Dr Aron Ping D'Souza
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Aron D'Souza (Objection): AI Fact-Checking & the Gawker Story
Dr Aron Ping D'Souza introduces Objection, a platform where anyone can pay as little as $2,000 for former FBI and CIA investigators plus AI to fact-check media stories line by line, with a public data room and journalist rebuttal. He recounts how, as a young Oxford law student, he proposed the proxy-litigation idea that led Peter Thiel to fund the Hulk Hogan case, which won a $141 million judgment and bankrupted Gawker. He cites declining trust in media (70% to 30% since 1970), argues transparent algorithms like Community Notes and prediction markets are emerging arbiters of truth, and calls for transparency from AI labs and platform feed algorithms.
Enhanced Games Update: Vegas Debut, $1.2B SPAC & World Records
D'Souza gives an update on the Enhanced Games, taking place Memorial Day weekend in Las Vegas, with athletes enhancing under medical supervision at a training camp in Abu Dhabi and world records already broken in training. He confirms the company is undergoing a SPAC combination on the New York Stock Exchange at a $1.2 billion valuation. He shares the founding story — a Julian Savulescu paper arguing for an enhanced Olympics and research showing many athletes dope but few are caught — and notes a 31-year-old Greek swimmer broke the 50m freestyle world record and was paid $1 million.