The companion podcast to Issue No.84 of The Intersect. While an auction house spends a whole summit guessing what the newly minted AI rich might one day hang on a wall, Chelsea and Georgia sit with a sharper question: what if the tools those fortunes were built on are more interesting in the hands of the people pointing them the other way? A conversation about who's actually studying whom.
Contents
00:00 AI Wealth and Wall Art
00:04 The Coat That Blinds
00:09 Malware Garden Protest
00:11 Scanning Wrong on Purpose
00:14 Listening to the Quiet
In this episode
AI Wealth and Wall Art A summit billed as art plus tech turns out to be something closer to a sales forecast. Chelsea and Georgia unpack why the aperture felt so narrow - and whose mind might have been the real story on that stage.
The Coat That Blinds A garment wrapped in AI-generated noise that quietly refuses to be read as a human figure. Elegant judo, or a workaround for a problem that was never ours to wear? The full context is in the issue.
Malware Garden Protest Code that locks your machine for a day and grows a garden instead of demanding a ransom. We ask whether forced disconnection still means anything in an age when we pay to do it to ourselves.
Scanning Wrong on Purpose A school chair, a scanner fed only fragments, and a Golden Nica for the sculpture built from everything the machine couldn't see. When did a perfect scan become more truthful than an honest one?
Listening to the Quiet Magnetized needles tapping glass, letting you hear the Earth's magnetic field - but only if you slow down enough to bother. The gentlest thing in the issue, and maybe the most pointed.
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