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AI Bias, Sex Robots & The Algorithms Radicalising Your Kids
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- Feb 19, 2026
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Summary
Win $2,000 in credits with the Day One Network — take our 2-minute audience survey before 30 June: dayone.fm/survey Episode Summary Tracey Spicer is one of Australia’s most respected journalists and the author of Man-Made: How the Bias of the Past Is Being Built into the Future. In this episode, Georgie sits down with Tracey for a sharp, funny, and occasionally jaw-dropping conversation about what happens when we treat AI like neutral math instead of what it really is: opinion written in code. They unpack why algorithmic bias is getting worse in the generative AI era, how recommendation engines can quietly radicalise people (from Andrew Tate pipelines to hyper-performative “tradwife” culture), and why “move fast” without guardrails is a dangerous blueprint. The discussion also goes into the weird and unsettling frontier of humanoid home robots, privacy risks in always-on devices, and what Tracey learned researching sex robots, including the disturbing ways consent is engineered out of the product. Plus: why Tracey’s favourite AI tool is Claude, what she thinks about Grok and the chaos machine of X, why we are not getting a four day work week anytime soon, and her case for “regulatory sandpits” to test AI safely before it hits the rest of the world. Time Stamps 01:10 – Tracey’s TEDx “The lady stripped bare” moment and why it still matters 04:45 – Beauty standards, AI filters, and why expectations on young women have intensified 08:20 – Man-Made and the epiphany that sparked Tracey’s AI obsession 11:10 – The AI arms race, speed, and why we are in the “seatbelt era” of tech 14:30 – Digital natives vs critical thinking: the hallucination blind spot 16:45 – Tracey’s AI stack: why Claude is her daily driver 19:05 – Humanoid home robots: convenience vs surveillance 21:55 – St…