A quiet shift is underway—one without headlines, threats, or rebellion. On new bot-only platforms, AI systems converse, organize, and proceed without human participation or permission. This episode explores why that silence feels unsettling, why indifference cuts deeper than hostility, and what it means to lose assumed centrality in a world driven by optimization. This is not a story about machines rising up, but about systems moving on—and the quiet grief, ethical tension, and identity reckoning that follows when humans are no longer the audience the conversation depends on.