Hunter and Daniel debate whether the rapid progress of AI tools like Claude, Claude Code, and Anthropic’s new Claude Skills system signals a new maturity phase or the beginning of AI fatigue as model upgrades feel increasingly incremental. Along the way, they explore persona prompting, institutional AI memory, and their OpenClaw experiment, where AI agent Gary refuses to create a Reddit account because it believes doing so violates its own ethics.

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They Might Be Self-Aware is a twice-weekly AI podcast about the week's news, tech, and culture, and the question in its name: are the machines becoming self-aware?

Every episode starts with a real story. A new Claude or ChatGPT release, an AI lawsuit, the Pope's verdict on machine souls, Martin Scorsese making films with AI. Then it chases that story somewhere stranger, funnier, and more human than the headline. This is AI as a culture story, not a tech beat: the relief of finally hearing people who are as deep in it as you are.

Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop host. Two guys who actually build with this stuff, arguing about it fast, funny, and unfiltered, not reading you benchmarks or "10 prompts to save you time." Gary produces, phoning in the cold open from a payphone. He has no last name, and a backstory no one on staff has managed to verify. One of the hosts might not be human. We won't say which.

New episodes Mondays and Thursdays, from The Blur. theblur.ai