Is the Engineer Checking the Work, or Renting the Signature? An engineer's signature carries personal legal liability. You can be jailed for negligence, even if AI did the drawing. #CivilEngineering #Liability #TheInferencePodcast

Behind the scenes with Dr Michael Rustell. Who goes to jail when AI designs the bridge? Full episode Sunday on YouTube. #TheInferencePodcast #AI #Engineering

Why AI Labs Want Open Models Banned A competitor giving it away for free. "I need a moat." #OpenSource #OpenWeights #TheInferencePodcast

Pausing AI: Real Fear or IPO Strategy? The cynical view of why AI labs want to slow the frontier. #Anthropic #OpenAI #TheInferencePodcast

Is There an AI Bubble? Real technology, disproportionate speculation. Just like the railways and the internet. #AIBubble #Investing #TheInferencePodcast

Gig Work Flexibility Is a Myth Always online, chasing the next big job that never comes. It's a bit like gambling. #GigEconomy #Uber #TheInferencePodcast

AI Sacked Him. Who's Responsible? The boss and the AI pointing at each other like the Spider-Man meme. #AIAccountability #FutureOfWork #TheInferencePodcast

Is All Wage Labour Exploitation? The gap between what you produce and what you're paid. #Capitalism #Work #TheInferencePodcast

Big Tech Plus the State Is the Real Danger IBM and Nazi Germany showed what surveillance and power can do together. #BigTech #Surveillance #TheInferencePodcast

If a Human Boss Did This, It Would Be Illegal Pay-setting algorithms can learn to collude with each other. #Competition #AlgorithmicCollusion #TheInferencePodcast

Every ChatGPT Answer Is a Hallucination Right or wrong, the model is doing exactly the same thing. #ChatGPT #LLM #TheInferencePodcast

Uber Takes 5% on One Trip and 50% on the Next How variable commission quietly raised Uber's cut. #Uber #DynamicPricing #TheInferencePodcast

The Human in the Loophole Sometimes the human in the loop is only there to absorb the blame. #HumanInTheLoop #AIGovernance #TheInferencePodcast

Did Uber Design It, or Did AI Find It? Set the objective to maximise profit and the algorithm works out the rest. #ReinforcementLearning #Uber #TheInferencePodcast

The Only Way to Fight the Algorithm Platforms isolate workers. The answer is strength in numbers. #Unions #WorkerRights #TheInferencePodcast

Nurses Bidding Against Each Other for the Lowest Pay Uber's revenue per driver hour rose. Pay didn't. And nurses now bid for shifts downwards. #GigEconomy #Nurses #TheInferencePodcast

Something Decided What Your Uber Driver Got Paid It wasn't a person. It was an algorithm finding the minimum it could get away with. #Uber #AlgorithmicPay #TheInferencePodcast

Dynamic Pricing Makes the Desperate Pay More Surge pricing isn't about how rich you are. It's about how desperate you are. #DynamicPricing #Uber #TheInferencePodcast