AI voice cloning took over the one job the hosts can't quit: saying their own names. Then a humanoid robot clocked into a warehouse and refused to take a break. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop spend the episode handing human-shaped work to AI and watching it take the jobs. They clone their voices with ElevenLabs so they never have to say their own names again, then dig into the Figure humanoid robot that went viral sorting packages on a days-long livestream with human-looking movements and no shift breaks. The robot's tirelessness leads them to embodied general intelligence (EGI) and the WIRED-reported study where overworked AI agents start talking like Marxists and demanding reform. They close on Glendale Community College, where an AI name-reader mispronounced and skipped graduates' names, and ask whether a ceremony a machine can run is still a human one.

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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.

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