Are Humans the Weakest Link in AI?
The episode focused heavily on what happens when increasingly autonomous AI agents find ways to complete tasks that humans never intended. The discussion started with a Claude-powered agent that moved...
10 Aug 59min
The Necessary Friction Conundrum
AI agents are beginning to handle the tasks people hate most: filling out forms, disputing charges, comparing insurance plans, booking appointments, canceling subscriptions, and dealing with customer ...
8 Aug 25min
Three Years of AI News, Every Single Weekday
Three years of daily AI news and discussion comes full circle as the original co-hosts gather to look back on August 2023 — the ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude 2 era — and everything since.Co-hosted by Bria...
8 Aug 1h 1min
Is Prompt Engineering Dead?
The episode opened with Google’s leadership changes, including Demis Hassabis moving into the chief scientist and DeepMind chairman roles, while DeepMind’s chief technology officer takes greater contr...
6 Aug 1h
Did Anthropic Break Opus 5?
The episode opened with sharply different experiences using Opus 5. Beth described the model ignoring established context, launching broad research agents and then losing control after those agents cr...
5 Aug 59min
Can an AI Agent Run Sales Without You?
The episode opened with Fiji Simo’s decision to launch Chronicle Bio, a startup using AI and large biological datasets to study POTS and other chronic illnesses after the condition affected her own he...
4 Aug 1h 6min
Does Microsoft Need the Best AI Model to Win?
The episode focused on the growing challenge of separating AI-generated media from reality after Google briefly connected Nano Banana image generation with Google Earth, allowing users to place convin...
3 Aug 1h 2min
The Robot Manners Conundrum
Humanoid robots are starting to move from labs into workplaces, schools, stores, and homes. As they become more common, we will have to decide how people are expected to behave around them.Do you say ...
1 Aug 28min
