Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested
Uncanny Valley is back! This week, senior writer Kate Knibbs joins Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger to discuss the two incidents that have been making noise in prediction markets: George Santos getting lifetime ban from Kalshi and a Google engineer’s Polymarket insider-trading case. Plus, reporters reverse-engineered Flock’s AI-powered person-search tool and spoke to experts about the accuracy of such technology, and the hosts unpack the online meltdown over how to talk about “rogue” AI agents.
Articles mentioned in this episode:
- George Santos Just Got Hit With Kalshi’s First-Ever Lifetime Ban
- Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling
- This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops
- What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack
- The Logical End Point of AI Job Interviews Is Two Bots Talking to Each Other
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