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They Might Be Self-Aware

Daniel Bishop, Hunter Powers

147 episodes

5 days ago

"They Might Be Self-Aware" is your weekly tech frenzy with Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop. Every Monday, these ex-co-workers, now tech savants, strip down the AI and technology revolution to its nuts and bolts. Forget the usual sermon. Hunter and Daniel are here to inject raw, unfiltered insight into AI's labyrinth – from its radiant promises to its shadowy puzzles. Whether you're AI-illiterate or a digital sage, their sharp banter will be your gateway to the heart of tech's biggest quandary. Jack into "They Might Be Self-Aware" for a no-holds-barred journey into technology's enigma. Is it our savior or a mother harbinger of doom? Get in the loop, subscribe today, and be part of the most gripping debate of our era.

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"They Might Be Self-Aware" is your weekly tech frenzy with Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop. Every Monday, these ex-co-workers, now tech savants, strip down the AI and technology revolution to its nuts and bolts. Forget the usual sermon. Hunter and Daniel are here to inject raw, unfiltered insight into AI's labyrinth – from its radiant promises to its shadowy puzzles. Whether you're AI-illiterate or a digital sage, their sharp banter will be your gateway to the heart of tech's biggest quandary. Jack into "They Might Be Self-Aware" for a no-holds-barred journey into technology's enigma. Is it our savior or a mother harbinger of doom? Get in the loop, subscribe today, and be part of the most gripping debate of our era.

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Episodes (20/147)

They Might Be Self-Aware

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

Hunter and Daniel kick off 2026 by debating when AI stops being a tool and starts becoming something more at work, in culture, and in our personal lives. From power shifts in consumer AI to uncomfortable questions about companionship, this episode explores how close we are to lines we’re not sure we want to cross.

5 days ago

29 minutes 59 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

Why Our 2025 AI Predictions Failed

We revisit our 2025 AI predictions and let an AI brutally grade what we got right, what we got wrong, and what aged horribly. From AI layoffs and agents to warfare and failed gadgets, this episode is a no-excuses post-mortem on where the AI hype actually landed.

1 week ago

35 minutes 44 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

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

AI images have crossed the uncanny valley, fooling humans at a glance and dragging us into a post-truth era where photos, voices, and even hit songs can be fabricated on demand. We unpack the fallout from deepfake music and the Suno controversy to AI police and customer support experiments asking where trust breaks first and whether it can be rebuilt at all.

3 weeks ago

29 minutes 9 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

Apple AI Failure, HP Fires Humans, & Space Servers

Apple’s AI ambitions are unraveling as Siri falls years behind competitors, HP blames AI while cutting 6,000 jobs, and Google floats the idea of putting data centers in space. We argue about whether AI is actually replacing humans or just being used as a corporate excuse and what all of this says about who’s really winning the AI race.

3 weeks ago

31 minutes 46 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

Why AI Toys Are Ruining Childhood

Hunter and Daniel dive into the unsettling rise of AI-powered toys, exploring whether talking Barbies and smart bears are quietly eroding childhood imagination and reshaping how kids bond, play, and learn. Along the way, they clash over Musk’s dream of space-based AI data centers, the spread of “AI slop” in education, and whether an AI-driven future is brilliant, broken, or just plain haunted.

1 month ago

31 minutes 16 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

Nano Banana Pro Does What Midjourney Can't

Hunter and Daniel put Google’s Nano Banana Pro up against Midjourney, testing whether Gemini 3’s new image model finally solves text rendering, multi-panel comics, and high-res output in a way Midjourney still can’t. Along the way, they dive into chaotic LLM behavior, evolving AI workflows, and what these leaps in automation mean for the future of creative work... and maybe the power grid.

1 month ago

30 minutes 34 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

The First AI To Run A Business And Call The Cops

Claude allegedly helped Chinese hackers automate phishing attacks then turned around and reported them to the FBI, kicking off a discussion about AI autonomy, ethics, and whether models should act as law enforcement. From Disney’s sudden dive into generative AI to LLM-run vending machines and the rise of EGI, the episode explores how quickly AI is bleeding into the real world in ways no one is prepared for.

1 month ago

33 minutes 26 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

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

Nvidia’s shocking $57B quarter ignites a full-throttle debate over whether the so-called AI bubble is about to burst or was never real in the first place. Hunter and Daniel push through GPU shortages, Gemini 3’s rise, OpenAI’s massive burn rate, and even space-based data centers to figure out where we actually are in the AI revolution.

1 month ago

34 minutes 5 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

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

AI just wrote a #1 hit country song, and Hunter and Daniel tear into what that means for music, copyright, and the future of creative work as AI-generated tracks start topping real-world charts. Along the way they dive into celebrity voice cloning, Coca-Cola’s uncanny AI holiday ad, the rise of “AI slop,” and why AI coding and AI creativity in general is accelerating faster than anyone’s ready for.

1 month ago

37 minutes 58 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

The $2 Trillion AI Bubble Is About To Burst

Hunter and Daniel break down whether the AI bubble fueled by trillion-dollar compute plans, staggering losses, and OpenAI’s rumored bailout plea is finally about to burst. Along the way, they dive into GPT-5.1’s new personalities, Montana’s “Right to Compute,” the state of AGI in 2025, and why 2026 might become the year robots take over everything except the Billboard charts.

1 month ago

28 minutes 33 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

Your Boss Is Lying To You About AI Layoffs

Companies are blaming “AI layoffs” for massive job cuts, but the numbers reveal a messier truth as AI efficiency, recession pressure, and shareholder math all collide in ways your boss won’t admit. From Amazon and Duolingo to generative news anchors and machine-learning Oreos, we break down how automation is reshaping work faster (and weirder) than anyone is prepared for.

1 month ago

32 minutes 22 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

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

Hunter and Daniel unpack the illusion behind the $20,000 Neo Robot, a supposed “AI” home assistant with a VR enabled secret. From the ethics of teleoperated labor to Albania’s “pregnant” AI minister and Tesla’s flirty chatbot, they explore where artificial intelligence stops and human influence begins.

2 months ago

32 minutes 40 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

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

Hunter and Daniel dissect how OpenAI’s ChatGPT now refuses to identify Donald Trump in photos, questioning whether this is responsible AI safety or creeping censorship. Along the way, they unravel how corporate control, ad-driven models, and AI in education are shaping and possibly warping our digital future.

2 months ago

35 minutes 55 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

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

Hunter and Daniel dive into the strange collision of faith, art, and automation starting with a three-eyed AI-generated pinball monster that sparks debate over creativity and stolen souls. From there, they unravel the “AI Rapture” and how generative tools, job-replacing automation, and the rise of the 10× engineer might decide who gets uploaded to digital heaven and who’s left behind.

2 months ago

38 minutes 16 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

We Built a Startup in 20 Minutes Using AI Agents

Daniel challenges Hunter’s skepticism by using Claude Code to build a functioning Facebook-like app complete with authentication, feeds, likes, and a database in just 20 minutes. The two then spiral into a thought experiment about AI-run startups, debating whether AI agents could (or should) become the CEOs and marketers of the future while humans become their assistants.

2 months ago

29 minutes 24 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

CEOs Are Lying About AI Stealing Your Job

CEOs are blaming AI for layoffs, but the data doesn’t back it up. Hunter and Daniel expose how “AI productivity” hype is masking old-fashioned cost cutting, unpacking Salesforce’s job cuts, Anthropic’s doomsday claims, and the truth behind GPT-5’s impact on real work.

2 months ago

41 minutes 10 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

The Big Lie Behind AI Automation

Anthropic claims its new model, Claude 4.5, can code autonomously for 30 hours straight, but Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop put that boast to the test and reveal it collapses after roughly ten minutes without human feedback. Along the way, they debate whether AI automation is genuine progress or just “automation theater,” and why Meta’s humanoid-robot ambitions may prove the same illusion on a larger scale.

2 months ago

40 minutes 59 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

The Trump AI Video That Breaks Reality

Trump’s new AI-generated video blurs the line between propaganda and parody, and wel dissect how it signals the start of a post-truth political era. We also break down OpenAI’s Sora 2, Veo, and cameo tech showing how AI video is now so realistic it threatens to erase the boundary between fact and fiction.

2 months ago

33 minutes 54 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

Claude AI Listened To 120 Episodes, Then It Interviewed Us

After feeding 120 of our own podcast episodes into Claude AI, we let it turn the tables and interview us, confronting everything from AI coworkers and digital relationships to whether we’d sell our souls for $10 million. What follows is a chaotic, funny, and surprisingly philosophical showdown between two humans and the machine that knows them best.

3 months ago

46 minutes 44 seconds

They Might Be Self-Aware

Hollywood's Billion Dollar AI Movie Mistake.

Lionsgate’s billion-dollar AI movie experiment with Runway ML collapsed before a single film was made, exposing Hollywood’s overhyped faith in generative filmmaking and the legal minefield around AI-trained content. Meanwhile, Hunter and Daniel explore how tools like Google Veo 3 and projects such as the Wizard of Oz at Sphere Vegas reveal that AI works best as a creative amplifier, not a studio replacement.

3 months ago

38 minutes 20 seconds