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Can an AI agent be your CEO? (Journalist Evan Ratliff) | Pioneers of AI

About Evan

  • Award-winning investigative journalist and bestselling author of The Mastermind
  • Cofounded The Atavist Magazine, Pop-Up Magazine, and the Longform Podcast
  • Hosted hit podcasts Shell Game and Persona: The French Deception
  • National Magazine Award winner; two-time finalist and two-time Emmy nominee
  • Won the Independent Media Initiative Award; cohosted a Time 100 Best Podcast

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Business headlines scream about when we’ll see a one-person “unicorn” company, thanks to AI. Journalist Evan Ratliff put this to the test in the second season of his podcast Shell Game. A former start-up founder, Evan created a company, HurumoAI, where he is the only human. Even his two co-founders are bots. As Evan built his start-up with AI agents, he explored deeper questions of living and working alongside AI, like how and why he gave them certain personalities, and moments of feeling scared, annoyed, or even proud of them. Evan (and his accidentally hilarious AI CEO Kyle Law) join Pioneers of AI to share lessons for the near future.

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