Bionic Bug Podcast

Hey everyone, welcome back to Bionic Bug podcast! You’re listening to episode 9. This is your host Natasha Bajema, fiction author, futurist, and national security expert. I’m recording this episode on June 17, 2018. I hope you didn’t miss my special episode on June 7 where I interviewed biohacker Josiah Zayner about genetic engineering, CRISPR, frogs and much more. You can see the episode as recorded LIVE on YouTube as well. Today, I’m going to discuss a few headlines and then get right into chapter 9 of Bionic Bug. If you’re enjoying the show, please leave a review on iTunes. You can also support my time and costs of producing in show for only a few dollars a month, please go to patreon.com- p a t r e o n / natashabajema Let’s talk tech. I have a few interesting headlines for you this week. “Artificial Intelligence to Weaponize Fake Video” The headline is from May 23 and comes from freebeacon.com. We live in an era of fake news. The line between fact and fiction has blurred, and political spi