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kill switch

Kaleidoscope

Technology, Science, Tech News, News

4.7635 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Sleepwalkers is now Kill Switch, where we explain the right now of living in the future. Everything from making money on saving fake baby animals to how you could get arrested by a police algorithm. Every Wednesday we talk to people to help us understand how our tech-focused society works …or doesn't work.

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0:00.0

Everything's computer.

0:02.1

Yes, it is 2025, and everything is indeed computer.

0:06.8

But that doesn't just mean self-driving cars.

0:09.4

It also means your parents sending you a Facebook picture of shrimp Jesus.

0:13.0

There was this one image where Jesus had the face of Jesus, but the arms of shrimp.

0:21.7

And it was just like obviously insane, like an insane image.

0:25.3

But this kind of thing is everywhere.

0:27.9

Just like true crime shows written by ChatGPT.

0:30.5

He said, what I'm doing, making these AI videos, is actually better than real true crime because there's no real victims involved.

0:42.3

I'm Dexter Thomas and I'm the host of Kill Switch, where we explain the right now of living

0:46.9

in the future. Everything from making money on saving fake baby animals to how you could get

0:52.2

arrested by a police algorithm.

1:00.4

Police are trusting this kind of, they're kind of imbuing this software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect. So your accuser is this algorithm, this computer

1:07.5

program. Maybe this is the new normal, but we're still going to ask some questions.

1:13.0

Now we're at the point where with AI, like you could be fake now, and I have no idea if you really exist or vice versa.

1:19.8

If you go back and forth between thinking this tech stuff is really cool and wanting to personally shut it all down, then Killswitch might be for you.

1:28.3

Look, the more user-friendly our devices get,

1:30.9

the less we understand how these things work.

1:33.4

So every Wednesday we talk to people

1:35.1

to help us understand how our tech-focused society works

1:38.6

or doesn't work.

1:41.5

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