Episode 13 · 2 August 2025 · 25 min
Owls, LMS Overlords & the Home grown Swiss Curveball – Adjunct Intelligence Ep. 13
Brace yourself: a harmless-looking string of numbers taught a brand-new AI to love owls—without ever mentioning feathers. If quirky subliminal learning can slip past the lab coats, what else is creeping into our lecture theatres? This week on Adjunct Intelligence, we dissect three tectonic shifts: Anthropic’s spooky “owl effect,” China’s sprint from taboo to classroom default, and Switzerland’s pl