A 12-PART SERIES · AUSSIE SCIENCE CLIPS
AI and Us
What AI means for people: jobs, ownership, energy and water, truth, fairness, creativity and safety, from the evidence rather than the headlines. Follows S6 "How AI Works", which explains the mechanics this season builds on.
EPISODE 1 · 12 min
Is AI going to take my job?
Last season ended on a question you may have asked yourself. The headlines swing from mass unemployment to nothing to see here. This season, AI and Us, we go to the evidence instead, and we say what each study actually…
EPISODE 2 · 11 min
Who owns what AI learned from?
Last time, we ended on a simple fact: these models were trained on other people's work. In 2025, Anthropic, the company that makes Claude, agreed to pay one and a half billion US dollars over about half a million…
EPISODE 3 · 12 min
How much energy and water does AI really use?
Last time, we left the courtroom for the machine room. And AI takes something you can touch: electricity, and water. In 2025, Google says its data centres and offices consumed about forty-one billion litres of water, a…
EPISODE 4 · 12 min
Can you still tell what's real?
Last time, we followed what AI uses. This time, it's what AI makes, and whether you can trust your own eyes and ears. Early in 2024, a finance worker in Hong Kong joined a video call with his company's chief financial…