Hack The Planet!

Hack The Planet!

We're back and better than ever! Welcome to season 2 of Kill All Humans, Data in Pop Culture. It seems like so much has happened between the end of last season and today - Generative AI, Elon buying Twitter, TikTok under scrutiny.... So what better to start off our second season with than one of our favourite films, Hackers! In this episode, Tim and Matthew discuss the real and fantastical elements of this mid-90s masterpiece, including themes of social engineering attacks, influences on pop and corporate culture, neurodiversity, sexism, and law enforcement.   Enjoy the show, and make sure you subscribe and share!

Star Trek Voyager - AI on Trial

Tim and Matthew are BACK with a brand new episode! Today, we talk about the classic problem of AI and the law - how would one put a collection of algorithms on trial, or even find them legally liable for their own actions? We explored this idea through the classic Star Trek Voyager episode "Author Author" [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708851/]. Remember to like, subscribe, share, or leave a review!

Contagion - Well, they DID try to warn us...

On today's episode, Matthew and Tim rewatched the 2011 movie Contagion, and dig into how scarily precedent this movie was for today's pandemic. We look at the pandemic in not only terms of hard numbers for health care, but also in terms of roads, consumer goods (like toilet paper!), and even go into why it's never a good idea for governments to underinvest in data infrastructure. We did this all while trying to maintain a sense of humour...enjoy!

Minority Report - Banking on the Utter Infallibility of Humanity

On today's episode, Tim and Matthew talk about the 2002 classic "Minority Report", and what lessons and parallels in data we can take away for today's society. We discuss the surveillance state and data, and the idea of perfect information creating imperfect outcomes. Enjoy the show! Make sure you're subscribing, liking, and rating us - otherwise we have to have our bots do it.

Ron’s Right - ZUCK’S Gone Wrong

On this week's episode of Kill All Humans, Tim and Matthew talk about Ron's Gone Wrong, a movie about boy and his...let's just say quirky robot. The movie explores the themes around what it means to make friends in the age of social media, so Matthew and Tim decided to try their best to explain how exactly Facebook and all those algorithms you keep hearing about work. Chances are Facebook isn't going to sponsor this podcast any time soon! In other news, this podcast is now available on virtually any platform, like Spotify, iTunes, Google, iHeartRadio, and more! Please like, subscribe, review, or share. It will help our show reach more people!