Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits,

free thinkers, problem solvers, vagabonders, friendly cyborgs, you get the idea.

Welcome back.

I'm Andrew Heaton, still 40.

Today we are going to talk about how political bias creeps into artificial intelligence and the potentially massive ramifications of it. But before we jump into all of that, I want to ask you a couple of questions.

I want you to try to recall the very first time you saw a smartphone.

What did you think the first time you saw it?

Was it revelatory?

Was it just a new gadget? When did you realize, oh, phones are different forever. We don't really

have phones. We have supercomputers that include a phone app.

Society is different.

We're all cyborgs, now and forever.

We have a little robot brain we carry around with ourselves.

We only take it off when we go to the shower. When did you appreciate the profundity of a smartphone

and realize or notice just how much it was changing society?

In my case, I was 24 years old, home for Christmas, when I saw my first smartphone, my friend Josh

Woodward's brother showed me a thing called an iPhone and initially didn't like it

thought it was kind of dumb twofold one I am a fan of flip phones, not for any weird nostalgic old-timey function.

Whenever I'm talking about another person and it's a sensitive conversation and

maybe I would feel weird if they were there.

I am always terrified that I have accidentally but dialed them every single time.

I will routinely, hey, we need to talk about Kevin.

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