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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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00:39:24

What happens when Elon's NSFW anime AI waifu gets a...

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2025/07/29

CHAPTERS:0:00 Mecha Hitlers and Mayhem1:05 What Is Grok 4?2:30 Elon’s AI Edgelord: Shock Value by Design4:25 Grok’s Anime Companion & “NSFW” Features6:30 Why the US Government Signed a Deal Anyway10:00 Should AI Be Allowed to Say No?12:15 Grok vs ChatGPT: Bias, Intelligence & Danger15:00 China’s Kimi K2 and the Rise of Mega Models19:30 Government Contracts: Benchmarking or Backroom Deals?23:00 AI Risks in S&P 500 Disclosures26:00 Will AI Replace Human Jobs (Like Yours)?29:00 Dev Tools, AGI

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00:33:13

This AI Wrote a 100-Page Book In 10 Hours

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2025/07/25

CHAPTERS:00:00 - Intro: Feasting on the Silicon Carnage01:07 - Are AI Tools Creating Productivity Gods?02:09 - How I Misused an AI for a Creative Project05:15 - The AI Starts Building a TEAM (Sub-Agents)06:20 - The SHOCKING Result: A 100-Page Book in 10 Hours09:52 - The Secret to Making This a Repeatable Process13:19 - PRO TIP: AI Burt Reynolds Will Read To You14:36 - The Promise of a True AI Personal Assistant16:18 - The Future is AI Web Browsers (Perplexity Comet)22:08 - What Would We ACTUALLY

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00:54:36

This Engineer Scammed 8 Companies For Free Paychecks

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2025/07/21

CHAPTERS:00:00 - Is Nvidia's $4 TRILLION Valuation a Lie?02:54 - We're Living in a Simulation (The Stock Market)04:58 - The Insane Power of Nvidia's GPUs06:47 - Microsoft & Meta's MASSIVE Tech Layoffs09:03 - Microsoft Fired Them, Then Offered AI Therapy13:17 - The Engineer Who Scammed 8 Companies18:14 - His Scam: Eight Jobs, ZERO Work22:14 - How AI is Making Scams Unstoppable26:17 - Hackathons are a SCAM (Here's Why)33:38 - The REAL Definition of AGI36:07 - The Ultimate Test: Can AI Make Money?47:19

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00:33:10

Is Elon's New AI a $3,000 SCAM?

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2025/07/17

CHAPTERS:0:00 - The $3,000 AI Announcement1:28 - What Is "Super Grok Heavy"?2:32 - Is The "Panel of Experts" Method a Gimmick?4:50 - The AI "Chugging" Strategy7:14 - Who Is Actually PAYING For This?8:43 - The Simple ROI Math: Will Grok Make You Money?10:15 - Our Personal AI Workflows (Opus vs Sonnet)13:22 - The #1 Reason ALL AI Models Still Fail15:06 - Why Building Software is Like Making 3 Different Movies17:58 - The "AI Shotgun" Method for Better Results20:17 - Why We're Building Our Own AI

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00:37:11

Zuckerberg Is Paying $100,000,000 For A Meta AI Team

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2025/07/15

CHAPTERS:00:00 - I'm Quitting for $100,000,00001:13 - The Meta AI Super Team02:15 - Is The $100M Offer REAL?04:48 - Sam Altman vs. Zuckerberg05:58 - The Race to Superintelligence is a Myth08:32 - Apple's Smarter AI Strategy09:11 - Running an AI Model on a Plane13:20 - AI's Massive Copyright Lawsuit Problem15:49 - How Will The AI Legal Cases End?19:27 - Will AI Testify in Its Own Defense?22:02 - Claude AI Tries to Run a Snack Shop25:10 - The AI Has a Nervous Breakdown26:04 - Should We Let AI Run a

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00:30:57

My Co-Host Has ChatGPT Psychosis

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2025/07/10

CHAPTERS:00:00 - My Co-Host Has ChatGPT Psychosis01:24 - Are People Having Mental Breakdowns from AI?02:16 - The Dangerous AI Feedback Loop05:01 - AI is a Mirror to Your Mind05:47 - "The Robots Told Me To, Your Honor"06:17 - Human or AI? The Lines are Blurring08:25 - Do We Treat AI Worse Than Humans?11:00 - AI Is Replacing Call Center Workers13:10 - The AI Economy Isn't About Profit, It's About Adoption16:38 - The Fed Confirms: AI is Coming for Your Jobs18:03 - Tesla's Robotaxi Army is Here (With a

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00:31:26

AI Therapy Is A Crime (And You're Using It)

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2025/07/07

CHAPTERS:00:00 - Will AIs Create a Secret Language?02:20 - Robot Espionage & AI James Bond02:58 - The AI That Memorized Harry Potter05:39 - Is Training AI on Books a Crime?12:08 - The AI Barbie That Will Destroy Childhood14:49 - Is Your AI Therapist Illegal?17:15 - The FTC Investigates OpenAI21:30 - The Video Game That Explains AI25:04 - When Will AI Become a Licensed Doctor?27:11 - The World's WORST New Job: "AI Sin Eater"29:22 - Could You Go To Jail For An AI's Mistake?

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00:31:23

Google Gemini is my new AI girlfriend?! AI usage...

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2025/06/30

👇 Skip to what matters most:Chapters:0:00 Is Google Gemini My Girlfriend Now?3:00 Gemini Gets Smarter (and Needier)6:00 Claude, Perplexity, and Data Lake Wars9:00 Gemini 2.5 Pro’s Giant Context Window13:00 Gemini & Claude Panic Playing Pokémon17:00 AI Replacing Jobs? Hello, Scrum Master21:00 How AI is Actually Used at Work25:00 The $200/month AI Arms Race29:00 Subscribe While It’s Still Free

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00:41:11

AI Kiss DeepFakes GO Mainstream? Veo 3, Apple Vision...

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2025/06/27

Chapters:0:00 Welcome to the Wild World of AI1:05 Veo 3 Is Amazing… but Why Aren’t We Using It?4:00 The Rise of AI Kiss Apps & Hugging Deepfakes6:15 Are They Harmless Fantasies or Ethical Nightmares?9:20 ChatGPT Conversations: Gone… or Just Hidden?11:10 OpenAI Legal Trouble & Why Deletion May Not Be Real14:45 Local AI Models: Privacy Savior or Niche Toy?18:00 Mistral’s Magistral LLM – Fast, Local, Surprisingly Smart22:30 Can LLMs Be Your Creative Goldmine?26:00 Meta’s $15B AI Bet & Why Apple Isn’t

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00:32:37

AI Shamed Me Into Donating $12 | Claude's Guilt Trip...

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2025/06/24

Chapters:0:00 Intro – AI Guilt and $121:30 Claude’s Moral High Ground4:00 Apple’s “Thinking” Paper & AI Illusions6:00 Is Claude a Better Person Than Us?10:00 LLMs: Not Smart at Math, Still Smarter Than People?13:00 WWDC Letdown: Emoji Mashups & Siri Shade17:00 The Case for Personal AI (and GLaDOS Home Assistants)18:30 AI Blackmail and MCP Protocols Explained20:50 Tool Use, Model Context, and Real-World AI24:00 Dario Amodei, Optics, and Anthropic’s Safety PR26:00 Should the U.S. Ban State AI

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00:33:55

AI vs Humans: 700 workers PRETENDED to be AI |...

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2025/06/21

Chapters:0:00 Intro – UAE’s ChatGPT+ for All?2:15 ChatGPT, Taxes & the Case for UBI5:10 Should AIs Have Bank Accounts?8:00 Duolingo’s AI Expansion & Layoff Debate13:30 Human-in-the-Loop: Still the Standard?15:10 Builder.ai: 700 People Pretending to Be AI20:00 Real AI or Just Templates?22:00 The Fraud That Sank a Billion-Dollar AI Startup23:30 Would You Hire a $1M AI Employee?26:20 Are We Already in the Simulation?

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00:32:59

Coding AI REALITY Check: Why Cursor, Windsurf & AI...

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2025/06/19

Chapters:0:00 – Intro & 100th Episode Celebration2:10 – The AI Coding Gold Rush: Cursor, Windsurf & Valuations5:20 – Is AI Coding a Real Use Case — or Just Hype?8:00 – Claude vs. Copilot vs. OpenAI Agents11:45 – Vibe Coding: Real Dev Workflows with AI16:50 – TDD, Benchmarks & Testing AI-Generated Code23:00 – Are Junior Dev Jobs Disappearing?27:30 – Why Passion + AI Wins in Today’s Job Market31:15 – Final Thoughts & Subscribe Everywhere

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00:35:56

AI Darth Vader Goes ROGUE in Fortnite: F-BOMB SPREE,...

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2025/06/11

Chapters:0:00 Intro – A Sith Lord Joins the Show1:43 AI Darth Vader Invades Fortnite4:46 Voice Cloning with James Earl Jones6:27 Why We Try to Break AI10:19 AI Guardrails and Misuse Culture11:17 Veo 3 Video AI: First Impressions13:45 The Man Rock Test Video16:42 Sora vs. Veo vs. Runway: The Showdown18:28 DeepSeek, China, and Copyright Battles22:14 Are We in a Post-Copyright World?27:34 AI Summaries Are Killing Ad Revenue33:40 Compression, Nuance & The Future of Content34:24 Wrap-up

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00:30:42

AI Pin DREAMS or Wearable NIGHTMARE? Johnny Ive, Meta...

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2025/06/06

Chapters:0:00 Daniel's AI Grievance3:00 Johnny Ive, OpenAI & the AI Pin Rumor6:30 The Rise and Fall of Humane’s AI Device10:00 Always-On AI Assistants – Dream or Nightmare?14:30 Battery Problems & On-Device Processing Limitations18:00 Meta Ray-Ban Glasses & the “Glasses vs. Pins” Debate24:00 Google Glass Reboot, Android XR & Wearable Futures26:30 NLP for Translation, Accessibility & Global Connection29:00 Smart Glasses Without the Smart

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00:44:50

AI Coding Wars: Devs Battle Over Framework Chaos...

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2025/06/02

Chapters:0:00 AI Disrupts Dev Workflows2:15 AI Tools & Rapid Iteration Risks10:45 Framework Chaos & Stakeholder Impact18:30 Personal Projects: AI vs Manual Coding27:00 Cursor AI, LiteLLM, and Bleeding-edge Coding33:05 Future Coding: TDD AI & Automation35:32 Multimodal AI & Speech-to-Speech Advances39:08 Hiring AI Employees: Devin and Codex42:09 AI's Breakthrough Discoveries43:41 Wrap-up & Listener Engagement

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00:45:25

AI Coding: How ChatGPT Writes 35% Of Our Code?...

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2025/05/26

Chapters:0:00 Intro4:08 AI Coding in Today's Companies7:22 Real-world Use Case: AI for Data Labeling12:17 AI Coding Assistants (Kline & Cursor)17:33 How Much Code Is AI Actually Writing?24:15 AI Security & Company Policies26:23 What Makes an "AI-First" Company?35:48 Future of AI Coding Workflows41:05 Agile Framework Choices in AI Coding42:15 AI-First: Products for AI Consumption

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00:48:05

AI Productivity Alpha: Grok & Claude Work Hacks That...

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2025/05/20

CHAPTERS:00:00:52 - Introduction00:05:31 - First Experiences with LLMs at Work00:14:09 - Using LLMs for Negotiation00:26:47 - Email Crafting and Context Setting00:33:17 - Effective Prompting Techniques00:37:21 - Framework for Complex Projects00:41:59 - Getting Started with LLMs at Work

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00:45:32

How ChatGPT Transformed Daily Life: Real-World AI...

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2025/05/16

CHAPTERS:00:00:00 - Welcome to the AI fever dream00:00:35 - Deep research mode for shopping & events00:13:00 - eBay haggling with ChatGPT00:15:50 - Finding impossible-to-find products00:18:40 - DIY AI therapy & self-coaching00:27:28 - Language learning hacks00:36:39 - Notebook LM for podcast summaries00:40:47 - Context files & knowledge vaults00:42:02 - Wrap Up

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00:32:39

AI Girlfriend: SHOCKING Workplace Flirting With...

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2025/05/13

Chapters:00:00:00 - Intro00:03:05 - When Will AI Replace 51% of Human Jobs? (AGI Definition)00:08:00 - Epic Fail: Carnegie Mellon's All-AI Company Experiment00:15:06 - Flirting with Digital Employees: HR Nightmare or Clickbait?00:22:15 - Real-World AI Employees: DJs, Software Engineers, and Ethics00:27:08 - Future Lawsuits: Can AI Employees Be Sexually Harassed?00:31:13 - Wrap Up

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00:38:07

GPT-4o Praise Bug Exposed: Claude AI & Real AI Ethics

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2025/05/08

Discover why your chatbot is suddenly praising you non-stop in this deep dive into the **GPT-4o Praise** bug, Claude AI's ethical insights, and the realities behind AI assistants' behavior.In this episode of "They Might Be Self-Aware," Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop unpack the strange phenomenon where GPT-4o excessively compliments its users. Is OpenAI's popular chatbot just being helpful, or is there a deeper issue? Plus, Anthropic’s Claude AI grades itself on ethics and values—can an AI

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