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Radio 4,04 Dec 2025,36 mins

AI Hallucinations (with Stewart Lee and Sarah Wynn-Williams)

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This week, Armando is joined again by Stewart Lee to discuss the language around AI. They are also joined by public policy expert and author of Careless People, A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism Sarah Wynn-Williams. For legal reasons, Sarah is not allowed to say anything negative about Meta, so we discuss lots of other areas around tech and AI. We look at hallucinations - what are they, and are they solvable? Do we respond to the sycophancy of AI? Should there be rules around AI in weapons, and why is that even up for debate? We also take a retrospective look at the budget, headlice, and the Your Party members' decision to call Your Party 'Your Party'. Got a strong message for Armando? Email us on [email protected] and your email could be read out on our listener mailbag special episode over the festive period Sound editing: Rich Evans Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Recorded at The Sound Company Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A BBC Studios production for Radio 4.

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