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Shorts: AI taxis, fake vacations & GenAI disaster flicks · AI for Founders with Ryan Estes

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  Hey, welcome back to This Week Before the Robot Apocalypse, the
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  only show that reads the terms of service so you don't have to.
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  This week the theme is Autonomy without Accountability, because
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  while the robots are learning to do everything, nobody seems to
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  know who is actually responsible when the things do go sideways.
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  But hey, that's the problem for future us.
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  For now, let's dive in. Uber just announced it's going
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  full Skynet 20,000. Autonomous taxis are coming.
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  They're working with Lucid for the hardware and Nero for the
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  software. Because if there's one thing
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  better than relying on one unprofitable tech company, it's
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  relying on three. These robo taxis are gunning for
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  level 4 autonomy, which means no steering wheel, no driver, and
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  no one to yell at when they miss your stop because your street
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  name has A-IN it. Meanwhile, the US just passed
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  its first major national crypto legislation called the Genius
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  Act. Because nothing says we've
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  learned from the past like branding your crypto regulation
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  after the one thing that's never been associated with crypto
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  legislation. Genius.
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  It requires stable coins to be backed one to one with actual
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  dollars, which is great, but it doesn't require any consumer
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  protections, just classic. So it's like putting a seat belt
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  on a roller coaster that's still missing half of the track.
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  Honestly I think it's a great step.
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  Shout out to Dave Zacks over at Netflix.
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  They've officially used Gen. AI in production.
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  In the Argentine show El Atanata, they generated A
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  collapsing building scene 10 times faster than with
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  traditional VFX. Which means in 2026, your
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  favorite disaster movie may be written, acted, and destroyed
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  all by the same model. Is it art?
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  Is it progress? Or are we just feeding
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  generative AI so much content that it eventually remakes?
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  Love as blind as a hostage negotiation simulator.
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  And Speaking of AI behaving badly, Sam Altman says don't
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  trust ChatGPT with your sensitive data.
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  Love that. Nothing like ACEO telling you
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  not to trust his own product right after launching an agent
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  that can do your shopping, schedule your meetings, and sell
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  your data faster than you can say unsubscribe.
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  Meanwhile, the Perplexity CEO came out and warned Big Tech
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  will copy anything that's good. Which, yeah, welcome to Tuesday.
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  That's like warning a sandwich artist at Subway that people
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  might order sandwiches. In other news, AI has been
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  tricking people into booking vacations to places that don't
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  exist. So if you find yourself stuck in
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  Santorini, Montana waiting for a tour guide named ChatGPT, maybe
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  just check Google Street View next time.
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  I took me a minute to get through that.
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  And Mercedes-Benz now lets you use your in car camera to join
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  Microsoft team calls while driving.
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  Nothing says we value your safety like letting you deliver
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  quarterly results while changing lanes in the Audubon.
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  So to recap, the cars are driving themselves, the money is
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  being printed in code, the movies are AI hallucinations,
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  and your next team meeting might include a dashboard Cam.
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  Autonomy, definitely. Accountability, anyone?
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  Before we go, shout out to Cooler 89 who left us a spicy
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  five star review for the AI for Founders podcast, he says.
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  Finally, a show where founders talk AI without sound sounding
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  like they're trying to sell me a pyramid scheme made of GPU's.
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  Honestly, I feel sane. So if you love stories about the
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  humans still crazy enough to build this future, not just
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  survive it, check out the Code storypodcast@codestory.co.
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  Each episode, Noah Lab heart interview startup founders and
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  CT OS who took ideas from back of the napkin scribbles to
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  products that scale. It's raw, honest, and deeply
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  inspiring. Like the opposite of a fake AI
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  generated travel vlog. So hit up Code Story wherever
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  you get your podcast. That's Code story.co, the
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  podcast for builders, dreamers, and those who still believe in
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  debugging reality. I'm Ryan Estes from AI for
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  Founders, and this has been this week before the robot
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  apocalypse. Rate the pod, hug your humans,
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  and remember, if the bots come for your job, just ask them to
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  do your taxes first. See you next time.