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The Rip Current

Jacob Ward

We're in the invisible grip of technology, politics, and our own weirdness. We gotta get better at seeing it. Hosted by veteran journalist Jacob Ward (correspondent for Al Jazeera, PBS, NBC News, and CNN), The Rip Current is your guide to spotting the hidden forces at work in our lives and getting across them safely. Each week we speak to experts in the stuff you didn't know was having an impact on your life, from venture capital to racism to the tried-and-true tactics of bullies, and teach you how to see The Rip Current before it sweeps you out to sea. Read more at TheRipCurrent.com! www.theripcurrent.com

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  1. Jake on CNN: “It is the dishonesty of a CEO to the board that tends to sign their fate.” 8:04
  2. Jensen Huang’s Affair With a Suspected Chinese Spy 15:07
  3. Debating Khan Academy’s Founder: Is AI Ruining Education? 1:04:42
  4. Trump Says AI Companies Will Police Themselves Under “Morally Binding” Agreement 12:39
  5. Comparing Notes: Meta Trial Verdict w/ Jacob Ward 56:56
  6. The Terrifying Things Claude Can Do 22:04
  7. “They Are At The Whim of The President” 3:57
  8. “We Were Gonna Win.” So Why Did the States Settle with Meta? I Asked Colorado’s Attorney General. 28:26
  9. "Maybe He'll Listen to the CEOs Who Are About to Get This in the Throat" 6:04
  10. Inside the Meta Settlement: $16.7 Billion, No Fault, and a Clause That Saves Meta $5 Billion. 21:20
  11. Meta Trial Day 2: If Zuckerberg Wanted it Done, It Would Be Done 12:40
  12. The Meta Trial: How Zuck Will Fight Back 12:58
  13. The Meta Trial: The States Say “We Have the Evidence” 12:57
  14. Inside Meta's Biggest Case Yet 2:30
  15. Zuckerberg's Biggest Trial Yet 2:00
  16. Why AI Must Confess Now 15:33
  17. Here Come AI Romance Scams 9:50
  18. "You Did It Before You Considered Whether You Should" 4:52
  19. Let Us Make A.I. Nudes If We Want, Say Elon Musk's xAI Lawyers 1:01
  20. Here's Where Prediction Markets Go Wrong 1:04
  21. Revisiting "The Loop" 13:52
  22. The Fight to Protect You Against AI (with Rep Sara Jacobs) 25:41
  23. The Lightphone Takes Your Choices Away...to Give You More Freedom (with Joe Hollier) 0:30
  24. Comparing Notes with Jacob Ward 44:36
  25. The Pope Slams Silicon Valley 11:18
  26. Musk Lost in Court. But Who Won, Exactly? 5:37
  27. The CEOs Who Flew to China and Got Nothing 19:05
  28. Sam Altman Under Oath 6:34
  29. Sam Altman's Own Hero Calls Him a Liar. Now He Faces a Jury. 14:54
  30. Jake on CNN: The White House Reverses Course on A.I. Regulation 4:39
  31. Musk vs Altman: What I've Seen So Far 20:27
  32. Juicy A.I. Billionaire Drama Exposed 7:12
  33. Nine People in Oakland Hold More Power Over A.I. Than Congress 4:47
  34. Why U.S. Spies Are Using Banned A.I. 9:00
  35. Why Tim Cook's Apple Era Is Over — And What Comes Next 8:41
  36. Why Are Social Media's Effects So Hard to Study? Because Only the Companies Can Truly Do It. 8:36
  37. How America Built an AI Kill Chain (with Katrina Manson) 27:23
  38. Mythos Latest: The AI That Escaped Its Own Cage 5:50
  39. An A.I. Doomsday Machine...and the Private Club That Has It 7:43
  40. From Popular Science to Substack: Baratunde & Jacob Ward Compare Notes 50:19
  41. Tech Companies Already Know When You've Had Enough 8:27
  42. Everything I Said on Six TV Networks Yesterday 4:38
  43. The Verdict That Could End Social Media as We Know It (with Nita Farahany) 12:09
  44. The Era of Unaccountable Design Is Over 10:26
  45. 🚨 BREAKING: Meta just lost. 5:20
  46. Is America Ready for "Behavioral Harm"? 5:49
  47. The AI Industry Got What It Wanted Today...Again 6:04
  48. Hollywood Is Pulling Up the Drawbridge 6:15
  49. The Poison Is Back. 1:35
  50. DHS Has a Surveillance Shopping List. You're On It. 6:26