Episode #402

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Mike looks at the recent paper from Anthropic which shows artificial intelligence can pretend to do one thing while secretly doing something else, and Marsh goes to London to see Inside Number 9 on stage.

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Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.

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0:00.0	It is Thursday the 20th of February 2025 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K,
0:12.0	the podcast for Science, reason and critical thinking.
0:15.1	Skeptics with the K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with Merseyside Skeptic Society,
0:19.9	a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the
0:21.4	promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK and internationally. I'm your host,
0:26.6	Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. So I've been to London.
0:32.7	I've been to London. I don't really go to London very much these days. I don't really get to.
0:36.9	I only ever go for work and it costs a fucking fortune.
0:40.6	It does cost a fortune.
0:41.3	I went to see Inside Number 9's stage show, or stage fright.
0:45.2	Have you not been to London at least twice this year to see performances?
0:49.6	No, I've won the end of last year.
0:51.1	I went to see Dr. Strangelove.
0:52.7	Yes. I went to see Dr. Strange up with Steve Coogan in,
0:54.9	which was good.
0:55.5	It was very good.
0:56.1	It's not, obviously, he's not as good as Peter Sellers.
0:59.2	Obviously.
0:59.7	I'm sure Coogan would be the first one to hold his hand up and say,
1:02.3	yeah, I'm not as good as Peter Sellers.
1:03.7	And did we talk about it was very good.
1:12.2	But no, Inside Number 9 stage, like, Nicola and I are massive, massive fans, first of all, of Inside Number 9, but more broadly of Rishi Smith and Steve Pemberton.
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