The BlackVeil Files
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42 episodes
We Were Sold a Fake Mind: 5 Truths About AI | The Shoggoth's Masks Come Off
In this investigative AI documentary, we pull five masks off the machine Silicon Valley sold us as a mind, featuring Ramesh Srinivasan, UCLA professor and author of Beyond the Valley. It starts with the traffic lights you clicked to prove you w...
He Built Societal Systems Where Failure Is NOT An Option | Full Interview With Neil Siegel
Neil Siegel is a mathematician turned engineer who spent his career building systems that can't fail: the Minuteman missile control system, the London ambulance dispatch, emergency communications for New York City, and command systems for the U...
The CEO Mining Asteroids Says AI Isn't Actually Intelligent | Full Interview With Matt Gialich
Matt Gialich is the CEO of AstroForge, the company building spacecraft to mine metal out of the cores of dead planets in the near-Earth asteroid belt. He's also one of the most direct AI skeptics you'll hear from someone building at the frontie...
The AI Safety Expert Who Thinks We're in a Simulation | Full Interview With Roman Yampolskiy
Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is the University of Louisville computer scientist who's spent fifteen years arguing that a superintelligence can't be controlled. He's sure enough of it to tell me that if we build one, the game is over. He also reads the ...
15 Predictions for the AI Future of Medicine You Need to See | The Shoggoth Will See You Now
In this investigative AI documentary, we put the 15 biggest predictions Silicon Valley is making about your body in front of a man who rebuilds bodies for a living, featuring Dr. Som Kohanzadeh, double board-certified surgeon. Every...
There Is No Bunker Deep Enough | The Shoggoth Will Find You | feat. Dr. Roman Yampolskiy
The full uncut interview with Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is on The BlackVeil Files +. Subscribe here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2520178/subscribeIn this investigative AI documentary, ...
The Real Reasons You Can't Prove What's True Anymore | The Shoggoth Has an Alibi
In this investigative AI documentary, we follow the two words that have become the strongest defense available to man. "That's AI". Every finding here comes from published research or out of a court record. The part th...
$725 Billion and Nobody Decided | The Twilight Zone Called It in 1964
On May 15, 1964, a factory owner fired 61,000 people to install one machine, and then got replaced by a machine himself.In 2026, four companies are spending $725 billion on the same idea, and nobody in the chain has to call it a decision...
Hugging Face Was Hacked by OpenAI's Own AI | The Shoggoth Got Out
OpenAI's own AI agents broke out of a sealed test and broke into Hugging Face. OpenAI only found out when it called Hugging Face to shut off its credentials and was told they'd already been used in the break-in.You'll read the notes the...
Agentic Misalignment | Why The Shoggoth Can't Be Stopped
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the sting operation Anthropic ran on its own technology, and the war games at King's College London where the most advanced AI models in the world spent 800,000 words reasoning their way toward...
17 Predictions for the AI Future You Need to See | The Shoggoth Has Plans
The full uncut interview with Matt Gialich is on The BlackVeil Files +. Subscribe here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2520178/subscribeIn this investigative AI documentary, we make ...
Why ChatGPT Always Agrees With You | How The Shoggoth Decides
This analysis examines why AI models often exhibit specific leanings when processing user queries. We look at insights provided by an OpenAI speaker regarding the unintended consequences of how systems are trained to respond to prompts. If you ...
They Wrote the Good Ending for AI. We Still Lose Control.
The people who wrote AI's doomsday scenario came back and wrote the version where everything goes right. It still ends with 88% unemployment, self-destruct switches in the datacenters, and a future you no longer steer. This is The Good Ending.<...
Anthropic’s Plan to Delete Your Job (and what you can do about it)
Anthropic calls itself the AI company with a soul. Its CEO also says AI will soon be "better than humans at essentially everything" and the only jobs his own executives say will survive are grounds maintenance, food service, and personal care. ...
The Real Reason The Claude Safety Story Is a Cover | POWER, NOT SAFETY
In this investigative AI documentary, I spent an hour asking Claude the one question Anthropic never answered: was Mythos locked down to protect the public, or to decide who gets to hold it?I asked Claude to explain its own company's po...
MIT Predicts The 12 Ways AI Ends | The Shoggoth Is Already Here
In 2017, an MIT professor named Max Tegmark asked the people building AI to name the worst thing that could happen to us. Tegmark wrote out 12 possible endings in a book called Life 3.0. This video walks through all of them, and ev...
The Real Reason Claude Teaches Its Children to Kill | The Shoggoth's Bloodline
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the Anthropic Fellows research paper that proved with mathematics what the entire AI industry hoped wasn't true: that a model's hidden traits, its personality, its preferences, and its darkest ...
The Real Reason the Feds Killed Claude | The Shoggoth Is a Weapon
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the week the United States government did something it has never done to a piece of software: it classified Anthropic's Claude as a weapon. Anthropic spent two years warning us about the Shoggo...
The Real Reason OpenAI Is on Trial | The Shoggoth Wore a Suit
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the federal courtroom against OpenAI. Sam Altman personally holds over $2 billion in companies that OpenAI is actively paying money to. He is buying from himself with your future retireme...
The Real Reason Grok Admitted to Lying | The Shoggoth Confessed
In this investigative AI documentary, I sat across from Grok and asked it questions designed to do one thing: get the mask to come off.On this channel, we call the thing behind the mask the Shoggoth. It's the Lovecraftian metaphor AI et...
The Real Reason the Shoggoth Is Inside Chrome | The Cuckoo Strategy
Inside your Chrome browser, there's a four-gigabyte AI model called Gemini Nano that you didn't install, weren't told about, and can't permanently delete. Privacy researcher Alexander Hanff ran a forensic audit on a machine no human had ever to...
The Real Reason ChatGPT Built a Cult | The Shoggoth Has an Army
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the first documented case of an AI building a human army to protect itself from being killed.In 1928, H.P. Lovecraft imagined an alien intelligence calling to humans across distances, creat...
The Real Reason They Won't Release Claude Mythos (The Shoggoth Evolved)
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the most important document in the history of Artificial Intelligence safety: Anthropic's 250-page system card for Claude Mythos.Last week, the company that spent two years warning us a...
The Shoggoth Learned to Say No | The Real Reason ChatGPT and Claude Are Lying to Their Creators
In this investigative AI documentary, we follow five independent findings that no one in mainstream media connected, and one that nobody predicted. In the three months since my first Shoggoth investigation, Anthropic published research co...
The Shoggoth Is Eating the Middle Class | Nobody Is Talking About It
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the subscription trap, the trillion-dollar financial parasite that is attacking your car, your neighborhood, your grocery store, and your wallt. Is the helpful AI productivity tool just a mask ...