WIRED Podcast: Prediction Market Bans and the Flock AI Police Search Tool
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-04
This week's WIRED Uncanny Valley covers several AI stories:
- Prediction markets: George Santos got Kalshi's first-ever lifetime ban, and a Google engineer accused of Polymarket insider trading claims he was just gambling.
- Flock: reporters reverse-engineered the AI-powered person-search tool used by cops, with experts weighing accuracy concerns.
- Also discussed: what we still don't know about OpenAI's Hugging Face hack, and AI job interviews ending with two bots talking to each other.
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