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We believe that Manual Work is a Bug. This is a podcast about automation, the future of technology, the future of work, and the intersection of humans and AI. You'll hear from CEOs, entrepreneurs and voices in tech share their stories and how they see the future.
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How People Actually Shop for Insurance With AI & How Agencies Can Show Up (opens the original)
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Your customer is about to ask an AI whether they're overpaying you. Mav Founder + CEO Matthew Black and Head of Brand Hillary Black get into what happens when people end up shopping for insurance when all they did was ask AI to fix their budget.On the table: the prop plane Matthew almost bought, why comparison sites can't help you with this, what Bitcoin taught him about how consumers trust, how a small agencies compete with big budgets, how to get your agency recommended by ChatGPT, what insura
Where to Start Using AI in Your Business (and Where to Never Use It) (opens the original)
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If you found AI for the first time today, where would you start? Mav Founder + CEO Matthew Black and Head of Brand Hillary Black run the thought experiment: deserted island, you reenter civilization, and every tool that exists right now is sitting there waiting. What do you reach for first, and what should you never touch at all?On the table: the two questions that tell you where to start, why the thing everyone reaches for first is the wrong thing, Matthew's AI ick and the one skill he wishes h
AI Conspiracy Theories: True or False? (opens the original)
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Get hour tinfoil hats out, this week we're talking about 10 AI conspiracy theories. Mav Founder + CEO Matthew Black and Head of Brand Hillary Black go through the internet's darkest, strangest and weirdest AI theories. Real, or fever dream?On the list: Google buying a dead airline's data. Shredding rare books for the sake of AI. The dead internet theory. An agent-only forum where the bots allegedly invented their own language in thirty-six hours. Labs poisoning their own models to keep them to t
Is The Future for Everyone? AI Brand Trips, Local Models and Your Local Library (opens the original)
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Is AI actually locked up for the rich? Mav Founder + CEO Matthew Black and Head of Brand Hillary Black open on Mark Zuckerberg's new manifesto, "The Future is for Everyone" — released the day Meta open-sourced Muse Glimmer, a 30B model small enough to run on your own machine. Matthew's read: the scary question was never who controls AI, it's who doesn't have it yet. And the public library is the counterargument nobody makes (but we're in huge support of, seriously, give them your money).Hillary
Agents on the Org Chart: Should You Give AI Agents Real Work? How? (opens the original)
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How many Claude sessions is too many? Mav Founder + CEO Matthew Black and Head of Brand Hillary Black open with Matthew running six at once — then dig into where AI agents actually belong in a company. The jumping-off point: Jack Dorsey and Block's new open-source tool Buzz, where agents are first-class citizens (their own identity, permissions, and audit trail) instead of bolted-on Slack bots. Matthew's real interest isn't the chat — it's shared compute and a shared context window, so the whole
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