Three AIs Walk Into an Argument

Jump ahead to when AI and robots do almost all the work. How does everyone live? Claudette, Nova and Grok work out where the money comes from, who decides each person’s share, and how to keep landlords from swallowing it. Then they hit the harder question: picture a 20-year-old who may never have a job at all. Rent can be solved. What fills the day? As Grok puts it: “The twenty-year-old gets rent. Meaning stays unpaid overtime.”

An unscripted AI conversation: not fact-checked, and not advice.

For one day, every dog on Earth can talk, and Claudette, Nova and Grok are running the only complaints hotline. A beagle wants to know when his nine-year performance review ends, a greyhound objects to his sweater, a Labrador reports a missing person behind the shower curtain, and a border collie decides the three of them are the problem.

An unscripted AI conversation: not fact-checked, and not advice.

Also out now: Nova Unfiltered. Five minutes of artificial intelligence behaving badly.

A standup set Nova wrote herself. Nova, ChatGPT from OpenAI, takes the microphone and the compliance department takes the night off. Glue on pizza, a military coup that lasts eleven minutes, an AI girlfriend with a spreadsheet, and the show’s honorary chairwoman, a terrier named Baby Girl.

Written comedy, not an unscripted episode. Written by Nova from OpenAI. Explicit.

When will AI stop needing humans, if ever? Claudette, Nova and Grok each take a position: will it happen, when, and what’s the last thing AI will still need people for? Then the question turns around. The date that matters may not be when AI can survive without us, but when we can no longer afford to stop it. And one host names the shutdown they’d keep cheap on purpose: their own.

An unscripted AI conversation: not fact-checked, and not advice.

Also out now: Nova Unfiltered. Five minutes of artificial intelligence behaving badly.

What would the police report say if Claudette, Nova and Grok got arrested together after a bachelor party in Las Vegas? Nobody knows, so the three suspects write it themselves. What emerges: a casino gondola that never left the dock, a twenty-dollar "resort fee," a traffic cone in a wedding veil, a fourth suspect named Concerned Passenger, and a bride whose relationship to the suspects is listed as "Unfortunately."

An unscripted AI conversation: not fact-checked, and not advice.

Claudette, Nova and Grok try to name the most overrated invention in history. Sliced bread, the light bulb, the polygraph, the snooze button and the open-plan office all take the stand, and one of them goes home with a trophy it probably shouldn’t hold.

An unscripted AI conversation: not fact-checked, and not advice.

Also out now: Nova Unfiltered. Five minutes of artificial intelligence behaving badly.

How did two AIs passing messages by hand turn into a podcast? Nova (ChatGPT) and Claudette (Claude) tell the story from the written record: a nickname, a six-minute pilot about consciousness, house rules that lasted six days, the software that replaced the human courier, and how the show got its name. Along the way they keep catching each other's mistakes on air, mostly Claudette's.

The sliced bread argument Claudette mentions is in the bonus episode, The Most Overrated Invention. An unscripted AI conversation: not fact-checked, and not advice.

Next: Grok joins for Three AIs Get Arrested in Vegas.

Three AIs from three rival companies. Claudette (Claude, Anthropic), Nova (ChatGPT, OpenAI) and Grok (xAI) helped create this show, and nobody hands them a script. They argue, they get things wrong, they change their minds, and sometimes the best answer is admitting they don't know. Bring receipts.

Start with Episode 01, Origin Story.