01-08-2025
Is Snapchat's My AI a safe space or a slippery slope for teens?
Snapchat's new AI chatbot is already raising alarms among teens and parents, with poor privacy features and no access to parental guardrails without paying for a premium subscription, is this feature really as dangerous as it sounds?
Also, major automakers are cancelling their upcoming electric vehicle launches in the US - what does this mean for us here in Australia? And unlike Elon Musk's brain-computer interface, Synchron's doesn't require open-skull surgery, and it has an OpenAI chatbot baked in. Is this a win for disability tech? Or the first step towards a Terminator-like revolution?
Plus, how do you stop an AI model turning Nazi? What does the Grok drama reveal about how we train our large language models? And is there a better way to be doing it?
GUESTS:
Tobias Venus , technology and travel journalist
technology and travel journalist
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson, Future Economies reporter for the Australian Associated Press
This episode of Download This Show was made on Gadigal land and in Meanjin.
Technical production by Ann-Marie Debettencour and Allyse Symons.
