Sep 7, 2026
AI voices are infiltrating more and more aspects of daily life. Interviewing for a job? Have a “conversation” with an AI voice. Don’t worry that it makes no sense, just do it. Mark plays examples of AI voices trying, and failing, to make any sense.
“Fraud prevention centers. Clean-energy optimization centers. Precision agriculture centers,” Higgins mused. “Because ‘data center’ describes the infrastructure, not the breakthroughs its computing power makes possible.”• Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With “North Dahota” and “Olkchoma” (Futurism, Aug 17, 2026): “Kentucky, for example, was mislabeled “Venecky,” while states like Texas and Louisiana were reimagined as ‘Taxas’ and ‘Lookoong.’”
Back in the real world, AI is supercharging fraud and environmental degradation at an unprecedented scale, while supplying some farmers with hallucinated advice resulting in easily-preventable crop failure.
