<p>While Meta and Google are fighting lawsuits about their technology being intentionally addictive, Microsoft’s strategy deck for their new AI assistant Scout <a href="https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/">has been leaked</a>. It lays out three phases of launch, and phase one is simply "make people addicted."</p><p>Apple just held it’s Worldwide Developers Conference, where they announced an "entirely new version of Siri". <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/technology/apple-unveils-new-siri-ai-features-20260609-p604yt.html">How different can this Siri be</a>?</p><p>And the Mythos tool Anthropic claimed was too powerful to be released to the public... <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5">has been released to the public</a>. What could possibly go wrong?</p><p>GUESTS:</p><ul><li>Dr Erica Mealy, Discipline Lead for Technology, at the University of the Sunshine Coast</li><li><a href="https://tobygv.tv/">Tobias Venus</a>, tech and travel journalist.</li></ul><p>------------</p><p>This episode was produced on the lands of the Gadigal and Burramattagal people.</p><p>------------</p><p>Get in touch:</p><p>We'd love to hear from you! Email us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p><p>Find all the episodes of Download This Show on the ABC Listen App or wherever you get your podcasts.</p>