Episode Details

In this special bonus for Ctrl-Alt-Speech listeners, we're cross-posting an episode from the Future Around And Find Out podcast hosted by Dan Blumberg with guest Kwaku Aning.

This week Dan and Kwaku dig into: 

• The uncanny valley that is AI agents and Moltbook—the "Reddit" that agents built for themselves to complain about humans, create a religion, and behave in ways that freak humans out 
• Anthropic takes aim at OpenAI with a Super Bowl ad that's spicy (for cubs and cougars alike) 
• We read Claude's "Constitution" and ask: Should AI do what you ask it to do—or what it thinks you really want long-term? 
• Why Dan switched from OpenAI to Claude (and what he learned about tone, capability, and custom projects) 
• OpenAI scrambles; the market stumbles; Jensen Huang acts like Sam Altman is "just someone I used to know" 
• How AEO (AI Engine Optimization) becomes critical in an AI-agent world—and what that means for brand, marketing, and search 
• Why social media is already past (dark social won) 
• Elon's pivot to humanoid robots, data centers in space, and other cool things we definitely need 
• Are we setting higher ethical standards for machines than for tech leaders? 

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).