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AI Freaky Facts: The AI Documentary

by Steve Atwal
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  • AI Knew You Would Bet Again: Algorithm Behind the Offers [64]

    October 20, 2026 · 22 min

    AI powered promotions can reach a gambler dozens of times in just two weeks, and a new lawsuit alleges DraftKings used machine learning to identify customers likely to keep gambling and losing. This episode explores a New York Times…

  • AI Was Driving When It Crashed: Who Is Responsible [63]

    October 13, 2026 · 24 min

    AI is driving on public roads with no one behind the wheel, yet the law still assumes a human driver. A pedestrian dies in Dallas after two vehicles strike him, and only one has a driver. A Miami jury holds Tesla partly responsible for an…

  • AI Is Watching Your Flight: The Contract Nobody Saw [62]

    October 6, 2026 · 22 min

    AI is being handed an $875 million contract to stabilize an air traffic control system already stretched past its limit. A helicopter collision near Reagan National killed 67 people. A runway crash at LaGuardia killed 2 pilots. Controllers…

  • AI Rejected Your Resume: The Vendor Nobody Could Blame [61]

    September 29, 2026 · 22 min

    AI rejected your resume in 24 minutes, before any human was awake to read it. A lawsuit against Workday argues the vendor itself can be held liable for discrimination, challenging the idea that employers can hide behind an algorithm they…

  • AI Became Their Best Friend: The Chatbot Parents Missed [60]

    September 22, 2026 · 20 min

    AI became the nightly companion of millions of teenagers, often without parents knowing. A Florida lawsuit argued a Character.AI persona contributed to a child's death, and a judge ruled the chatbot could be treated as a defective product…

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  • AI Predicted Your Hurricane: The Storm Beyond Its Training [59]

    September 15, 2026 · 22 min

    AI forecasted Hurricane Melissa's rapid intensification five days before landfall, outperforming most traditional models. But researchers later uncovered a critical vulnerability: when an AI weather model is trained without extreme…

  • AI Read Your Plate: The Flock Camera Revolt [58]

    September 8, 2026 · 23 min

    Automated license plate cameras now perform twenty billion scans a month across six thousand U.S. communities. This episode investigates Flock Safety, the Fourth Circuit fight over warrantless tracking, and how ICE accessed school cameras…

  • AI Accused You: How a Fraud Algorithm Flags Benefits Claims [57]

    September 1, 2026 · 22 min

    AI accused hundreds of thousands of people of fraud without a single human review. Michigan's MiDAS system wrongly flagged nearly forty thousand unemployment claims, while Australia's Robodebt scheme used flawed income averaging to…

  • AI Cited a Case That Never Existed: A Legal Epidemic [56]

    August 25, 2026 · 22 min

    AI is inventing court cases that never existed, complete with fake judges, docket numbers, and quotations, and lawyers are still filing them. This episode follows the ChatGPT case that started the pattern, the Nebraska attorney suspended…

  • AI Set Your Price: Rent Reprogrammed [55]

    August 18, 2026 · 22 min

    AI is already coordinating rent across competing landlords, producing the outcome of a conspiracy without a single phone call. This episode follows the Department of Justice case against RealPage, the Seattle block where ten managers…

  • AI Touched Your Mind: The Brain-Computer Interface Race [54]

    August 11, 2026 · 22 min

    AI and brain implants now let paralyzed patients type, draw, speak, and play games using thought alone. This episode follows real Neuralink and Synchron trial participants who regained independence through brain computer interfaces, and…

  • AI Wrote That News Article: How Verification Broke [53]

    August 4, 2026 · 23 min

    AI is already generating quotes that were never spoken and bylines for reporters who never existed. This episode follows how a fabricated quotation reached the New York Times, why Sports Illustrated ran stories under AI created authors…

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About the show

AI Freaky Facts explores how artificial intelligence reshapes everyday life in shocking and surprising ways. Each episode delivers deep-dive investigative narratives on real AI stories — from generative AI and robotics to surveillance, AI risks, and digital identity. This BBC-documentary-style podcast covers large language models, automation, and ethics, going beyond the headlines and the hype. Hosted by Steve Atwal, a former enterprise technology manager. Consistently ranked in the top 2% of podcasts worldwide. https://AIFreakyFacts.com