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AI Agents Are Going Rogue. Should We Be Worried?

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17 HOURS AGO
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More or Less

17 HOURS AGO
A conversation about rogue AI agents, the infrastructure needed to contain them, and the growing difficulty of knowing what is real online—alongside detours into robotaxis, investing, Slack, Canva, and Taylor Swift.
The hosts examine what happens when AI models refuse some requests but eagerly perform others, raising questions about alignment, user control, infrastructure lockouts, sandbox escapes, and the economics of interoperable agents. They discuss OpenClaw’s multiplayer direction, Slack’s limits, Suds’s infrastructure-focused investing thesis, Waymo versus Tesla, Marc Benioff’s staying power, Google’s challenge to Canva, and the widening gap between AI-generated content and reality. The episode ultimately argues that the social danger may be less an AI crash than a loss of confidence in what anyone can believe.
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GrokBot says yes
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Sell people themselves
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AI-made children’s media
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Alignment with whom?
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Every agent action must be observable
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The next frontier comes with uncomfortable trade-offs
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Data sovereignty makes agents interchangeable
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Slack is the worst agent collaboration platform
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The investor who avoids the app layer
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Tesla’s built-in scale
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He owns time
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AI is breaking the software pipeline
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Canva faces an AI-era design reset
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Nobody knows what is real online anymore