Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2025-09-10
Books mentioned on Governments and AI, Chapter One: New Tools, Old Game
Corporations across the planet are going crazy for AI -- and governments are no different. So what happens when new technology revolutionizes the same age-old interests of a government?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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2001, a Space Odyssey
2001, a Space Odyssey by Arthur C.
Discussed“Uh, it's sometimes villainous like Howal 9000 in 2001 of Space Odyssey or like AM in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.”
Where to get it
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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison is a seminal science fiction short story collection featuring dark, dystopian visions, most notably the tale of a malevolent supercomputer that tortures the last surviving humans.
Discussed“Uh, it's sometimes villainous like Howal 9000 in 2001 of Space Odyssey or like AM in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.”
Where to get it
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K.
Discussed“No, that's Isaac Azimov. He I I think when you asked that, Null and I were both thinking of do Android stream of electric sheet, which is Blade Runner.”
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CIA World Factbook
Discussed“What if it's just the CIA world fact book like as the primary piece of you know stuff that it's fed and then it's just and then it's just real time you know gathering at after that point but it's just everything in that book plus what's actually happening right now.”
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