmakers, but won’t replace Hollywood as we know it.

Nolan’s past work includes Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Interstellar and Westworld. 

This is a summer re-air! We are on a short vacation but back with fresh episodes very soon. 

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Fallout Director Jonathan Nolan Says He's Still a Techno-Optimist (Re-air)

This week, we’re joined by a special guest: freelance war correspondent Kenneth R. Rosen. Ken is working on a series of stories for WIRED about the reconstruction efforts in Syria. The first of Ken’s stories, “The Body Pullers of Syria,” published earlier this week. We talk to Ken about how he does his job, the tools he uses to report the stories of the men and women rebuilding the war-torn cities, and the methods he uses to stay safe in the field.
 

 
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