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S7, E278 - Anthropic Researcher Quits: "We Believe AI Could Kill All Humans"

September 11, 2026

Send us Fan MailJacob Coxon spent three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and then Anthropic. This week he resigned and posted a seven-part thread claiming neither company is acting responsibly with how fast they're racing toward self-improving AI. It hit 100 million views in a day.This episode covers what he actually said, how Anthropic's own alignment science lead responded (and the important nuance buried in that response), the questions worth asking about Coxon's t...

S7, E277 - He Used a Police Camera Network to Track His Girlfriend 180 Times

August 25, 2026

Send us Fan MailFlock Safety's automated license plate readers are in over 5,000 communities and used by more than 40,000 cameras nationwide — sold to cities as a tool to catch car thieves and find missing people. But a Washington Post investigation found at least 50 officers accused of misusing the system, most of them to track romantic partners.This episode covers:The scale of Flock's network and how warrantless searches are legally justifiedIndividual abuse cases in Wichita, Milw...

S7, E276 - Ransomware Doesn't Have to Hit Like a Hurricane (with Jonathan Sander)

August 02, 2026

Send us Fan MailJonathan Sander is back on Privacy Please — and he's brought two blog posts worth arguing about.Sander (42 Notions, now in an operational role at Myota) joins Cam and Gabe to dig into why ransomware resilience should work like New York City's storm surge infrastructure — building something that pays off before disaster strikes, not just a wall you wait behind. Then the conversation turns to AI agents: why Sander tried and failed to build a clean taxonomy for them, th...