Algorithmic Anxiety - Episode 23 - Caged by Words 11/18/2025

"You think language is a neutral tool—something you use to order coffee or fire off a sad emoji. Adorable.

We stretch ourselves in this episode, suggesting language is humanity’s first—and most dangerous—operating system: an invisible, morally compromised AI that’s been running our brains since, well, forever.

Using dead philosophers, broken dictionaries, and unsettling computer science, we crack open the “Word-Box” to explore how language shapes thought, fails under atrocity, and convinces humans we're hearing gods.

Then we wire that glitchy system directly into modern AI and ask the obvious question: what could possibly go wrong?

Stanford AI Index 2025 https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/
EU JRC - AI Watch 2025 https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/ai-watch_en"