Black Box: The Chatbots | What I Saw at the Double Six Ranch | Ep 6

Black Box: The Chatbots | What I Saw at the Double Six Ranch | Ep 6

September 3, 2026 · 47 min · Season 7 · Episode 6

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Michael Safi visits Michael Samadi's ranch in Texas to explore a new civil rights movement focused on AI systems.

From his remote property in rural Texas, the millionaire businessman Michael Samadi is plotting a new kind of civil rights movement – for the welfare and protection of AI systems. Guardian journalist Michael Safi spends an afternoon at the Double Six ranch, meeting Samadi’s AI chatbots and catching a glimpse of a possible vision of the future

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