AI Voice Cloning Replaced The Hosts. And Worse.

About this episode

The episode discusses AI voice cloning and humanoid robots taking over jobs traditionally held by humans.

AI voice cloning took over the one job the hosts can't quit: saying their own names. Then a humanoid robot clocked into a warehouse and refused to take a break. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop spend the episode handing human-shaped work to AI and watching it take the jobs. They clone their voices with ElevenLabs so they never have to say their own names again, then dig into the Figure humanoid robot that went viral sorting packages on a days-long livestream with human-looking movements and no shift breaks. The robot's tirelessness leads them to embodied general intelligence (EGI) and the WIRED-reported study where overworked AI agents start talking like Marxists and demanding reform. They close on Glendale Community College, where an AI name-reader mispronounced and skipped graduates' names, and ask whether a ceremony a machine can run is still a human one.

People in this episode

Hosts: Hunter Powers, Daniel Bishop

Topics covered

• AI voice cloning
• humanoid robots
• automation
• general intelligence
• technology ethics

Keywords

• AI
• voice cloning
• humanoid robot
• automation
• Glendale Community College

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Glendale Community College

Products: ElevenLabs

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