Drag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27

EPISODE · Nov 18, 2025 · 56 MIN

Drag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27

from Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 · host Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

It's been six months since our last all-Hell episode! In honor of Halloween season, we take a long journey into the very scary Fresh AI Hell mines. Topics include terrifying uses of AI in education, scientific research, and politics — plus, some delicious palate cleansers along the way.AI bubble: bigger than dot-com bust?No one wants to pay for ChatGPTMeta lays off 600 from AI unitAI data centers: an even bigger disaster than we thoughtPublic universities anticipate data center-driven power outagesChaser: Deloitte has to pay back Albanese government after using AI in report"AI" schools are "dead classrooms"Fake sources in "ethical AI" education reportParents letting kids play with AIStartup sells 'synthetic influencers'AI-powered textbooks fail to make the gradeChaser: "High-reliability" AI slopNature offers "AI-powered research assistant"AI bots wrote all papers at this conference"AI" reviewing at AAAIAI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and POCTherapists are secretly using ChatGPTChaser: Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its technologyGerman initiative uses "AI" for voter educationPolice gunshot detection mics will listen for human voicesSF's AI chatbot for RV dwellersCuomo campaign posts racist AI slopDHS Ordered OpenAI To Share User DataChaser: LA County moves to limit license plate trackingA new form of eugenics"AI Superintelligence" prohibition letterEmad Mostaque's LLM blurbsPrizes must recognize machine contributions to discoveryChaser: The hot new trend in markCheck out future streams on Twitch. Meanwhile, send us any AI Hell you see.Find our book The AI Con here, and MAIHT3k merch here.Subscribe to our newsletter via Buttondown.Follow us!EmilyBluesky: emilymbender.bsky.socialMastodon: dair-community.social/@EmilyMBenderAlexBluesky: alexhanna.bsky.socialMastodon: dair-community.social/@alexTwitter: @alexhannaMusic by Toby Menon.Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.

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