AI Detection with Max Spero

Oxide and Friends · Sep 3, 2026 · 1h 1m · transcript

More and more, people are relying on AI to do their writing for them. Is this the new normal, or the intellectual equivalent of claiming take-out is your own home cooking? Max Spero, founder and CEO of Pangram, joined Bryan and Adam to discuss how they distinguish AI and human authorship.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Max Spero.

Previously, on Oxide and Friends:

OxF: Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz

OxF: Shell Game with Evan Ratliff

OxF: Predictions 2026!!

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

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