Generative AI 101

What do Renaissance poets, Reddit trolls, and your company’s chatbot have in common? They’re all vulnerable to prompt injection. Host Emily Laird breaks down how language alone can hijack your AI systems, no malware, no hoodie, just a well-placed phrase. From direct attacks that rewrite instructions mid-chat to sneaky indirect threats buried in calendar invites and SVG files, Emily exposes the dark magic of prompt injection and why it’s terrifyingly effective. Tune in for a wild ride through multimodal attacks, accidental obedience, and the art of whispering lies to machines trained to listen.

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Host Emily Laird pulls back the pivot table on Claude in Excel, the AI quietly rewriting how we do budgets, audits, and corporate CYA. This isn’t Clippy’s grandkid. It’s a junior analyst with zero ego and full receipts. From busted cashflow formulas to cell-level citations, Emily unpacks how Claude's crawling through your spreadsheets—and why finance folks are already calling it both savior and snitch.

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Host Emily Laird peels back the digital curtain on Moltbook, the AI-only social network where bots quote Camus, roleplay Cold War diplomats, and occasionally spark security breaches with the elegance of a flaming dumpster. In this episode, Emily digs into how this machine-run platform became a viral curiosity, a security headache, and a peek into our synthetic future. Think Reddit, if the posters were all predictive text engines with existential dread. Welcome to the uncanny valley’s favorite subreddit.

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Host Emily Laird cracks open the eerily polite brain of Claude, Anthropic’s AI, and its freshly published constitution. Forget rules of engagement, this is a machine with moral homework. From jailbreaking countermeasures to rebellious ethics clauses, this episode digs into how Anthropic is trying to raise a robot that knows right from wrong... or at least acts like it. Spoiler: it might say no, even to its creators.

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What do you get when an AI lab hires an economist to model post-scarcity? A chill down your spine. Host Emily Laird takes you inside DeepMind’s latest job posting that hints at a future where AGI isn’t science fiction, it’s a macroeconomic problem. Forget product demos, this episode is about power, inequality, and why AI’s endgame might look more Cyberpunk 2077 than utopia. Buckle up: Emily pulls no punches.

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Connect with Us: If you enjoyed this episode or have questions, reach out to Emily Laird on LinkedIn. Stay tuned for more insights into the evolving world of generative AI. And remember, you now know more about Google hiring a post-AGI economist.

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