Episode 91 - Silicon Séance

This month, Against All Oddities enters the silicon séance room to ask a troubling question: what happens when humanity's accumulated occult knowledge starts talking back? We explore AI as oracle, guru, summoner, and brainwave tuner. Can large language models become intermediaries between ourselves and whatever else is out there, or is it a bad idea to trust a chaotic-neutral actor trained on the entirety of human knowledge? Obviously, this topic was always going to get us talking about the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. With only minor spoilers, we unabashedly stan the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and discuss the plight of Carl, Donut, and an absurd apocalypse that may have become an unexpectedly useful lens for understanding our algorithmic future.