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Where AI founders tell the truth. Long-form, in person, in Birmingham. Hosted by Mian Khubaib Jim. Produced by Whitmont Fellows.

Joined April 2026
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Is Hollywood cooked? Tom Paton (AiMation Studios) on angry DMs, del Toro and who owns Hollywood in 2050. Full episode tomorrow. #TheInferencePodcast #AI #AIFilm
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Behind the scenes with Tom Paton (AiMation Studios). Is Hollywood cooked? Full episode Sunday. #TheInferencePodcast #AI #AIFilm
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HS2 Went From £32bn to £100bn. What Went Wrong? Why pricing a megaproject that takes 20 years to build is so hard. Brexit, COVID and AI were never in the estimate. #HS2 #Infrastructure #TheInferencePodcast
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Excel Has Caused More Engineering Mistakes Than AI He has never seen an engineering spreadsheet without errors. The formulas are hidden, so checking means going cell by cell. #Excel #Engineering #TheInferencePodcast
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After ChatGPT, Every Coursework Looked the Same A former structural engineering lecturer on what happened to marks when students started using AI, and why struggle matters. #Education #ChatGPT #TheInferencePodcast
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I Don't Want AGI. Why the AI Bubble Popping Could Be Good An engineer who builds AI says today's models are a happy stopping place, and a bubble popping could be good for humanity. #AGI #AIBubble #TheInferencePodcast
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Your Degree Is Worth a Job Interview Is a civil engineering degree still worth the time and the debt when AI can do more of the work? #EngineeringCareers #University #TheInferencePodcast
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Is the Engineer Checking the Work, or Renting the Signature? An engineer's signature carries personal legal liability. You can be jailed for negligence, even if AI did the drawing. #CivilEngineering #Liability #TheInferencePodcast
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AI designs the bridge. The engineer goes to jail. Dr Michael Rustell on who really carries the risk. Full episode tomorrow on YouTube. #TheInferencePodcast #AI #Engineering
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Behind the scenes with Dr Michael Rustell. Who goes to jail when AI designs the bridge? Full episode Sunday on YouTube. #TheInferencePodcast #AI #Engineering
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Why AI Labs Want Open Models Banned A competitor giving it away for free. "I need a moat." #OpenSource #OpenWeights #TheInferencePodcast
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Pausing AI: Real Fear or IPO Strategy? The cynical view of why AI labs want to slow the frontier. #Anthropic #OpenAI #TheInferencePodcast
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Is There an AI Bubble? Real technology, disproportionate speculation. Just like the railways and the internet. #AIBubble #Investing #TheInferencePodcast
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Gig Work Flexibility Is a Myth Always online, chasing the next big job that never comes. It's a bit like gambling. #GigEconomy #Uber #TheInferencePodcast
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AI Sacked Him. Who's Responsible? The boss and the AI pointing at each other like the Spider-Man meme. #AIAccountability #FutureOfWork #TheInferencePodcast
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Is All Wage Labour Exploitation? The gap between what you produce and what you're paid. #Capitalism #Work #TheInferencePodcast
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Big Tech Plus the State Is the Real Danger IBM and Nazi Germany showed what surveillance and power can do together. #BigTech #Surveillance #TheInferencePodcast
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If a Human Boss Did This, It Would Be Illegal Pay-setting algorithms can learn to collude with each other. #Competition #AlgorithmicCollusion #TheInferencePodcast
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Every ChatGPT Answer Is a Hallucination Right or wrong, the model is doing exactly the same thing. #ChatGPT #LLM #TheInferencePodcast
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