Navigate today's most consequential AI developments—from unlimited energy to algorithmic diplomacy risks.Summary:Logan Reed explores ITER's fusion reactor breakthrough, the Supreme Court's revolutionary AI patent ruling, and Indonesia's life-saving earthquake prediction system. Discover how algorithmic hiring decisions face legal scrutiny and why a single AI translation error nearly triggered an international crisis.Key Topics:ATHENA's Fusion Control: How AI achieved the decades-long dream of sustainable fusion power—and the risks of algorithmic control of plasma hotter than the sun.AI as Legal Inventor: The Supreme Court's contentious 5-4 ruling recognizing machine creativity and its implications for intellectual property rights.TremorsNet's Earthquake Warning: Indonesia's successful prediction system and the balance between early warnings and false alarms.HireLogic's Age Discrimination Lawsuit: The algorithmic bias case reshaping employment law and corporate liability.AI Translation's Diplomatic Crisis: How language algorithms nearly triggered military mobilization between China and Taiwan.Resources:ITER ATHENA System Technical BriefSupreme Court AI Patent DecisionRelated Episodes:AI in Geopolitics: Translation and Misunderstanding (Episode #115)The Legal Personhood Question (Episode #109)

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