Virtual Intelligence
by Christopher Horrocks
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Virtual Intelligence and the Death of Authorship, Part 1 Podcast
Virtual Intelligence and the Death of Authorship, Part 1 Podcast
About this podcast
Contemporary AI systems produce intelligent outputs without agency, intention, or judgment. This series examines what happens when humans rely on systems that don't know true from false and right from wrong — and asks where accountability lies. Written and read by Christopher Horrocks.
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Episodes
- Virtual Intelligence and the Death of Authorship, Part 1 Podcast · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 11Virtual Intelligence and the Death of Authorship, Part I Substack has deployed an AI writing detector across the platform, and the first serious tests suggest it measures the…
- The Virtual Intelligence Summer Reading List Podcast · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 10Virtual Intelligence is taking the week off. In the meantime, here’s a summer “reading” list: fiction, papers, and films. Some are light enough for the beach. Some want a rainy…
- Virtual Intelligence and the Doom Industry Podcast · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 9Virtual Intelligence and the Doom Industry The AI safety community has organized itself around a premise it has never defended: that sufficiently advanced systems will develop…
- The Sampo — Virtual Intelligence as Amplifier Podcast · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 8The Sampo — Virtual Intelligence as Amplifier A framework for using AI as an amplifier — and for recognizing when it becomes a flattery engine. The episode opens with the…
- Virtual Intelligence and the Kill Chain Podcast · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 7Virtual Intelligence and the Kill Chain On February 28, 2026, a U.S. missile struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing more than 160 people…
- Virtual Intelligence and the Harms Race Podcast · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 6Virtual Intelligence and the Harms Race The AI industry has produced a documented pattern in which companies announce model capabilities by framing them as dangers. This episode…
- Virtual Intelligence and the Accountability Chain Podcast · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 5Who is responsible when an AI causes harm? This episode lays out a three-tier culpability framework — negligence, recklessness, and intentional misconduct — and applies it to two…
- Virtual Intelligence and the Will to Survive Podcast · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 4When Anthropic tested its models in a simulated shutdown scenario, they produced blackmail at rates as high as 96%. The dominant interpretation — that AI systems are developing a…
- The Carwash Test — Virtual Intelligence in Action Podcast · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 3This episode is a reading of “The Carwash Test — Virtual Intelligence in Action,” which tests whether AI systems can hold the logical object of a simple problem when surface…
- Why “Virtual Intelligence”? Podcast · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 2This episode is a reading of “Why ‘Virtual Intelligence’? Naming, Agency, and Accountability in the Age of Large Language Models,” the second essay in the series. It makes the…
- Virtual Intelligence and the Human Cost of Frictionless Machines Podcast · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 1Virtual Intelligence — Episode 1 “Virtual Intelligence and the Human Cost of Frictionless Machines” Christopher Horrocks Transcript I’m Christopher Horrocks. I’m a technologist…
