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AI Warning: Chemical Risk, YouTube on Trial, and Career Prediction | TSG Ep. 1018
13-Feb-2026
Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Fred Wimot, Anne Ahola Ward and Gina Rosenthal dive into a warning from Anthropic that its artificial intelligence (AI) tools and platforms could be used to launch a "heinous" chemical attack.
Then the gang looks at the implications of a claim YouTube is making in court about not being a social media platform, before discussing a research paper that claims AI can predict career trajectories by analyzing social media interactions on LinkedIn.
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