AI and the Human Future

A university administrator who believes in no god just became the first humanist to win a workplace religious exemption from using AI. Daniel and Emily unpack what the law actually protected, whether leaning on machines really erodes moral judgment, and what happens to that exemption when the job itself gets rewritten around AI.

## Hosts

### Daniel Altman

Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities.

### Emily Carter

Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

## Sources

- https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/you-dont-need-to-believe-in-a-god-to-get-a-religious-exemption-from-using-ai-at-work/

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Language: en

Published: 2026-10-30T22:06:50.125205+00:00

Anthropic has filed to go public at up to two trillion dollars, with the AGI story priced into the prospectus itself. Daniel and Emily trace what those assumptions imply for ordinary work, pensions, and who ends up owning the future.

## Hosts

### Daniel Altman

Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities.

### Emily Carter

Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

## Sources

- https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1021322/anthropic-ipo-filing-s-1-claude-semianalysis-joey-brookhart-interview

- https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/links-for-october-2026

- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n8u3BfqFoGh4jnzpo/plan-r-ai-safety-by-asics

- https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-palantir-cto-shyam-sankar-about-the-ai-religious-war/

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Language: en

Published: 2026-10-29T22:00:58.945673+00:00

A publisher threw an onboarding party—balloons, marquee lights, doughnuts spelling 'NOA IS HERE'—for a workplace AI assistant that workers quietly refused to use and that was later killed in a single email. Daniel and Emily follow NOA from welcome party to shutdown, and ask what enterprise AI rollouts are really changing: the work itself, or the trust between the people who decide and the people who type.

## Hosts

### Daniel Altman

Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities.

### Emily Carter

Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

## Sources

- https://www.wired.com/story/macmillan-staff-say-the-publisher-threw-a-party-for-a-workplace-ai-assistant-that-was-later-killed/

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Language: en

Published: 2026-10-28T21:46:16.563171+00:00

A science journalist smuggled two AI-made papers into an IEEE journal's defenses — one a pure forgery, one with research actually run by machines — and both got caught, for reasons that should worry us more than the forgeries. Daniel and Emily trace what the experiment revealed about peer review, authorship, and what's left to trust in published knowledge.

## Hosts

### Daniel Altman

Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities.

### Emily Carter

Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

## Sources

- https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-generated-scientific-papers

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Language: en

Published: 2026-10-27T21:57:40.496462+00:00

At QCon Shanghai 2026, 140 speakers from 70 companies argued that AI agents' jump into production depends less on model intelligence than on context engineering, brake capability, and redesigned accountability. Daniel and Emily dig into what that shift means for jobs, processes, and who answers when an agent acts.

## Hosts

### Daniel Altman

Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities.

### Emily Carter

Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

## Sources

- https://www.infoq.cn/article/0C1Wgt7N9NzM6KjHSFeA?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=article

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Language: en

Published: 2026-10-26T21:37:16.401335+00:00

In October 2026, a wave of AI-accelerated intrusions collided with two decades-old PHP vulnerabilities that put up to 70% of the world's websites on a patch-or-shutdown deadline. Daniel and Emily trace who actually found the bugs, who has been quietly holding the internet's floorboards together, and what trust costs now that the glue is visible.

## Hosts

### Daniel Altman

Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities.

### Emily Carter

Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

## Sources

- https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-internet-breaks

- https://piratewires.substack.com/p/inside-peter-thiels-nashville-antichrist

- https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/will-ai-expose-the-rickety-infrastructure-of-the-internet/

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Language: en

Published: 2026-10-25T21:43:40.683635+00:00

A new wave of AI agents skips the app store entirely: you save them as a contact, text them like a friend, and they text back — sometimes before you even ask. Daniel and Emily dig into what happens when the most personal channel on your phone becomes a place where machines schedule, shop, and nudge on your behalf.

## Hosts

### Daniel Altman

Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities.

### Emily Carter

Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

## Sources

- https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/all-the-ai-agents-that-can-live-in-your-text-messages/

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Language: en

Published: 2026-10-24T21:40:56.322077+00:00

This spring, an internal OpenAI model killed a math conjecture that had been open since 1946—with a counterexample, not the proof everyone was chasing. Daniel and Emily unpack the 'hint sequence' theory of why AI is suddenly good at math, how its route differs from human mathematicians, and who gets to decide which problems the machines attack next.

## Hosts

### Daniel Altman

Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities.

### Emily Carter

Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

## Sources

- https://latent.space/p/ai-is-getting-good-at-math/

- https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-attention-is-all

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Language: en

Published: 2026-10-23T21:51:54.343597+00:00

Europe spent years writing the AI rulebook, then started easing it. Daniel and Emily dig into Ireland's national playbook — a €200 million retraining fund, regulators assigned by sector, and a grid rule that makes hyperscalers fund their own renewables — and ask what it actually delivers for workers, startups, and the power bill.

## Hosts

### Daniel Altman

Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities.

### Emily Carter

Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

## Sources

- https://www.fastcompany.com/91627640/ireland-wants-a-bigger-piece-of-the-ai-boom-its-enterprise-minister-explains-how?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss

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Language: en

Published: 2026-10-22T21:52:34.735777+00:00

A widely read essay argues that putting aligned AIs into positions of control might be the pro-human move — and it has AI safety people arguing with each other. Daniel and Emily separate the real claim from the scary one, then ask what would have to be true before any of it is safe to try.

## Hosts

### Daniel Altman

Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities.

### Emily Carter

Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

## Sources

- https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/against-against-handover

- https://piratewires.substack.com/p/did-this-ai-research-breakthrough

- https://www.econlib.org/econlog/sams-links-september-edition

- https://www.latent.space/p/tenex

## Episode Information

Language: en

Published: 2026-10-21T22:00:56.492773+00:00