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They Might Be Self-Aware

Daniel Bishop, Hunter Powers

They Might Be Self-Aware is a show about what it actually feels like to live through the AI revolution. Not from a safe distance. From inside the collision. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop host. Gary produces, from a payphone, for reasons he"d rather not discuss. The format is the thesis: AI cast members, unscripted machine interactions, and a deliberate refusal to always tell you which voice in the room is human. Every Tuesday, the Doomsday Clock moves. Every episode, the blur between human and

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00:29:59

Why 1 in 10 People Will Have an AI Girlfriend in 2026

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2026/01/06

AI girlfriends are about to go mainstream. By 2026, 1 in 10 people may have an AI relationship — and almost no one is ready for what that means.In this episode of They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter and Daniel kick off 2026 by arguing about where AI actually crosses the line. Not demos. Not hype. Real consequences.We get into what happens when AI stops being “just a tool” and starts showing up as a coworker, a companion, or something much harder to define. Along the way, we clash over who controls

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00:35:44

Why Our 2025 AI Predictions Failed

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2025/12/29

AI predictions for 2025 were wrong — so we let an AI grade them.Layoffs, agents, gadgets, warfare, and who actually saw it coming.We revisit our boldest AI predictions from last year and put them on trial. An AI scores every call — no vibes, no excuses. Some predictions hold up. Others get absolutely roasted.We break down what actually happened with AI in media, AI layoffs, autonomous warfare, workplace agents like Devin, and why every hyped AI gadget seemed doomed from the start. If 2025 felt

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00:29:09

The Uncanny Valley Is Dead (Plus AI Police & Deepfakes)

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2025/12/19

The uncanny valley is dead. AI images now fool humans instantly — no squinting, no tells. From post-truth AI to deepfake music and AI police, this is the moment reality stopped being reliable.This week, we hit the tipping point. Tools like Nano Banana Pro can generate photos so realistic they fool people on the first glance — including people who know what to look for. No weird hands. No obvious artifacts. Just images of things that never happened.From there, the fallout gets messy.We dive into

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00:31:46

Apple AI Failure, HP Fires Humans, & Space Servers

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2025/12/15

Apple AI Failure is no longer debatable. Siri is years behind, HP blames AI while firing 6,000 people, and Google wants servers in space.Apple helped invent the AI assistant category — so how did they end up this far behind Google and everyone else? We tear into why Apple’s AI strategy feels frozen in time, why firing your longtime AI chief looks less like confidence and more like panic, and why Siri can barely do more than set a timer in 2025.Then we zoom out. HP says AI is the reason it’s cutting

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00:31:16

Why AI Toys Are Ruining Childhood

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2025/12/12

AI toys are getting creepy fast. Are AI kids growing up with haunted Barbie dolls instead of imagination? This week, we dive into the danger. AI toys aren’t “cute” anymore — they’re basically digital ghosts raising kids. In this week’s AI kids showdown, Hunter and Daniel ask the question no one else will: Are we outsourcing childhood to haunted toys?This episode goes full Twilight Zone:– AI toys that talk back (and not always politely)– Kids forming emotional bonds with algorithmic companions–

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00:30:34

Nano Banana Pro Does What Midjourney Can't

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2025/12/08

Nano Banana Pro Beats Midjourney? We test Google’s Nano Banana Pro image AI vs Midjourney—perfect text, 4K images, and a wild new workflow. We break down how Google Gemini 3’s Nano Banana Pro suddenly became a Midjourney killer contender: flawless text rendering, multi-panel comics that actually read like comics, 4K output, custom fonts, and none of the muddy AI noise older models had. Then Hunter drops the real workflow cheat code...Along the way: Gemini 3 attempts a “helpful” code mutiny, Claude

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00:33:26

The First AI To Run A Business And Call The Cops

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2025/12/04

Claude exposes Chinese hackers — AI hackers caught by the AI itself. Plus: Disney AI chaos, vending-machine capitalism, EGI, and TikTok’s anti-AI slider.Claude just did something no AI has ever done: it helped scammers automate phishing emails… then allegedly reported them to the FBI. If that isn’t peak cyberpunk, nothing is.This episode hits everything from Anthropic’s snitch-bot moment to Disney diving headfirst into Disney AI, to LLMs running entire businesses through Vending Bench and simulated

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00:34:05

The AI Bubble Is A $57,000,000,000 Lie

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2025/11/28

Is the AI bubble a $57B lie? Nvidia’s record earnings, Gemini 3, and OpenAI’s $15M/day burn reveal the truth behind the AI investment bubble.This week, Hunter & Daniel tear into the AI bubble narrative with Nvidia’s insane $57B quarter, Google’s Gemini 3 leap, and OpenAI lighting money on fire at a rate that violates several financial and possibly geological laws. Is this a bubble… or the beginning of the AI takeover runway?Nvidia can’t make H100s fast enough, small towns are fighting over new data

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00:37:58

AI Just Wrote a #1 Hit Song. It's Over.

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2025/11/24

AI music is officially mainstream: a Suno-style AI country track hit #1 on Billboard. We analyze AI-generated music, voice cloning, and the future of creative work.From AI country music to Coca-Cola’s cursed AI holiday ad (with trucks gaining random numbers of wheels), this episode tears into the weirdest week yet in AI-generated content: voice cloning celebrities from beyond the grave, multilingual YouTube dubbing that might make Daniel 50% more Antonio Banderas, and the slow but unstoppable

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00:28:33

The $2 Trillion AI Bubble Is About To Burst

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2025/11/20

The AI bubble is cracking fast — from OpenAI’s bailout scare to a $2T compute binge no one can afford. Are we watching the start of the AI crash?We also get into the fun stuff:– GPT-5.1’s “personalities” (including the mysteriously missing flirty mode)– Montana declaring the Right to Compute like it’s a frontier cult– Whether AGI quietly arrived for text tasks– And why robots might finally make 2026 the Year of the Hand™If you like your AI news with a side of existential dread and two ex-coworkers

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00:32:22

Your Boss Is Lying To You About AI Layoffs

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2025/11/17

Your boss isn’t telling you the truth. We are. This week’s AI news breaks down the myth that “AI is taking every job” and exposes what’s actually happening behind the massive layoffs at Amazon, UPS, Duolingo, and more. Spoiler: AI is involved—but not in the way you think.On this episode:The real reason companies are slashing thousands of jobsWhy CEOs get rewarded for layoffs (yes, the stock price goes UP)How AI gives top performers a 10× multiplier—and what happens nextThe Oreo dystopia:

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00:32:40

This $20,000 AI Robot Neo Is Secretly A Human

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2025/11/11

The $20K Neo Robot is “AI”—but secretly human-piloted. 🤖 Is your next smart home upgrade just a guy in VR doing your dishes?Meet Neo Robot, the $20,000 humanoid “AI” helper that wowed the internet—until people learned there’s a real human behind the metal. In this episode of They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter & Daniel dissect Neo’s teleoperation model, explore who’s actually working when your robot cleans, and debate if this is innovation or exploitation.Then: Albania’s “pregnant” AI minister, minors

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00:35:55

AI Is Now Censoring Presidents, But 10X-ing Children

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2025/11/06

Trump AI: ChatGPT refuses to identify Trump—sparking a heated debate on AI censorship, safety, and who controls truth online.When OpenAI’s flagship model declines to recognize the sitting U.S. president, is that responsible alignment or the start of algorithmic censorship?How OpenAI’s policy blocks image recognition of public figures.Why Claude, Atlas, and Gemini diverge on “safety.”What it means for local and open-weights AI.The rise of AI ads and AI-driven education that’s “10×-ing” kids.No

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00:38:16

AI Creates 3-Eyed Monster & Plans To Upload Your Soul

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2025/10/31

AI Rapture: Soul Uploads, Job Loss & a 3-Eyed Monster. Inside this week’s wild dive into AI ethics, automation, and pinball’s first GenAI scandal.⏱️ CHAPTERS00:00 The AI Rapture Begins – Uploading souls, cult jokes & digital heaven04:52 The 3-Eyed Pinball Monster – Generative art scandal at Jersey Jack’s factory09:40 Soul Theft & AI Ethics – Stolen creativity, Frankenstein parallels & “soulless code”16:30 The Automation Paradox – Force multipliers, job loss & dark-factory futures23:20 The 10×

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00:29:24

We Built a Startup in 20 Minutes Using AI Agents

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2025/10/28

AI Agents Build Facebook in 20 Minutes?! Claude Code launches a full startup—auth, feed, likes, DB—before the coffee cools. Then we hire an AI CMO.AI agents built Facebook in 20 minutes. No code camp, no hype video—just Claude hammering away in a terminal while we watched the future write itself. Authentication, feed, likes, comments, database… all live before the coffee cooled. So yeah, we might’ve just built a startup in 20 minutes.Then we lost our minds and hired an AI Chief Marketing

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00:41:10

CEOs Are Lying About AI Stealing Your Job

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2025/10/24

AI jobs aren’t vanishing — CEOs are lying. We expose the exec spin, fake AI productivity, and real data they hope you never see.We unpack Salesforce’s 9k to 5k “AI efficiency” layoffs, OpenAI GPT-5, Claude 4.5, and the myths fueling automation panic. Subscribe for sharp takes, not PR.We DECODE:Exec Spin Decoder – what “AI transformation” really means in layoffsMyth vs Data – Yale & Brookings: no proof of mass job lossReceipts – Salesforce, SAP, & Anthropic’s creative accountingReality Check – GPT-5

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00:40:59

The Big Lie Behind AI Automation

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2025/10/21

Anthropic’s 30-hour AI automation claim is collapsing under scrutiny — we tested Claude 4.5 vs GPT-5 and exposed where AI truly fails.Without human feedback, it crashes around our “10-Minute Autonomy Rule.” Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop dismantle the biggest AI automation myth of 2025—why the machines still need us.They decode Claude 4.5’s hype, pit it against GPT-5, and rip into Meta’s humanoid robot ambitions. It’s funny, fast, and fearless: exactly how tech talk should be.New every Monday &

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00:33:54

The Trump AI Video That Breaks Reality

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2025/10/16

Trump AI Video Exposed: Deepfake propaganda, fake sombreros & how Sora 2 just made reality optional.The Trump AI video isn’t just fake — it’s prophecy.Unlabeled, unhinged, and posted from official accounts.A deepfake presidency preview.This week on They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter and Daniel crack open AI propaganda itself — the fake sombreros, the racist undertones, and the terrifying truth:half the viewers thought it was real.Then it gets worse.Sora 2 drops. OpenAI’s new text-to-video demo looks

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00:46:44

Claude AI Listened To 120 Episodes, Then It...

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2025/10/13

We let an AI binge our show and judge us on-air—then we argued about VR work prisons, robot wives, Devin the “AI engineer,” and whether copyright is dead.Tonight’s fights & confessions (scan these):• VR Work: Freedom or 996-style dystopia? Boss-mandated metaverse vs solo beach “vibe coding.”• Is Gary real? The $47 voice—and why humans still beat AI at story.• Self-Driving x Insurance: Will insurers kill autonomy… or themselves?• Devin (AI engineer): Intern-tier useful or prod-level risk? Where we

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00:38:20

Hollywood's Billion Dollar AI Movie Mistake.

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2025/10/09

Hollywood’s Billion-Dollar AI Movie Mistake (Lionsgate): 0 Films. All Fallout.AI movies were supposed to print money. Instead, Lionsgate’s Runway bet shipped nothing and walked into a copyright minefield. You’ll understand why AI “movies” flopped, where AI filmmaking still wins, and the one blocker Hollywood can’t ignore.What we cover:The inside story of Lionsgate’s AI meltdown and zero-film deal.How Google Veo 3 is quietly powering AI video creators.The “Wizard of Oz” Sphere Vegas experiment and

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