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Low-Stakes AI Scenarios, High-Stakes AI Viruses, and the Trump Catering Truck Escape, With Charlie Warzel

August 13, 2026·1h 7m
Episode Description from the Publisher

The Atlantic’s Charlie Warzel joins the podcast to help break down the small-potato scenarios of AI run amok. In this episode: (00:00) Intro (7:15) Low-stakes AI scenarios (40:21) Trump’s catering truck escape (43:57) AI viruses (47:22) The missing Nicolas Cage movie (54:18) Ancient Chinese civilization (57:02) Italy’s cheese banks (59:21) Flock stalking (1:03:26) Iranian money laundering Hosts: Jason Concepcion and Tyler Parker Guest: Charlie Warzel Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Justin Sayles Art direction: David Shoemaker Motion graphics and animations: Chris Calleton Engineering: Sarah Reddy Set design: Hannah Leiken and Jonathan Ratliff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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