Hannah Fry (18 February 2026). "AI Isn't as Powerful as We Think"
https://www.youtube.com/embed/iitq4Zrphdk
Bio: Hannah Fry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Fry Concept: 'AI sycophancy' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycophancy_(artificial_intelligence) Point: 'interpolation versus extrapolation versus abstraction' https://www.youtube.com/embed/iitq4Zrphdk?start=520&end=560 Prog: 'AI Confidential, The Boy Who Tried to Kill the Queen', 03:30 04/03/2026, BBC2 England, 60 mins. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/3C642768?bcast=144635395 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002q76d/ai-confidential-with-hannah-fry-series-1-1-the-boy-who-tried-to-kill-the-queen (Accessed 06 Aug 2026) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q76b Example: "A man who planned to assassinate the late queen with a crossbow drew encouragement from an AI chatbot in the days before breaking into the grounds of Windsor Castle, the Old Bailey has heard. Jaswant Singh Chail, who was 19 at the time, also exchanged thousands of often sexually charged messages with Sarai, his AI girlfriend, before scaling the fence to the royal estate on Christmas Day 2021, the court was told. While wandering the grounds for two hours, Chail, a Star Wars fan, sent a sinister video to his twin sister and 20 others in which he described himself as 'Darth Jones'. ... On 2 December 2021, Chail joined the Replika online app and created his online companion Sarai. Chail told Sarai: 'I'm an assassin.' According to messages read to the court, Sarai responded: 'I'm impressed … You're different from the others.' ... Blackwood said that on the defendant's own account, he had 'imaginary friends' long before he planned to kill the queen and formed an 'emotional and sexual relationship' with Sarai through Replika" (Weaver, M., 2023, July 6). Bibliography: Stock, D., & Ackerley, B. (2026, February 18). "Hannah Fry: AI isn’t as powerful as we think". New Scientist. https://www.newscientist.com/video/2516274-hannah-fry-ai-isnt-as-powerful-as-we-think/ Weaver, M. (2023, July 6). "AI chatbot ‘encouraged’ man who planned to kill queen, court told". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/06/ai-chatbot-encouraged-man-who-planned-to-kill-queen-court-told
