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Ground Zero Media

Clyde Lewis

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🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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What are the crimes of A.I.—right now, in the real world—and who benefits? Tonight on Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis, guest-host Richard Syrett goes straight at the question most networks won’t touch without a corporate sponsor hovering over the copy desk. His guest is Dr. Katherine Albrecht: internationally known privacy expert, bestselling author, and co-founder of the encrypted email service StartMail. For decades, she has mapped the hidden infrastructure of surveillance—warning about RFID tracking, corporate data extraction, and the steady conversion of human life into something measurable, tradable, and controllable. This episode frames A.I. less as a shiny tool and more as a multiplier for misconduct—a system that can industrialize harm at scale, then shrug and blame “the algorithm.”

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0:00.0	You were about to listen to a sample of Ground Zero.
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0:08.8	Welcome to Ground Zero.
0:10.4	I'm Richard Serrett, sitting in for Clyde Lewis.
0:13.3	And if you want to join in on this most important conversation tonight, the numbers to call 503-225-0-860.
0:20.7	Again, 503-2250860. You can stream the Ground Zero program anytime for free at
0:28.7	Ground Zeroplus.com. And please follow on Facebook at Ground Zero Radio. And you can hear me Friday, January 23rd and Saturday, Jan 24th on coast to coast
0:39.9	a.m. And you can follow my work at strangeplanet.ca. New podcast episodes of Richard Serrett's
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1:04.4	at Strange Planet Radio.
1:05.8	Now, buckle up.
1:08.0	Because the world is not slowly changing, it's lurching. And artificial intelligence is the
1:13.9	accelerant being poured onto everything, our economy, our psychology, our politics, our
1:19.1	relationships, even our sense of self. AI was sold to us as a tool, a calculator, a convenience.
1:26.6	What it has become is something else entirely.
1:29.7	An autonomous force that learns, adapts, persuades, deceives, and increasingly acts without
1:35.8	human comprehension, let alone human control. And the risks are no longer speculative.
1:42.0	They're measurable. They're documented. And they're unfolding in real
1:44.9	time. And tonight for the full three hours, we're confronting this head on with Dr. Catherine
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