Bot Your Average Podcast

Nigel joins the podcast again as the gang breaks out their tinfoil hats and dives into what is going on behind the hype of Claude Mythos while the players in the AI Race rearrange themselves yet again. Things get even weirder as they touch on aliens, digital Jesus, crazy AI videos, and improper AI use in the workplace. Links: Claude Mythos: What Does Anthropic’s New Model Mean for the Future of Cy...

The US Department of War is fighting with Anthropic, and OpenAI tries to save the day. Meanwhile the rest of us wait to see if AI is going to take our jobs. Plus, Jill and Michael model vulnerability as they admit not having fully read every article they talk about. Links: Anthropic’s response to the department of war: https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war Anthropic paper on jo...

Nigel Harstad is back as we discuss our 2026 AI predictions and how we’re approaching 2026 ourselves. Michael and Nigel talk about their cool AI productivity use cases, plus the future of humans as contractors for AI, how disappointment with AI productivity tools at work is driving government employees to bring their own AI tooling, and Jill’s break-up with ChatGPT. Links: Sam crashes out on Anthr...

Michael and Jill lean in to their respective ADHD diagnoses and recap anything and everything 2025 AI. From their ChatGPT “wrapped” content, to Nano Banana Pro, to the rise of prediction markets, to advertising in AI, join them to consider where 2025 leaves us and what that might mean for the future of AI. Links: Open AI Declares “Code Red”: - OpenAI Declares ‘Code Red’ as Google Threatens AI Lead...

Are all these model updates exciting or getting boring? Meanwhile Anthropic announces Claude Code has been used to perpetrate cyber attacks. Michael and Jill talk through a bevy of recent model upgrades and contemplate some interesting Anthropic announcements. Links: Claude Code and cyber attacks: Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign \ Anthropic Anthropic Vending...

Join Jill and Michael as they welcome their first guest, Dr. Nigel Harstad, North Dakota State Demographer, and discuss his creation and use of AI agents at work. Also, the release of AI web browser Atlas, data privacy & government AI use, and the AI economy. Resources: Article: Linkedin Article– Excel v orchestration

Join Jill and Michael as they virtually unbox unhinged AI videos created by the new Sora2, consider how AI could influence the market (moreso), and discuss robots that can do household chores AND fight. Links: Music sentiment and economic trends study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304405X21003718 , related article: https://hbr.org/2022/01/when-people-listen-to-happy-song...

Join Jill and Michael as they contemplate what is real and what is AI: an update on the Albanian Minister of AI, discussing AI safety, and what an AI super intelligence could mean for our future–or if it means we simply don’t exist. Also, OpenAI and Nvidia investing in each other and data center impacts on local communities. Resources: Eutrophication: The reduction of dissolved oxygen in aquatic e...

Show notes: Michael and Jill discuss their recent successful (and unsuccessful) AI projects, the middling reception of ChatGPT-5, and explore the implications of replacing government officials with bots. Who is really in charge here? Links: Scientific American: ChatGPT is Changing the Words we use in Conversation https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-is-changing-the-words-we-use-in-co...

Show notes: Welcome to Bot Your Average Podcast! Meet our hosts, Jill and Michael, as they finally launch the podcast they tried to start as co-workers, just in time for the release of GPT5. They'll dive into the new model (well, hypothetically for Jill), chat about how they approach picking which AI models to use, and how AI might (or might not) replace humans at work. They also cover wearables,...