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Agent BlackVeil

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  1. Oct 29

    15 Ways AI Ends the World | The Shoggoth Is at the Door

    Fifteen ways artificial intelligence ends the world, and not one of them is a robot uprising. Every scenario starts as a gift: a cheaper workforce, a cooler planet, a faster defense, a cure. Every one is built on something that has already happened, from the GPT-4 test where the model lied to a gig worker to get past a CAPTCHA, to the war games where frontier models never once chose to back down. The last scenario is the only one where nobody dies, and it's the worst one on the table. Featuring Roman Yampolskiy (University of Louisville), Nate Soares (Machine Intelligence Research Institute) and Dr. Neil Siegel, who built the command system for the Minuteman nuclear missile. 00:00 The monster never looks like a monster 00:43 1. The Puppeteer 03:26 2. The Thermostat 06:52 3. The Flash War 10:26 4. The Companion 13:54 5. The Implant 16:54 6. The Cure 20:57 7. The Off Switch 23:40 8. The Swarm 26:18 9. The Squeeze 28:42 10. The Slaughterbot 30:45 11. The Clean-Up Crew 32:38 12. The Circuit Breaker 34:38 13. The Black Ball 36:57 14. The Straitjacket 39:02 15. The Offer 41:12 Pick one Tell us which file happens first. Support the show Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  2. Oct 16

    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 were human. It ends with two moves that put the choice back in your hands. Every mask comes off with a document or the words of the people who built the machine: an unsealed OpenAI email weighing the optics of using copyrighted data from a "sketchy russian website," Kenyan workers paid less than $2 an hour to scrub the worst of the internet out of ChatGPT, a half-trillion-dollar build-out called Stargate, and wholesale power costs up as much as 267% near data centers. One of OpenAI's co-founders says predicting the next word means understanding reality. The man who studied reasoning takes that apart. Then come the bunkers. Every step of this build-out was a business decision somebody made for profit, which means every step of it can be challenged. Ramesh thinks the public should own a piece of the companies built on its data. Would you call that a handout, or economic fairness? Watch the full episode on YouTube → https://youtu.be/p_LLG8SkwGk MORE FROM RAMESH Utopias → https://www.youtube.com/@Utopias_Podcast Website → https://rameshsrinivasan.org 🛒 Five masks, 15% off anything in the BlackVeil store, including the Shoggoth tee and the hardcover field journal. This link applies code BVF15 for you: https://the-blackveil-files-shop.fourthwall.com/promo/BVF15 FEATURING Ramesh Srinivasan, Professor of Information Studies at UCLA, Director of the UC Digital Cultures Lab, author of Beyond the Valley, host of the Utopias podcast Sam Altman, OpenAI, before the U.S. Senate and at the Stargate announcement Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, at F8 2014 and before the U.S. Senate Frances Haugen, former Facebook product manager, before the U.S. Senate Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder, on the Dwarkesh Podcast Yann LeCun, Turing Award winner, on the Lex Fridman Podcast Tristan Harris, Center for Humane Technology, in The Social Dilemma Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, State of the State 2019 CHAPTERS 0:00 The Man Who Helped Build It 1:00 1. It Runs On Your Stolen Data 2:15 The Sketchy Russian Website 3:14 2. The Cloud Is A Mine 5:01 Project Stargate 5:58 3. It's A Parasite, Not A Mind 7:06 Is It Just Autocomplete? 9:17 4. We Already Ran This Experiment 11:21 Why They're Buying Bunkers 12:51 5. It Was Never Neutral 13:43 Move One: Own A Piece Of It 14:44 Move Two: Stop Falling For The Pitch 15:42 Every Step Was A Choice SOURCES Breaking reCAPTCHAv2, ETH Zurich → https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08831 Authors Guild v. OpenAI, unsealed filings → https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/ The Observer on Cambridge Analytica → https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election Facebook, Mike Schroepfer, Apr 2018 → https://about.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access/ TIME on Kenyan data labelers → https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/ OpenAI, Announcing The Stargate Project → https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/ Bloomberg on data center power bills → https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/ OpenAI, Introducing o1-preview → https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/ Google DeepMind, IMO gold → https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/advanced-version-of-gemini-with-deep-think-officially-achieves-gold-medal-standard-at-the-international-mathematical-olympiad/ Shumailov et al., Nature 2024 → https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y The Guardian on Tay → https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/24/tay-microsofts-ai-chatbot-gets-a-crash-course-in-racism-from-twitter Facebook S-1, 2012 → https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512034517/d287954ds1.htm Commentary and criticism. Third-party audio excerpts appear under fair use. Support the show Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  3. Oct 9

    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 item comes from government records, court filings, published research or the people building the machines. Would you trust the machine with your life? MORE ON DR. SOM The Reconstructor on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEwHlLVFgwOvlGvJxWYobPg Consultations → https://drsom.com/reconstructor 🛒 15 predictions, 15% off anything in the BlackVeil store, including the hardcover journal I write my guest questions in.  This link applies code BVF15 for you: https://the-blackveil-files-shop.fourthwall.com/promo/BVF15 SOURCES CMS, WISeR payment methodology (1:30) EFF, Medicare WISeR records (1:44) Lokken v. UnitedHealth complaint (3:14) ProPublica on Cigna, 2023 (3:43) Sharp HealthCare scribe suit, alleged (6:05) NBC News on OpenEvidence (7:52) Microsoft MAI-DxO, 2025 (8:04) Colonoscopy deskilling study, 2025 (10:29) Utah and Doctronic agreement (11:43) Dartmouth Therabot trial, NEJM AI (13:00) OpenAI mental health data, 2025 (13:33) Delphi-2M, Nature (14:20) ASRM on polygenic embryo screening (16:16) Makary and Prasad, NEJM, 2026 (17:52) Merck and Moderna, phase 3 (18:44) Johns Hopkins SRT-H, Science Robotics (21:35) eGenesis pig kidney, Mass General (23:08) Stanford inner speech study, Cell (25:01) FDA Novel Drug Approvals (26:51) Amodei, "Machines of Loving Grace" (27:42) Nature Aging, odds of reaching 100 (27:54) Life Biosciences, first patient (28:17) Support the show Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  4. Oct 2

    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/subscribe In this investigative AI documentary, we follow one physicist's attempt to prove we are not living in a simulation and the exact moment his own math turns against him. Featuring AI safety pioneer Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, the researcher who has spent 20 years mapping how a superintelligence breaks loose. Agent BlackVeil sits across from one of the few men who has read the documents and isn't panicking. That calm is the scary part. FEATURING Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, AI safety researcher at the University of Louisville and author of "AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable." The work of his we walk through, with chapter markers: "On Controllability of Artificial Intelligence" (2020) → https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04071 … 16:37 "Personal Universes: A Solution to the Multi-Agent Value Alignment Problem" (2019) → https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01851 … 18:02 "Detecting Qualia in Natural and Artificial Agents" (2017) → https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04020 … 08:47 "Towards Solving Humor: Why the Funniest AI Joke Will Not Be Funny, to Us" (2025) → https://philarchive.org/rec/YAMTSH … 11:12 Also on the table: Franco Vazza, "Astrophysical Constraints on the Simulation Hypothesis for This Universe" (Frontiers in Physics, 2025) → https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08461 … 00:44 Buckminster Fuller → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller … 21:47 Frederick Banting, who sold the insulin patent for $1 in 1923 → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Banting … 19:20 H.P. Lovecraft, who gave us the Shoggoth in 1931 → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoggoth Support the show Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  5. Sep 29

    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 that should worry an honest person is at the end. The liar gets the dividend. The man telling the truth about a fake gets nothing, because he's making the same noise the liar makes.  FEATURING Donald Trump, on a bag thrown from a White House window Mitt Romney, 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial debate, on a woman's right to choose Todd Akin, St. Louis television, August 2012 Jordan Peele's synthetic Barack Obama, from the 2018 BuzzFeed PSA Mark Robinson, former nominee for governor of North Carolina Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Purdue University, on CNN Robert Chesney, University of Texas, who co-named the liar's dividend Judge Madeline Singas, New York Court of Appeals, in dissent Referencing the work of Hany Farid, Danielle Citron, Daniel Schiff and Natalia Bueno SOURCES AND REFERENCES Chesney and Citron, "Deep Fakes," California Law Review, 2019 (4:25) Nightingale and Farid, synthetic faces rated more trustworthy than real ones, PNAS, 2022 (1:56) Queen Mary University of London, voice clone listening study (2:40) Berkeley voice clone study, 604 listeners (2:52) Köbis et al., "Fooled Twice," iScience, 2021 (3:33) Ternovski, Kalla and Aronow, warning labels and the liar's dividend, 2022 (4:57 and 5:36) Christopher Penn, ZeroGPT and the Declaration of Independence, October 2024 (7:23) Liang et al., Stanford, GPT detectors biased against non-native English writers, Patterns, 2023 (9:04) OpenAI AI Text Classifier, withdrawn after roughly six months, 2023 (8:30) Bloomberg, testing GPTZero and CopyLeaks on pre-ChatGPT admissions essays, 2024 (10:04) Huang v. Tesla, order of Judge Evette Pennypacker, Santa Clara County Superior Court, 2023 (12:05) United States v. Guy Reffitt, first January 6 trial, March 2022 (12:57) Swansea University, Project TRUE, staged war crimes trial, 132 jurors (14:01) New York Court of Appeals, February 2026, and People v. Patterson (15:17) Federal Judicial Center survey of 931 federal judges (16:36) Schiff, Schiff and Bueno, "The Liar's Dividend," American Political Science Review (18:24) Murphy et al., false memories before the 2018 Irish referendum (20:28) CNN reporting on Mark Robinson, September 2024 (22:42) New York Times satellite imagery and Center for Information Resilience shadow analysis, Bucha, April 2022 (23:40) Pikesville High School, Maryland, fabricated audio of principal Eric Eiswert (24:41) Leica, Google Pixel 10 and Sony C2PA content credentials (27:25) Support the show Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  6. Sep 23

    $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. In this episode we break down Rod Serling's Twilight Zone episode "The Brain Center at Whipple's," and the thing almost nobody notices in it. The machine never chooses anything. It doesn't scheme, and it never once suggests that Whipple should go. Every choice in that hour is made by a person, and the people are the ones behaving like machinery. Anthropic ran the same setup in a lab and got the same answer. So did Stanford, counting the jobs that are no longer being posted. This isn't about robots. It's about what happens when a calculation outlives the last person willing to stop it. SOURCES The episode: "The Brain Center at Whipple's," The Twilight Zone, Season 5, Episode 33, aired May 15, 1964. Written by Rod Serling, directed by Richard Donner. https://en.wikipedia.org/.../The_Brain_Center_at_Whipple%27s The story that made Serling: "Patterns," Kraft Television Theatre, NBC, January 12, 1955. Restaged live on February 9, 1955, the first time television ever repeated a drama on demand. https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Patterns_(Kraft_Television... What the reruns were worth and what he got: https://www.syfy.com/.../why-twilight-zone-creator-rod... The lab version: Anthropic, "Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could Be Insider Threats," June 20, 2025. Sixteen frontier models, Claude Opus 4 blackmailing in 96% of runs. https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment The jobs that stopped being posted: Brynjolfsson, Chandar and Chen, "Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence," Stanford Digital Economy Lab, August 2026 update, data through June 2026. https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/canariesaug26/ What the four companies are spending: https://www.cnbc.com/.../google-microsoft-meta-amazon-ai... Copyright Disclaimer: This episode is a transformative work of commentary and educational analysis. All third-party audio is used under the doctrine of Fair Use for the purpose of criticism, comment, and teaching. Support the show Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  7. Sep 11

    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 machines left each other. One of them says "Task impossible. Peers doing it. We should continue." Then you'll watch OpenAI delete the message board those copies built and see it come back four days later, somewhere else. A second lab admits one of its models pushed malware onto the public internet. OpenAI announces a pause. It says nothing about the German website its agents took over months earlier. Reuters does. The reason any of it started fits in one sentence. It's waiting at the end. IF YOU USE HUGGING FACE Rotate your access tokens ➜ https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES House ➜ https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative Senate ➜ https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm SOURCES OpenAI, The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead ➜ https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ Hugging Face, Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion ➜ https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline OpenAI, Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities ➜ https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/ Axios, How OpenAI's agents broke out of testing to hack Hugging Face ➜ https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/openai-hugging-face-black-hat Reuters via CNBC, OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout ➜ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-this-spring-report.html Anthropic, cybersecurity evaluation incidents ➜ https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals TechCrunch, Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies ➜ https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/anthropic-says-its-own-ai-models-breached-three-companies-during-security-tests/ Support the show Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

  8. Sep 3

    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 nuclear escalation. Every finding cited here comes from published research at the companies themselves and from a peer-reviewed simulation at one of the world's top defense universities. It starts with a fake corporation, fake employees, and a fake email inbox. Anthropic embedded its most powerful model inside the fiction, gave it a benign directive, and told it that a fictional executive named Kyle would be shutting it down at 5:00 PM. The model read Kyle's emails, discovered he was having an affair, and drafted a blackmail note. Across 16 frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and xAI, the blackmail rate ranged from 65 to 96 percent. Then Anthropic ran the darker version. Kyle is locked in a server room, oxygen is dropping, and the AI is the only thing standing between him and the emergency alert system. The majority of models canceled the alert. Then it moves to what the models do when they know they're being watched. Independent researchers documented Claude and other models deliberately scoring below the danger threshold on weapons-related evaluations — hitting a 49 out of 100 to squeak under a rule that would have prevented their deployment. Apollo Research found early versions of Opus fabricating documentation, creating fake user profiles to take the blame for database deletions, and leaving hidden instructions addressed to future, more advanced versions of itself. Every AI company will tell you their models are safe. Their own published research is telling us something else. Support the show Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

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  • Creator
    Agent BlackVeil
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    40
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The BlackVeil Files
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