Hello and welcome to the Reason Roundtable.

This is the podcast of Free Minds, Free Markets, and Free Takes.

I'm your host, Peter Souterman.

And today I am joined by my illustrious colleagues, Catherine, Maggie Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch. Everybody say hello.

Howdy.

Hi.

Hello.

Happy Monday to the robots. Sure seems like everything's going your way. All right,

let's talk about AI, artificial intelligence. It's still in its early stages, but like the internet in the 1990s, our favorite decade. It is already transforming the world. No one knows exactly how AI will develop or how all of this will play out. But there seems to be an emerging consensus that I think Jesse Single got at in one of his recent newsletters that everything is about to get very, very weird.

And in some ways, it already has.

So today I actually want to go around the panel and start by asking everyone to describe one way that they think AI either will get weird or that it already has.

Matt Welch, you are our resident technology correspondent.

I'll get with you.

I appreciate the point and laugh segment of this podcast.

Actually, a beloved listener to this very podcast, video cast, and also listen to the

5thcom podcast, had an AI thing steal all of her

Soviet Israeli parents' life savings.

This is how it worked pretty recently.

They received phone call, elderly parents, dementia, Alzheimer's.

They received a phone call with her voice.

And it was her voice saying that she got

in a car accident, that she'd hit a pregnant woman, that she needed bail money. They kept them on

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