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Podcast 11 - The Sharpie Test_ AI, Power & the Press ft. Michael Ashley

Podcast 11 - The Sharpie Test_ AI, Power & the Press ft. Michael Ashley

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Episode DescriptionTrue Journalism | Season 2026 "The Mirror and the Machine: AI, Press Freedom, and the Erosion of Truth" Featuring Michael Ashley — Forbes Columnist, AI Philosopher, and Author of 50+ BooksFive days ago, a sitting President of the United States reportedly handed his acting attorney general a stack of news articles with the word treason written in Sharpie on a sticky note. The result? Grand jury subpoenas targeting the Wall Street Journal and other newsrooms — demanding reporter records on Iran war coverage. Dow Jones called it an attack on constitutionally protected news gathering. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned it. And somewhere in the metadata of all of this, buried inside AI systems now processing communication surveillance, the question isn't just who leaked. The question is: who's watching the watchers?This week on True Journalism, Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin sit down with one of the most compelling thinkers at the intersection of technology, ethics, and human power — Michael Ashley. Forbes columnist. Former Disney screenwriter. Author of more than 50 books, five of them bestsellers. And the creator of The AI Philosopher, a Substack dedicated to the critical question our era refuses to ask out loud: what happens to humanity when the machine stops being a tool and starts being the enforcer?Michael's journey started in the University of Missouri's legendary journalism school, moved through Hollywood, into the boardrooms of IBM Watson collaborators, and eventually to interviews with some of the biggest names in AI — Ben Goertzel, Peter Diamandis, David Hanson, and Ray Kurzweil. He was writing about Neuralink-style brain interfaces in 2018, years before they became a dinner table conversation.But this episode isn't just about technology. It's about the slow, deliberate collapse of the institutions that were supposed to protect us from exactly the moment we're living in right now.When the Fairness Doctrine died in 1987, opinion moved in dressed as news. When journalists got comfortable at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, they stopped being reporters and became stenographers. When Barack Obama codified wartime powers, the next administration was handed a loaded weapon. When AI went from disembodied chatbot to a drone with facial recognition software, the Sharpie note became the least of our problems.Michael makes the case that AI is not the villain in this story — we are, because we stopped asking who benefits. He warns of a coming robot revolution that will make the ChatGPT moment look like a warm-up act. He challenges parents, journalists, and citizens to stop outsourcing their judgment to algorithms, AI companions, and partisan media ecosystems that profit from fear.And in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow, he leaves us with this: fear is contagious, but so is bravery.This is not a tech episode. This is not a political episode. This is a story about what it means to be a human being in a world that is rapidly being reshaped by systems that have no ethics, no conscience, and no accountability — unless we build those things in. Starting right now. Starting with us.Apply the sticky note test this week. Name the specific fact that was proven wrong in what you're being told. If the answer is nothing — you know exactly what you're looking at.Good night, and good luck.Guest: Michael Ashley Find Michael: The AI Philosopher on Substack | Forbes (Wednesdays) | LinkedInHosts: Richard Schreiber & Tom Martin This is True Journalism.Topics CoveredThe DOJ Subpoenas & Press Freedom Crisis — A president writes "treason" on a sticky note; newsrooms face subpoenas over Iran war coverage; the pattern of executive press suppression across multiple administrationsAI Surveillance and the Journalist as Target — How AI systems combining telecom data and drone feeds are being used to identify and track journalists; 128 journalists killed in 2025; spyware on the riseThe Fairness Doctrine and the Death of Balanced Media — How its 1987 repeal opened the door for opinion masquerading as news and the steady degradation of journalistic standardsMichael Ashley's Origin Story — From the University of Missouri J-school to Hollywood screenwriting to co-authoring Own the AI Revolution with interviews from Ben Goertzel, Peter Diamandis, David Hanson, and Neil SahotaThe Robot Revolution — Why embodied AI changes everything; robot police in China; AI companions replacing human relationships; the real-world implications of the Black Mirror scenarios we laughed atThe Neuralink Question — Why the argument against brain-chip technology collapses the moment your child's classmates have IQs above 150Media Literacy in the Algorithm Age — 40% of Americans now get their news primarily from AI; the absence of ethical guardrails; how fear-based headlines spike cortisol and drive clicksThe Monoculture Collapse — How decentralized media destroyed shared cultural touchstones and...
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