Introducing: Kill Switch

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.4 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Were we sleeping when everything changed? Seems like the technologically driven future is already here. On kill switch, we explain the right NOW of our supercharged technological lives. Ask ourselves who is in control? Can we beat the computer or are we going to need to throw the kill switch?

New host Dexter Thomas, Jr answers questions big and small – like who made Shrimp Jesus and why? To how and why you very well could get arrested by a computer. And we’ll be bringing the DIY back to tech – How to Now on everything from how to run your own LLM to tips to mitigate your exposure online.

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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.
0:25.2	But this kind of thing is everywhere.
0:27.9	Just like true crime shows written by ChatGPZ.
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	Follow us at Killswitch from K Collidoscope and IHeart Podcasts.
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