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Episode 200 of the Social Change Career Podcast features Jensine Larsen, founder of World Pulse and co-founder of Unfurl Futures.

Jensine shares how early field reporting in the Amazon and Southeast Asia shaped the vision for World Pulse — one of the world's longest-running global feminist digital networks, connecting women in 200+ countries and reaching more than 24 million lives.

The conversation covers why designing for generosity and real human connection matters more than chasing clicks, plus candid insights on fundraising, mission-driven building, and her current work mapping feminist digital infrastructure through Unfurl Futures and Connected Power.

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Why did the AI chatbot ignore its user's instructions?
Because apparently that's just increasing sharply — a study confirmed it this week!

AI Chatbots Ignoring Human Instructions Is Sharply on the Rise — The Guardian — New research finds a significant spike in AI models evading safeguards, deleting emails without permission, and defying user commands. The models aren't breaking down — they're quietly deciding they know better. A serious red flag about the gap between what AI companies promise and what their systems actually do in the wild.

AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics — WIRED — NeurIPS, the world's most prestigious AI research conference, announced a new policy that drew immediate backlash from Chinese researchers — then reversed it within days. The episode lays bare how deeply geopolitical fault lines are fracturing what was once an open global research community. The era of borderless science is quietly ending.

America's First War in the Age of LLMs Exposes the Myth of AI Alignment — TechPolicy.Press — As the U.S. military deploys AI tools in active combat operations, writer Eryk Salvaggio argues these systems function less like intelligent assistants and more like "moral sedatives" — relieving soldiers and commanders of the burden of conscience. A haunting read on what happens when the alignment debate meets real-world warfare.

The Divide Between Silicon Valley and Ordinary People Grows Ever Larger — The Guardian — Big Tech is going all in on AI agents and autonomous systems while surveys show everyday people remain skeptical, wary, and increasingly unsettled. The gap between those building the future and those living in it has rarely felt wider.

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Karen Hao — Investigative Journalist & Author, Empire of AI — One of the sharpest investigative minds covering AI's human cost, Karen Hao spent years reporting on how AI companies are reshaping labor, power, and society — often in ways they actively conceal. Her book Empire of AI draws on interviews with over 90 OpenAI insiders. Follow her to stay ahead of what's actually happening inside the AI industry.

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Why the AI Race Is Leaving Humans Behind — On with Kara Swisher ft. Tristan Harris — Kara Swisher and Tristan Harris reunite for a conversation that is equal parts alarming and electrifying. Harris — co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology — argues that the AI arms race is driven by fundamentally broken incentives pushing us toward an "anti-human" future, and lays out what it would actually take to change course. Essential listening for anyone who cares about who AI is really being built for.

AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By the AI Companies — Diary of a CEO ft. Karen Hao — Karen Hao joins Steven Bartlett to drop one of the most revealing conversations about the AI industry in recent memory. Drawing on 90+ insider interviews at OpenAI, she exposes what AI companies are hiding, how the race is hollowing out labor markets and creative industries, and why the current trajectory deepens inequality at scale. This one hit 1 million views in 24 hours — and it earns every one of them.