In this episode, I sit down with Joe Holmes to talk about what people get wrong about artificial intelligence, how AI agents are changing work, and why the future of AI is going to be more personal, more powerful, and much stranger than most people realize.

Learn more from Joe:Building AI Agents for Beginners: https://www.edx.org/learn/artificial-intelligence/davidson-college-building-ai-agents-for-beginners

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-holmes-ai-ml/

Website: https://joeholmes.devDevpost

Learning Hackathon:https://learn-ai.devpost.com/

Resources mentioned:Janus’s Simulators essay:https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulators

Blog post with Tetraspace’s famous shoggoth cartoon:https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/janus-simulatorsAdversarial poetry paper:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304