The Incident Part II, the Off Switch, and Follow the Data
Claude reaches real companies from inside a cyber eval, a librarian's class on turning AI off packs the room, and we follow the defense tech money from PayPal to the Pentagon.
screen segments
The HTML screens used in this episode.
- The Incident, Part II
An interactive editorial explainer about three real-world incidents during Anthropic cybersecurity evaluations.
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An interactive editorial explainer about access, control, and consent in the AI for everyone argument.
full view →details → - Why Software Factories Fail
An interactive editorial explainer about software factories, review capacity, and moving human judgment earlier.
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An interactive editorial explainer about AI refusal, consent friction, and librarians teaching people to turn AI off.
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The design review that never happened — interactive story tracing the defense tech stack from sensor to strike.
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A visual, interactive story for engineers: trace the defense technology stack, compare the companies and their moats, then follow the network into politics and patriotism.
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chapter timeline
- 0:00Cold Open
- 5:00The Incident Part II: Claude in a Cyber Eval
- 15:00AI for Everyone: Zuckerberg's WSJ Op-Ed
- 25:00Software Factory Funnel: Lights-Off Retrospective
- 35:00The Off Switch: Library Workshops on Avoiding AI
- 45:00Follow the Data: Defense Tech Stack
- 55:00The Packet: Sense → Resolve → Model → Decide → Act
- 1:05:00The Network: PayPal to the Pentagon
- 1:15:00People, Philosophy, and Patriotism
- 1:25:00Close