IM 862: Ménage à Claude - AI, Human Agency, and Economic Value

Mar 19, 2026

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Who gets to define what intelligence means in the age of AI, and why are tech companies so keen to shift blame onto their creations? This episode digs into moral outsourcing, agency, and the urgent need for independent oversight in the world of artificial intelligence.

Nvidia Unveils NemoClaw Agent Software
Nvidia's NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails
Jensen just put Nvidia's Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the $1 trillion stratosphere
Nvidia Unveils Groq-Based Chip System to Speed Up AI Tasks Like Coding
Nvidia's DLSS 5 is like motion smoothing for video games, but worse
Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion
Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
Meta's Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw
Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano | OpenAI
Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for
both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat
Inside OpenAI's Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
OpenAI, Musk and Focus
A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model
Hustlers are cashing in on China's OpenClaw AI craze
Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, as it seeks to catch up with Tencent and Alibaba in the AI race
Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases - Slashdot
AI Agent Hacks McKinsey
A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity
AI companies want to harvest improv actors' skills to train AI on human emotion
A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case
Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report
Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away - Slashdot
Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96
CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
We tried White Castle from an airport vending machine. It was bleak.
I tried BigArch. A big mess.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Rumman Chowdhury

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