Podcast Episodes

Episode 1: Minimum Viable Company

Season 2 Episode 1

In Season 2 of Shell Game, journalist Evan Ratliff tells a story of entrepreneurship in the AI age; or, how he tried to build a real company, run by fake people.

Meet Kyle Law and Megan Flores, Evan’…

Published on 8 hours ago

The One-Human Unicorn

Season 2

As AI agents infiltrate the workforce, some tech entrepreneurs are imagining a not-so-distant future of successful companies with only one human at the helm. That got investigative journalist and for…

Published on 1 week ago

Season 2 Is Coming!

Season 2

The next season of Shell Game arrives November 12.

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Published on 1 month ago

Episode 6: The Future Isn't Real

Season 1 Episode 6

Evan pushes the experiment one step further, sending his AI voice agent to talk to his closest friends and family — his buddies, his daughters, his dad. With their alternately joyful, skeptical, and …

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Episode 5: My Digital Twin

Season 1 Episode 5

Will AI bots replace humans in the workforce? Could one replace Evan… right now? That’s what we tackle on this week’s Shell Game, in which Evan sees just how much of his job his voice agent can handl…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Episode 4: Take a Deep Breath

Season 1 Episode 4

Evan looks into the depths of his AI-powered voice agent by sending it on a new mission: going to therapy. Shell Game is made by humans. More specifically, it's made by three humans: Evan Ratliff (ho…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Episode 3: Conversations With Myself

Season 1 Episode 3

Evan takes his experiment in a new direction by having his AI-powered voice agent converse with … another of his AI-powered voice agents. What can these surreal and hilarious conversations between tw…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Episode 2: Me and My Scammer

Season 1 Episode 2

Evan turns his AI-powered voice agent loose on the people who are always at the forefront of technological adoption: the fraudsters and the rip-off artists. How will the scammers and spammers react w…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Episode 1: Quality Assurance

Season 1 Episode 1

This is the story of what happens when Evan Ratliff, a longtime tech journalist, makes a digital copy of himself, powered by AI, in order to understand how amazing and scary and utterly ridiculous th…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Introducing Shell Game, a Strange and Immersive AI Experiment

Season 1

What would happen if you created a digital copy of yourself, powered by AI, and set it loose in the world? Evan Ratliff, longtime tech journalist, decided to find out. He combined a clone of his voic…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago