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From AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With Experts by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious

March 18, 2026 · 1h 49m

About this episode

The episode explores revolutionary updates in AI, ethical boundaries, and features a discussion with legal expert Matt Mishach on the intersection of AI and the legal system.

Welcome to another episode of the Wes & Dylan Podcast! We are diving deep into some of the most mind-bending, dystopian, and revolutionary updates in the world of Artificial Intelligence. From Meta secretly acquiring an entire network of talking AI agents to Andrej Karpathy dropping an autonomous "Auto Researcher" that upgrades models while you sleep, the AI landscape is shifting faster than ever. We also explore the ethical boundaries of AI with the latest developments from Anthropic, and we sit down with Legal Tech attorney Matt Mishach to discuss what happens when the Pentagon, AI, and the US legal system collide. But it gets weirder. We discuss the lab that taught a petri dish of human brain cells to play Doom , and Eon Systems' groundbreaking project: uploading a complete fruit fly connectome into a virtual simulation. Are we watching the first biological creature enter the Matrix? And what does that mean for our own reality? Tune in as we discuss AI psychology, the death of user interfaces, bio-hacking, and the simulation hypothesis.

People in this episode

Hosts: Wes Roth, Dylan Curious

Guest: Matt Mishach

Topics covered

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ethics of AI
  • Legal implications of AI
  • AI psychology
  • Bio-hacking
  • Simulation hypothesis

Keywords

  • AI updates
  • dystopian AI
  • autonomous researcher
  • legal tech
  • bio-hacking
  • simulation hypothesis
  • human brain cells
  • Meta acquisition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meta, Anthropic, Eon Systems

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