TWiT 1037: Teach Amanda Fish - AI Backlash

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 173 minutes

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Summary

Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue
Why We Don't Talk About Job Destruction
Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran's Financial System
Iran restricts internet access to ward off Israeli cyberattacks
The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel
It's Official: Streaming Is Now the King of TV
AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training
For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans' top news source
Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time
The People Search Sites in the Suspected Minnesota Killer's Notebook Are a Failure of Congress
40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet
Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
WhatsApp's rollout of ads will change the app forever
Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Calacanis, Amanda Silberling, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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0:00.0	It's time for Twit this week in tech.
0:02.1	What a great show ahead for you.
0:03.8	Amanda Sibberling is here from TechCrunch, Jason Kalakanis from the All In podcast, and Father Robert Ballas here.
0:11.2	We'll talk about artificial intelligence.
0:13.8	We'll talk about cameras everywhere and the future of humanity.
0:18.1	It's all ahead next on Twitter.
0:22.6	Podcasts you love.
0:24.5	From people you trust.
0:27.0	This is Twit.
0:32.5	This is Twit. This is Twit. This week in Tech, episode 137, recorded Sunday, June 22nd, 2025.
0:42.9	Teach Amanda Fish.
0:45.0	It's time for Twit this week in tech.
0:46.9	The show we cover the week's tech news.
0:49.0	Get ready.
0:49.6	It's going to be a barn burner, ladies and gentlemen.
0:52.3	Father Robert Ballasair is here from high above
0:55.5	Vatican City. Hello, Father Robert. Greetings from my barn on top of St. Peter's.
1:02.1	Bond, Ben. Yeah, you were probably pretty busy over the last few months. It's been a time.
1:08.7	Actually, I was supposed to be back in the United States at the end of April, and then many, many things happened. And because of that, my schedule got compressed. I was keynote speaker at a bunch of AI conferences in Budapest, then New York, then Los Angeles. But because everything got compressed, instead of going from Rome to Budapest to New York than Los Angeles. Wow. But because everything got compressed, instead of going from
1:28.7	Rome to Budapest to New York to Los Angeles, I went Rome to Las Vegas, to Budapest to Vegas, to New York, to Vegas, to
1:36.6	New York, to Vegas, to Vegas, to Rome. Of course, Vegas is where your mom and dad are. And I know you
1:43.1	which is very hot, by the way. I don't know if you know this, but it's hot mom and dad are. And I know you're taking care of it.
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