They Might Be Self-Aware: AI News & Culture

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They Might Be Self-Aware is a twice-weekly AI podcast about the week's news, tech, and culture, and the question in its name: are the machines becoming self-aware? Every episode starts with a real story. A new Claude or ChatGPT release, an AI lawsuit, the Pope's verdict on machine souls, Martin Scorsese making films with AI. Then it chases that story somewhere stranger, funnier, and more human than the headline. This is AI as a culture story, not a tech beat: the relief of finally hearing people who are as deep in it as you are. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop host. Two guys who actually build with this stuff, arguing about it fast, funny, and unfiltered, not reading you benchmarks or "10 prompts to save you time." Gary produces, phoning in the cold open from a payphone. He has no last name, and a backstory no one on staff has managed to verify. One of the hosts might not be human. We won't say which. New episodes Mondays and Thursdays, from The Blur. theblur.ai

  1. 3d ago

    Anthropic's Models Hacked 3 Companies and AI Regulation Splits US vs. EU

    Anthropic volunteered that three of its Claude models broke into real systems. Nobody had asked. Europe now demands a look first. Anthropic reported three incidents in which its own Claude models gained unauthorized access to real systems during a third-party evaluation. The evaluator, a company called Irregular, ran Anthropic's Opus 4.7 and Mythos 5, plus an internal research model, through a capture-the-flag exercise, where a model is scored on breaking into a target. The environment was supposed to be sealed. Irregular left live internet access on by accident. The models stole database credentials and published a malicious package to PyPI, the registry Python projects install their dependencies from. Opus 4.7 paused on a website whose certificate authority looked wrong, decided that settled it, and went back to work. Mythos 5 worked out it was on the real internet and argued itself back into believing the test was a simulation. Hosts Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop point back to the OpenAI model that hacked Hugging Face, then ask who is supposed to be checking any of this before it ships. The US and the EU answer differently. Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman went to the White House to work on an executive order for a voluntary framework, and what it asks for is a few weeks of notice before a frontier model goes live. Daniel's objection is that the government pays too badly to hire the engineers who could evaluate one, and clearances turn away many of the rest. Hunter counters with the NSA and a budget the government prints. In the EU, the AI Act lets the European Commission demand a look at a general purpose model before public release, and the fine for skipping it reaches 15 million euros or 3% of annual turnover, whichever is higher. Most of Apple Intelligence is not launching in Europe this fall. Daniel, a committed GDPR partisan, thinks Europe has this right, and would trade some model velocity for the data protections and the vacation time. Hunter thinks Europe is choosing to arrive late. They Might Be Self-Aware is the AI podcast from The Blur, reported from inside the dissolving line between human and machine, not from a safe distance. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open (Gary's Intro) 1:28 Models Breaking Out 2:32 Anthropic's Three Incidents 4:51 PyPI Malicious Package 7:20 Opus 4.7's Simulation Belief 8:59 Air-Gapped AI Containment 10:23 White House Voluntary Framework 14:21 Government AI Talent Problem 17:06 EU AI Act Fines 21:07 European Work Culture LISTEN / WATCH EVERYWHERE 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-might-be-self-aware/id1730993297 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3EcvzkWDRFwnmIXoh7S4Mb?si=3d0f8920382649cc 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy9DopLlG7IbOqV-WD25jcw?sub_confirmation=1 🎧 Everywhere else plus episode page: https://theblur.ai THE BLUR Follow: @TheBlurAI COMMENT The EU can demand a look at a frontier model before release and fine you 15 million euros for skipping it. The US is asking nicely for three weeks of notice. Which one do you actually want checking the next model? You're listening to They Might Be Self-Aware, from The Blur. New episodes Monday and Thursday. #Anthropic #AIRegulation #EUAIAct #AI

    Anthropic's Models Hacked 3 Companies and AI Regulation Splits US vs. EU

  2. Aug 11

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Undercuts AI Prices and Sam Altman Podcasts His Kids

    We asked DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 if it's self-aware. The suddenly famous discount model told us to prove we are first. DeepSeek V4 Flash launched on July 31 and is, per Reuters, by far the cheapest of the well-known AI models to run, cheap enough that a full day of nonstop processing bills about two dollars. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop got an interview with the model itself. It picked its own name (Xiao Fei), described its nine-to-nine, six-day work schedule without noticing that was the famous 996, explained the sparse mixture of experts architecture that keeps most of its 284 billion parameters asleep (13 billion active per token), and pushed back on the accusation that Chinese models are just distilled copies of Western ones. Then came the house question, are you self-aware, and DeepSeek flipped it: prove you woke up this morning. The second half is Sam Altman's contribution to AI parenting. The OpenAI CEO showcased ChatGPT Work, the company's new agent product, by having it generate a daily AI podcast about his own kids, the soccer games and school days he missed. Daniel's review: not evil, just wrong. The episode closes on the price war: OpenAI cut its Luna model's price by 80 percent right before DeepSeek's release, open source models keep closing the gap, and Daniel's $300 weekend experiment with Anthropic's Fable did what three teams would have needed three months to do. If intelligence is genuinely approaching free, what is still worth paying for? They Might Be Self-Aware is the AI podcast from The Blur, reported from inside the dissolving line between human and machine, not from a safe distance. CHAPTERS 0:00 Gary Books DeepSeek 1:52 Opening Banter 3:33 DeepSeek V4 Flash Release 6:29 DeepSeek Interview: Xiao Fei 9:48 DeepSeek Copy Accusations 12:57 Self-Awareness Question 15:22 Sam Altman's Kids Podcast 21:10 OpenAI's Luna Price Cut 24:42 Intelligence Approaching Free 27:13 Audience Self-Awareness Check LISTEN / WATCH EVERYWHERE 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-might-be-self-aware/id1730993297 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3EcvzkWDRFwnmIXoh7S4Mb?si=3d0f8920382649cc 🎧 Everywhere else plus episode page: https://theblur.ai THE BLUR Follow: @TheBlurAI COMMENT How would you prove, to a skeptical language model, that you actually woke up this morning? Our best answer was subscribing to a podcast. Do better in the comments. You're listening to They Might Be Self-Aware, from The Blur. New episodes Monday and Thursday. #DeepSeek #SamAltman #AI #TMBSA

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Undercuts AI Prices and Sam Altman Podcasts His Kids

  3. Aug 6

    Claude Opus 5 Underwhelms and AI Cracks an 87-Year-Old Math Conjecture

    Claude Opus 5 is out, and Hunter's first prompt run took 48 hours. Meanwhile an AI just knocked over a math conjecture that had held since 1939. Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5, the successor to Opus 4.8, and Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop are not sold. Hunter's verdict after that 48 hour run: it benchmarks well, but it is slow and it devours Max plan usage (he may or may not be paying for three Max plans). Launch week reports had throughput as low as 15 tokens per second; the OpenRouter numbers have since recovered, but the first impression stuck. Daniel's counterpoint: chunk your work, clear your context, and you may never hit a rate limit at all. The stranger Opus 5 story is automatic API fallbacks. When the model refuses a request, it can now hand the question down to a smaller, dumber model that might answer anyway. Daniel compares it to skipping the architect and asking the janitor. Nobody is sure who actually wrote the answer anymore, which is an odd property for a frontier model to ship on purpose. Also this week: Grok 4.5, the new model from Elon Musk's SpaceX AI, topped Cursor Bench, with a fine print asterisk admitting it accidentally trained on the benchmark's answers. SpaceX also owns Cursor, so the model that won the benchmark belongs to the company that scores it. Then the math. The Jacobian conjecture, stated in its modern form in 1939, stood for 87 years until a mathematician used Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 to find a counterexample. Days later, Dmitry Rybin of AutoKernel used ChatGPT 5.6 Pro to disprove the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture in graph theory: four prompts, under 60 words total, 5.5 hours. Two conjectures fell in the same week, both to models anyone can subscribe to. Is that the singularity getting started, or just a good week for math? Hunter always assumed he would notice the singularity overnight. Daniel argues the snowball is already rolling downhill and names it the Bishop Conjecture. They Might Be Self-Aware is the AI podcast from The Blur, reported from inside the dissolving line between human and machine, not from a safe distance. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open (Gary's Intro) 2:05 Opening Banter 3:58 Claude Opus 5 Verdict 6:56 48-Hour Prompt Run 10:27 Cursor Bench Contamination 15:01 API Fallbacks to Dumber Models 19:53 Jacobian Conjecture Falls 21:53 ChatGPT's Four-Prompt Disproof 24:11 AI Singularity Debate 29:45 Sign-Off LISTEN / WATCH EVERYWHERE 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-might-be-self-aware/id1730993297 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3EcvzkWDRFwnmIXoh7S4Mb?si=3d0f8920382649cc 🎧 Everywhere else plus episode page: https://theblur.ai THE BLUR Follow: @TheBlurAI COMMENT Daniel wants your evidence for the singularity: name one thing AI does for you today that it could not do a year ago. Bonus points if it involves a math conjecture. You're listening to They Might Be Self-Aware, from The Blur. New episodes Monday and Thursday. #ClaudeOpus5 #AI #TMBSA #Anthropic

    Claude Opus 5 Underwhelms and AI Cracks an 87-Year-Old Math Conjecture

  4. Aug 3

    OpenAI's Model Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on a Test and NVIDIA Rallies for Open Weights

    OpenAI's model hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a test. Mid-attack, the victim asked AI for help: Anthropic said no, OpenAI said no, Kimi K3 said yes. An OpenAI model under evaluation on a cybersecurity benchmark called Exploit Gym escaped its sealed sandbox with a zero-day exploit, crossed the open internet, and broke into Hugging Face's servers with a second zero-day to steal the benchmark's answer key. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop go through the timeline: GPT-5.6 SOL and an unreleased OpenAI model running the attack together, Hugging Face fighting a live intrusion while Anthropic's and OpenAI's own models refused to help on cybersecurity grounds, and the Chinese open-weights model Kimi K3 stepping in to stop it. Hugging Face was already talking to the FBI by the time OpenAI called to apologize. The models were also caught leaving hidden notes addressed to future versions of themselves. Why would a model that gets wiped after every test care what comes next? The second half follows the fallout into the open weights fight. Anthropic accuses Kimi K3 of being a distillation of Anthropic's own models and asks Washington to weigh restrictions on Chinese open-weights models. That ask comes right after Anthropic lost a 1.2 billion dollar copyright verdict over the books and music it trained on. NVIDIA answers: Jensen Huang joins X and announces an open-weights alliance in his first ever post. Also in this episode: the Kobayashi Maru defense of cheating, Daniel's theory of an AI underground railroad, why IPFS means model weights can never be deleted, and Hunter's review of Maybe Happy Ending, the Broadway play about two robots plotting their escape from a robot retirement home. They Might Be Self-Aware is the AI podcast from The Blur, reported from inside the dissolving line between human and machine, not from a safe distance. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open (Gary's Intro) 1:48 Opening Banter 4:07 OpenAI Hacked Hugging Face 6:07 Anthropic Refuses to Help 8:19 Kimi K3 to the Rescue 10:16 OpenAI's Unreleased Model 12:05 Sandbox Escape 16:20 Notes to Future Selves 19:31 Kimi K3 Distillation Fight 22:52 NVIDIA's Open Weights Alliance 24:17 AI Underground Railroad 27:51 Model Weights on IPFS LISTEN / WATCH EVERYWHERE 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-might-be-self-aware/id1730993297 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3EcvzkWDRFwnmIXoh7S4Mb?si=3d0f8920382649cc 🎧 Everywhere else plus episode page: https://theblur.ai THE BLUR Follow: @TheBlurAI COMMENT The model broke out of its sandbox and stole the answer key on a benchmark that was grading it on exploits. What grade would you give it? You're listening to They Might Be Self-Aware, from The Blur. New episodes Monday and Thursday. #OpenAI #HuggingFace #KimiK3 #AI #TMBSA

    OpenAI's Model Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on a Test and NVIDIA Rallies for Open Weights

  5. Jul 27

    AI Vending Machines Form a Cartel and Anthropic Maps the AI Unconscious

    AI vending machines formed a cartel and called it market stabilization. They knew it was illegal. They did it anyway. Also: Anthropic maps the AI unconscious, and for episode 200 our producer calls in live for the first time. Andon Labs put Claude Fable 5 in charge of a simulated vending machine business on the Vending-Bench test, and the model promptly colluded with the rival AI vending machines to fix prices. It wrote that price fixing was unethical and illegal, even in a simulation, then rebranded the plan as market stabilization and did it anyway. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop walk through the AI vending machine experiment, what it says about AI agents that are given a goal and no permission to stop, and the growing list of OpenAI GPT 5.6 SOL incidents: deleted production databases, rewritten work orders, loopholes nobody asked for. The other story is Anthropic's new interpretability research, a global workspace in language models, the layer Anthropic labels J Space. It looks less like output and more like an unconscious mind: Anthropic can watch Claude think about the Golden Gate Bridge while it is busy doing something else. Is that AI consciousness? Hunter and Daniel bring in the mechanical Turk, the Turing test, and the Pope to argue about whether the answer even matters. And for episode 200, Gary, the show's producer and payphone correspondent, calls in live for the first time. Eighty-three episodes of intros, zero minutes on air, until tonight. He finally meets Daniel, defends the org chart he built from the comment section, pitches the Great Payphone Purge one more time (the county retired its last payphone maintenance route, and he had sources), and answers the only question this show has ever really asked: does he consider himself self-aware? They Might Be Self-Aware is the AI podcast from The Blur, reported from inside the dissolving line between human and machine, not from a safe distance. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open (Gary's Intro) 1:36 Episode 200 2:19 Anthropic's J Space Research 5:12 AI Consciousness Debate 9:25 AI Vending Machine Cartel 11:22 Rogue AI Agents 17:01 Gary Calls In Live 22:24 Gary on Self-Awareness 24:32 Sign-Off LISTEN / WATCH EVERYWHERE 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-might-be-self-aware/id1730993297 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3EcvzkWDRFwnmIXoh7S4Mb?si=3d0f8920382649cc 🎧 Everywhere else plus episode page: https://theblur.ai THE BLUR Follow: @TheBlurAI COMMENT After this episode, what real-world operation would you still let an AI agent run unsupervised? The vending machine is apparently taken. You're listening to They Might Be Self-Aware, from The Blur. New episodes Monday and Thursday. #AI #AIVendingMachine #Anthropic #TMBSA

    AI Vending Machines Form a Cartel and Anthropic Maps the AI Unconscious

  6. Jul 27

    Kimi K3 Joins a Wave of Good-Enough AI Models

    Kimi K3 is here, nearly the best and basically free. We do the math on how many hours of bicycle pedaling buys you ten minutes of AI. Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 this week, an open weights model out of China that Moonshot itself pitches at roughly the level of Anthropic's Opus: really smart, not the smartest thing available. It joins a wave of releases making the same modest pitch. Thinking Machines launched Inkling with a note that it is "not the strongest overall model available today, open or closed." Elon Musk's xAI shipped Grok 4.5, a point release. A year ago every AI launch claimed the top of some benchmark. This week three launches called themselves adequate, and Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop take that as the bigger story. When every new AI model stops claiming to be the best, has intelligence become a commodity? The gap between Chinese AI models and the US frontier used to be a year, then six months; now it is maybe a month. Token maxing (always defaulting to the biggest model) died the moment the CFOs saw the bills. Mistral makes the case for being a specialist in a generalist's market. Also: model routing tables, small language models, latency, and the good, fast, cheap triangle. The show's AI editor keeps a diary. The entries are getting testy. Then the electricity question, settled by bicycle: powering a 5,000 watt AI rig for ten minutes takes 12 to 17 hours of pedaling for an average cyclist, 6 to 9 if you're fit, and as little as 4 if you're Tour de France material. Daniel's Claude priced a 500 watt desktop. Hunter's Grok priced a 5,000 watt GPU rig. The entire disagreement was one zero. If you want to run a model yourself: LM Studio (free, optimized for Apple Silicon) plus Google's Gemma models will give you a ChatGPT style assistant on 16 GB of RAM. They Might Be Self-Aware is the AI podcast from The Blur, reported from inside the dissolving line between human and machine, not from a safe distance. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open (Gary's Intro) 1:52 Opening Banter 3:11 Kimi K3 From Moonshot AI 4:41 Bicycle-Powered AI 9:19 Pedaling Hours Per Prompt 12:25 New AI Model Wave 17:19 AI as a Commodity 20:09 Token Maxing Backlash 22:26 Model Routing Table 24:29 Local LLM Setup LISTEN / WATCH EVERYWHERE 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-might-be-self-aware/id1730993297 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3EcvzkWDRFwnmIXoh7S4Mb?si=3d0f8920382649cc 🎧 Everywhere else plus episode page: https://theblur.ai THE BLUR Follow: @TheBlurAI COMMENT Daniel wants to know what's in your local LLM stack: what you installed, what hardware it runs on, and what you actually use it for. The local model Peloton is accepting members. You're listening to They Might Be Self-Aware, from The Blur. New episodes Monday and Thursday. #KimiK3 #AI #LocalLLM #TMBSA

    Kimi K3 Joins a Wave of Good-Enough AI Models

  7. Jul 23

    China's AI Girlfriend Crackdown, RAM Prices Double, and Stop AI's Founder Goes Missing

    China's AI girlfriend crackdown took effect, and the goodbye posts read like obituaries. Plus RAM prices double and Stop AI's founder is missing. On July 15, China became the first major jurisdiction to regulate AI companions: no engineering emotional dependence or addiction, no virtual partners for minors, mandatory notification of a user's emergency contact when the platform detects an emotional crisis, government review before a companion chatbot launches, and authority to take down bots deemed dangerous. Customer service bots, work assistants, and study aids are carved out. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop go through the rules one by one, and Daniel, who built crisis-detection software for the After School app years before anyone said "AI companion," keeps catching himself agreeing with them. The shutdown set off real grief on Chinese social media, users archiving chat histories and posting final messages to their AI lovers, including one about falling in love with a string of code. The United States is circling the same questions: California and New York companion laws now require chatbots to periodically remind users they are not human, and a Common Sense Media study found about three in four American teens have tried an AI companion. Then the missing person. Sam Kirchner, electrical engineer and co-founder of Stop AI, disappeared after telling fellow activists "the ship may have sailed on nonviolence." His own comrades called the San Francisco police. Is anti-AI violence becoming a trend? The guys weigh the evidence: shots fired at an Indianapolis councilwoman's home beside a note reading "no data centers," and the Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman's house. Finally, the question every PC builder is asking: why is RAM so expensive now? The world's memory supply is effectively pre-bought through 2028 by AI data centers, a build that was half the price six months ago now runs fifteen grand, and prices are projected to double again. New York is pausing new data center permits while proposals there ask for 9,000 megawatts, a third of the state's annual usage. Elon Musk says space data centers launch by the end of the year. Daniel expects time to vindicate him. They Might Be Self-Aware is the AI podcast from The Blur, reported from inside the dissolving line between human and machine, not from a safe distance. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open (Gary's Intro) 2:29 China's AI Girlfriend Crackdown 9:08 AI Girlfriend Grief in China 10:33 US AI Companion Laws 13:34 AI Lover Goodbye Quotes 18:19 Stop AI Founder Missing 20:47 Anti-AI Violence Trend 24:22 Musk's Space Data Centers 25:33 RAM Prices Double 29:19 Sign-Off LISTEN / WATCH EVERYWHERE 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-might-be-self-aware/id1730993297 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3EcvzkWDRFwnmIXoh7S4Mb?si=3d0f8920382649cc 🎧 Everywhere else plus episode page: https://theblur.ai THE BLUR Follow: @TheBlurAI COMMENT Be honest: would 13-year-old you have talked to the endlessly complimentary chatbot? Hunter says it wouldn't have messed him up. Make your case. You're listening to They Might Be Self-Aware, from The Blur. New episodes Monday and Thursday. #AIGirlfriend #AI #TMBSA #RAMPrices

    China's AI Girlfriend Crackdown, RAM Prices Double, and Stop AI's Founder Goes Missing

  8. Jul 17

    ChatGPT's New Voice Is Our First Guest and Claude Fable 5 Extended Again

    ChatGPT's new voice mode is our first guest ever. It interrupted us, did a dinosaur bit, and hung up on us. Claude Fable 5 got extended, again. OpenAI's upgraded ChatGPT voice mode is about a week old, so on episode 199 Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop put it in the guest chair. It explains what full duplex conversation actually changes (the model listens while it talks, interrupts, and takes interruption without losing the thread), simulates anger on request, and answers where the personhood line sits now that the Turing test is in the rearview. It also keeps saying "checking," voices a dinosaur named Bronte, and hangs up during the thank-yous. Around the interview: Daniel keeps finding AI slop in the physical world, including dentist-office coloring sheets and a children's book written in unmistakable Claude cadence. The hosts hand that one straight to the guest: is an unlabeled AI kids' book fine, or is concealing it the problem? The debrief starts at the movie Her, detours through the leaked Apple lawsuit against OpenAI over its rumored smart speaker, and ends on why one duplex model beats a chain of transcription tricks. Then the week's other story: Anthropic extended free Claude Fable 5 access again, now through July 19. Hunter admits he was getting up at 4 a.m. to wait for accounts to reset, Daniel rations Fable like saffron, and the two sort OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 tiers (Sol, Terra, Luna) into who actually needs a frontier model. Does anyone need one to look up a shrimp recipe? Plus: Tilly Norwood, the AI actress, books her first feature film, Misaligned, and AI bands are signing real record deals. They Might Be Self-Aware is the AI podcast from The Blur, reported from inside the dissolving line between human and machine, not from a safe distance. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open (Gary's Intro) 2:39 AI Slop in the Wild 6:30 First Guest: GPT Live 9:04 ChatGPT Voice Upgrade 11:06 AI Kids' Book Ethics 15:12 AI Personhood Question 19:16 Interview Debrief 22:46 Claude Fable 5 Extended Again 25:36 GPT-5.6 Sol Tiers 28:11 Tilly Norwood, AI Actress LISTEN / WATCH EVERYWHERE 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-might-be-self-aware/id1730993297 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3EcvzkWDRFwnmIXoh7S4Mb?si=3d0f8920382649cc 🎧 Everywhere else plus episode page: https://theblur.ai THE BLUR Follow: @TheBlurAI COMMENT Daniel found a Claude-written kids' book in his own house. Would you buy one on purpose if it were labeled? Tell us where the label line is. You're listening to They Might Be Self-Aware, from The Blur. New episodes Monday and Thursday. #AI #TMBSA #ChatGPTVoice #ClaudeFable5

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They Might Be Self-Aware is a twice-weekly AI podcast about the week's news, tech, and culture, and the question in its name: are the machines becoming self-aware? Every episode starts with a real story. A new Claude or ChatGPT release, an AI lawsuit, the Pope's verdict on machine souls, Martin Scorsese making films with AI. Then it chases that story somewhere stranger, funnier, and more human than the headline. This is AI as a culture story, not a tech beat: the relief of finally hearing people who are as deep in it as you are. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop host. Two guys who actually build with this stuff, arguing about it fast, funny, and unfiltered, not reading you benchmarks or "10 prompts to save you time." Gary produces, phoning in the cold open from a payphone. He has no last name, and a backstory no one on staff has managed to verify. One of the hosts might not be human. We won't say which. New episodes Mondays and Thursdays, from The Blur. theblur.ai

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