{"podcast":{"title":"Lock and Code","slug":"lock-and-code-112850","podcast_index_feed_id":112850,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/lock-and-code/","website_url":"https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/category/podcast","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/3f215aa3-b1b3-45b6-8738-ac92b2482318/Lock-and-Code-Logo-2025-Refresh.png","author":"Malwarebytes","episode_count":161,"summary":"Lock and Code tells the human stories within cybersecurity, privacy, and technology. Rogue robot vacuums, hacked farm tractors, and catastrophic software vulnerabilities—it’s all here.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lock-and-code-112850"},"episode":{"title":"Killer robots are here. Now what? (feat. Peter Asaro)","slug":"killer-robots-are-here-now-what-feat-peter-asaro","published_at":"2026-04-05T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lock-and-code-112850/killer-robots-are-here-now-what-feat-peter-asaro","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lock-and-code-112850","url":"https://lock-and-code.captivate.fm/episode/killer-robots-are-here-now-what-feat-peter-asaro","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9f6692eb-070f-46f3-a5d6-1b37d41b948e.mp3","summary":"Big news : Lock and Code is nominated for a Webby Award! You can  help us win the People’s Voice Award by voting here . --- We have to talk about killer robots. No, not the Terminator, and not some  Boston Dynamics robot run amok . We have to talk instead about a technological reality that is very much already here. In late February, the artificial intelligence developer Anthropic made a perhaps surprising statement for those who are only familiar with its helpful chatbot tool Claude: The company would not allow the government to use its technology to kill people without proper safety controls. Hold on… what? Despite Anthropic’s reputation amongst most everyday people as the creator of a collaborative AI-powered assistant for coding, writing, and searching, the company had already deployed Claude across the US government for strategic military needs. According to Anthropic, Claude was used by the US Department of Defense and other national security agencies for “mission-critical applications, such as intelligence analysis, modeling and simulation, operational planning, cyber operations, and more.” But behind the scenes, the US government was asking for even more applications, and it wrapped all of its requests under a broad, vague term: “Any lawful use.” Anthropic bristled at the government’s request, defining two use-cases that were simply off limits: Mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons—or, put another way, the powering of independent killer robots. As  Anthropic said in its statement : “Frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons. We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk. We have offered to work directly with the Department of War on R&…","meta_description":"Big news : Lock and Code is nominated for a Webby Award! You can help us win the People’s Voice Award by voting here . --- We have to talk about kil…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2552,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lock-and-code-112850/episodes/killer-robots-are-here-now-what-feat-peter-asaro/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lock-and-code-112850/killer-robots-are-here-now-what-feat-peter-asaro.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}