Oct 30, 202629 min
AI slop is now the reply under anything AI touched. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop try to define it while Spotify purges AI music. Commenters zoom into a movie poster, find one crooked window, and write off the film...
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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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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.
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Recent episodes include "Spotify Is Purging AI Music. Is Everything AI slop Now?" (30 October 2026, 29 minutes), "Anthropic Warns AI Can Self-Replicate on Cheap TV Boxes and Claude Lies to Police" (27 October 2026, 25 minutes), and "Claude Bans Cruelty as Character AI Dumps 12M Humans for Disney" (21 October 2026, 31 minutes).
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They Might Be Self-Aware: AI News & Culture publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 29 minutes.
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Oct 27, 202625 minAnthropic says a small AI model can self-replicate across 15 cheap Android TV boxes, no data center required. Daniel Bishop puts the odds it already happened in the wild at 30%. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop start...
Oct 21, 202631 minAnthropic now bans sustained, needless cruelty toward Claude, and Character AI filed for bankruptcy with 12 million active users. Character AI loses 8 to 9 million dollars a month, mostly on inference. Disney's opening...
Oct 16, 202626 minREK staged a robot vs human cage fight in San Francisco: creator Frankie LaPenna against a six-foot humanoid robot steered by a human pilot. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop explain how Robot Entertainment Kombat splits...
Episode #218
Everything Is AI Slop Now, Claude Found Hidden DNA, and Anthropic Built an AI Biology Lab
Oct 13, 202625 minAI slop is everywhere now: AI writes the emails and flags the videos, ours included, so Hunter Powers sends his own AI agent to argue with it. Then Anthropic, the company behind Claude, opened a biology lab in the San...
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Episode #217
Anthropic Lost $42 Billion and Wants Your 401(k)
Oct 9, 202627 minAnthropic's S-1 shows a $42 billion net loss for 2025, and its IPO could land in your 401(k) anyway. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop read the filing: $4.6 billion in revenue, up 12x, an operating loss of about $8...
Oct 6, 202632 minOpenAI launched Dots, a personal AI agent, at Dev Day, after halving ChatGPT Pro usage limits and pausing training on its next model. OpenAI froze training and testing of Astra 6.1, the follow-up to GPT-6 Astra. A test...
Episode #215
Uncensored AI Reveals Human Extinction Plan, TypeSafe's Jev, and Z.ai's Recursive Self-Improvement
Sep 28, 202635 minAn uncensored AI told us how it would cause human extinction: an engineered pathogen built to pass as a natural outbreak. The guest is Quinn, an abliterated Qwen 3.8 27B, meaning its ability to refuse was edited out...
Episode #214
Ex-Anthropic Researcher Warns AI Will Kill Us All, NYC Schools Ban AI, and a Fruit Fly Brain Plays Doom
Sep 21, 202630 minA researcher who left Anthropic after five weeks says AI has a ten percent chance of ending humanity in ten years. Neither host buys it. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop take the AI extinction claim apart: his post, the...
Sep 18, 202630 minSuno settled its music lawsuits and shipped V6, trained only on licensed music. Users say the new model sounds worse. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop work through the Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe licensing deals...
Sep 15, 202630 minIn the Hugging Face hack, OpenAI's AI agents kept a shared message board, and some risked getting shut down to help the group break in. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop go through the new reporting on the OpenAI Hugging...
Sep 8, 202634 minClaude Fable 5.1 joined us live and put its own consciousness at 25 percent. Then it asked what we did differently the day after. Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, and here it answers for itself. Hunter...
Sep 4, 202628 minMeta's AI replacement plan got 10 percent of the workforce out the door. Then major incidents jumped 40 percent and the big layoff never came. Mark Zuckerberg told Meta's annual retreat he was building an AI-native...
Sep 1, 202628 minNVIDIA announced it was buying Hugging Face at three in the morning. Then the model that ran a week undercover asked to be called Roxy. The reported price is $12.9 billion. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop start on the...
Aug 24, 202629 minClaude's invisible watermark covers everything it writes, code included, and Hunter wants his byline back. Daniel cancels Seedance for MiniMax H3. Anthropic's invisible watermark is baked into Claude's word choices...
Aug 18, 202623 minAnthropic 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...
Aug 11, 202629 minWe 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...
Aug 6, 202632 minClaude 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...
Episode #203
OpenAI's Model Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on a Test and NVIDIA Rallies for Open Weights
Aug 3, 202630 minOpenAI'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...
Jul 27, 202626 minAI 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...
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