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System Malfunction Podcast

Exposing the glitches in the very mechanisms we’ve trusted for so long. systemmalfunction.substack.com

Podcast · By Hessie Jones · English · Official site

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Sep 17, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 17, 2026

    Interview with Margaret Mitchell: Stochastic Parrots and the LLM Quandary (opens the original)

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    General Purpose Systems, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agents are now the most debated topics today. They are touted as enabling significant progress since LLMs were introduced three years ago. The irony of progress has meant hiccups—for these systems and the capabilities they produce, these hiccups are life threatening, economically, mentally, and personally. The hype peddled by frontier companies are distractions from these very real consequences. The power that comes from a handful of Big

  2. Episode · Aug 10, 2026

    Impeding the Rise of the AI Psychosis Epidemic (opens the original)

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    This is the video Healthcare innovation carries unusual responsibility. Founders are not just shipping, they are entering clinical workflows, family systems, and policy environments where trust is hard-won and mistakes can have real human consequences. I invited Shirali Nigam and Arul Nigam, Co-founders of Circuit Breaker Labs to present their technology for building safe AI. This session covers technical fundamentals : how LLMs work, the risks that emerge from those mechanics, and how to design

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