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AI agents are moving from demos to real workplaces, but what actually happens when they run a company? In this episode, journalist Evan Ratliff, host of Shell Game, joins Chris to discuss his immersive journalism experiment building a real startup staffed almost entirely by AI agents. They explore how AI agents behave as coworkers, how humans react when interacting with them, and where ethical and workplace boundaries begin to break down.
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- 0:00Welcome to Practical AI
- 0:48Meet Evan
- 6:10First impressions
- 12:21Familiarity
- 14:50Starting a company
- 16:42Why THIS approach?
- 23:15Feature or bug?
- 29:15Most harmful examples
- 35:48Conflict between agents
- 38:51Including the angry people
- 43:33The future question
- 48:00Outro