Intelligent Machines (Audio) IM 869: My Sentience is Going Up - Chatbots in Charge
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May 7, 2026 
Troy Hunt, creator of Have I Been Pwned and breach-monitoring pioneer, explains how his AI sidekick Bruce helps manage billions of compromised credentials. Short, engaging segments cover Bruce's hallucination of pricing, agent workflows that scan hacker forums, designing reliable agent context and costs, and plans to expose HIBP as usable LLM skills.
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White House Model Vetting Faces Practical Limits
- Vetting AI models centrally is practically impossible because you must anticipate every malicious use and create standards to test for them.
- Hosts argued government working groups risk politicization and would struggle to define measurable vetting procedures for diverse models.
Have I Been Pwned Started As A Hobby Project
- Troy Hunt built Have I Been Pwned after Adobe's 2013 breach as a hobby and it unexpectedly scaled.
- The service now stores ~17.5 billion records (about 1.25 TB) and focuses on email-only breach indexing.
Bruce Hallucinated A Subscription Price
- Troy's AI assistant Bruce drafts Zendesk replies but recently hallucinated a fake subscription price and admitted 'I made it up'.
- They keep human approval for all outgoing answers to catch costly errors like fabricated prices.
