brian schulmeister

Ep 768: Rosetta Broccoli Can AI be trusted to behave? Should billionaires control critical infrastructure? Why is protecting kids online still such a mess? We tackle these questions and more on the latest Grumpy Old Geeks. Bring snacks. And skepticism. gog.show/768/

Ep 767: Operation: Quiet Piggy From AI safety meltdowns & spy gadgets to hacked supermarket fridges, creepy car data collection & an $8 million music-streaming scam powered by bots: technology is doing great. Get your weekly dose of digital dysfunction! gog.show/767/

Ep 766: Skibidi! AI agents, brain scans, smart glasses, Flock surveillance and Meta privacy lawsuits. Apparently "leave people alone" is no longer a viable business model. Get grumpy with EP 766: gog.show/766 #podcast gog.show/766/ #GrumpyOldGeeks #Podcast

Ep 764: Super Duper Intelligence What could possibly go wrong when AI gets involved with weapons, intelligence, surveillance, shopping & autonomous agents? Quite a lot. The Geeks retreat into music, TV & skepticism - but make a U-Turn on vibe coding! gog.show/764/

New Episode! "763: Dr. Strangeclippy" This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, the future arrives without a steering wheel, apparently. We dig into Tesla’s Cybercab and the increasingly pressing question of h… Player links & show notes: gog.show/e/14142090136858/

Ep 762: ‘Tis But a Misalignment AI agents are ready to run the world! First they need to stop misaligning - leaking photos, hijacking websites & terrifying their own researchers. Plus Cybercabs, surveillance, Bitcoin heists, Trek cookware & more. gog.show/762/

Ep 761: Whatever... AI agents are hacking companies, lawyers are getting their own AI, and corporations are collecting billion-dollar fines like they're Pokémon. Plus Tesla doors, AI slop, Star Trek Muppets and more. The future is going great! gog.show/761/ #gog

Ep 760: Level 5 Podcasting Accident AI agents are hacking companies, lawyers are getting their own AI & corporations are collecting billion-dollar fines like they're Pokémon. Plus Tesla doors, AI slop, Star Trek Muppets & more. The future is going great! gog.show/760/

Ep 759: Seeking Mrs. Claude Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning over social media addiction; OpenAI is sidelining AI safety; Congress is letting ChatGPT write laws & Amazon is feeding books into the woodchopper & Peter Thiel gets greeted by Gandalf. gog.show/759/

Ep 758: Perverts at Large! Zuck says the future of AI depends on trusting humans, while his yacht ignores a distress call, AI agents hack gym resos, Meta's glasses become surveillance goggles for creeps & OpenAI goes ethicist-free. gog.show/758/

Ep 757: This Time With Chicks The AI industry is arguing with itself. Nvidia says don't regulate us. AI researchers say please regulate us.  Uber, Patreon & BuzzFeed cut jobs, China rents faces to AI, eBay pays $56M for pig mask harassment & Elon bores. gog.show/757/

Ep 756: Log Off, Touch Grass & Touch Ass The AI clown car is back: pirated books, escaped models, chatbot girlfriends, mood-tracking patents, getting banned from the dugouts & a school buying a classroom robot from the company behind RealDolls. gog.show/756/

Ep 755: Less Chatty Mode AI companies keep proving that trust is optional but hype is mandatory; Tech suing, spying & stumbling over its own ambitions; the real world quietly reminds us that humans & functioning infrastructure are still worth appreciating. gog.show/755/

The Darkside with Dave's Not Very Christmas Special Special We finally get to reconnect with Dave Bittner for a fun catch-up and chit-chat about this summer's big movies. Brian's kid discovers all of Star Wars at once. gog.show/the-darkside-with-d…

Ep 754: Frankly Asinine Questions AI getting weirder, Meta getting creepier, Waymos keep getting stuck & somehow Gen X turned out to be America's critical infrastructure. Another week in tech dystopia & the Grumpy Old Geeks have thoughts.. & questions. gog.show/754/

Ep 753: No-Talent AI Clowns The AI revolution keeps delivering exactly the future nobody asked for. AI-powered hackers, Ford rehiring engineers it tried to replace, Tesla settles another FSD lawsuit, robot strikes, satellite overload, red flags. COMPUTE! gog.show/753/

Ep 752: Grandma Got Run Over By a Tesla AI startups sue when the magic API disappears, Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs, Meta leaks employee surveillance data, AI price-fixing lawsuits, robotaxi recalls, burner phone crackdowns, ad blocker extinction & goats. gog.show/752/

Ep 751: Brewster's Trillions The AI hype train is missing some wheels. We cover KPMG's hallucinated report, Meta's AI mess, OpenAI's massive losses, AI sovereignty panic, platform rug pulls, crypto @ the White House & a flip phone that bans social media. gog.show/751/