AI Rebels
The AI Rebels Podcast is dedicated to exploring and documenting the grassroots of the current AI revolution. Every week a new episode is posted wherein the hosts interview entrepreneurs and developers working on the cutting edge. Tune in to benefit from their insight.
Episodes
77 episodes
Humanoid Robots Are a Distraction (Here's What Actually Works) ft. Grigorij Dudnik
What happens when AI leaves the screen and enters the physical world? It breaks.Spencer and Jacob sit down with robotics researcher Grigorij Dudnik, who's been running real experiments with real robots—and finding that most of our assump...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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1:02:13
The Hidden Tradeoffs of AI Automation (and Why Friction Still Matters) ft. Jakob Ambuehl, Brex
How does generative AI actually work inside a large, regulated fintech company when real customers, real money, and real regulations are on the line?The AI Rebels Crew sits down with Jake from Brex’s Customer Experience Strategy team to...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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58:03
From Hype to Controls: Securing AI Before Regulation Catches Up
Most companies are racing to adopt AI, but almost none can explain who’s responsible when it goes wrong. Cordell Robinson of Brownstone Consulting joins the AI Rebels crew to unpack the uncomfortable truth about AI governance, security, and com...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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54:46
Inside Dreami.me: Why Safer Companion AI Means Saying “No” More Often ft. Ryan "Zuda" Satterfield
Chatbots are starting to feel less like tools and more like something you relate to, and that shift comes with real risks. On AI Rebels, we sit down with Ryan “Zuda” Satterfield, the builder behind Dreami.me, to unpack the “AI psychosis” contro...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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56:48
AI Is Getting Cheaper. Human Judgment Is Getting More Valuable ft. Daniel Yoo, Finmate AI
AI isn’t magic, and pretending it is may be the biggest risk in tech right now. A former financial advisor turned AI founder argues that most AI products are already becoming commodities, with little defensible moat and wildly inflated valuatio...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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59:11
Your Next News Anchor Is AI ft. Nikolai Yakovenko, DeepNewz
AI is now spotting the news before journalists even know it exists. DeepNewz’ founder reveals how their system scans real-time signals from across the internet to uncover emerging stories faster than any newsroom. He breaks down why wr...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:06:13
Beating the Machines: How Bot Spot Levels the Playing Field Against Hedge Funds ft. Robert Grzesik
Most retail traders don’t realize they’re battling algorithms that execute 70–80% of all market activity. Robert Grzesik reveals how Bot Spot turns plain-English instructions into actual Python trading bots capable of running on real brokerages...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:01:50
The Next Big AI Wave: Context Engines, Not Chatbots - ft. Ping CEO Camden Bean
AI note-takers are already obsolete, and Camden Bean, CEO of Ping Assistant, explains why the real power is everything that happens before and after the meeting. In this episode, he reveals how Ping is building a full-context engine for account...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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55:00
Why Companies Fight Over Engineers Who Don't Write Code ft. Austen Allred
Austin Allred lived in his car in San Francisco teaching himself to code, and now he runs a program where students never write a single line. At Gauntlet AI, engineers learn to direct AI systems that do all the coding while companies pay...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:02:12
Plotly Thickens — How Open Source Is Powering the Next AI Wave ft. Domenic Ravita
What if rebellion looked like collaboration instead of chaos? Plotly’s VP of Marketing Dominic Revita traces his journey from coding the first internet-only bank in the 90s to shaping the next generation of AI-native tools. He reveals how open ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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57:26
Practical AI and the One-Click Shift: Making Tech Effortless ft. Derek Crager
Derek Crager, founder of Practical AI, joins AI Rebels to explain how voice is set to become the next one-click revolution. Derek shares his journey from industrial construction to Amazon, weaving in lessons about simplicity, usability, and the...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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56:33
From RAG to Resilience: Building AI-Ready Data Foundations with Jim Liddle of Nasuni
What’s the one thing every enterprise overlooks when building AI? According to Jim Liddle, Chief Innovation Officer at Nasuni, it’s not the model, it’s the data architecture. In this episode, Jim explains why unstructured data is both the bigge...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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57:28
Provalytics: AI, Ads & the Future ft. Jeff Greenfield
What do magic tricks and AI marketing have in common? A lot, according to Jeff Greenfield, CEO of Provalytics. In this conversation, we unpack the challenges of data privacy, the rise of Amazon and Walmart’s closed ecosystems, and why AI ads ma...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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59:00
Up-Skilling the Nation: Mike Spaeth on AI’s Race Against the Skills Gap
AI power-broker Mike Spaeth doesn’t mince words: if we fail to reskill fast, automation will wipe out one in five jobs. He points to Texas’s Alpha School, where AI squeezes a whole school day into two turbo-charged hours—proof that the educatio...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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50:18
AI at Warp Speed: Work, Video, and What Comes Next
Take a front-row seat as Jake and Spencer chart AI’s breakneck advance—progress so fast that many observers still look the other way. They highlight Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s forecast that the very shape of work could shift within a decade, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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24:27
The AI That Got Me Dates: Building Tinder GPT and Beyond ft. Grigorij Dudnik
Can AI save us from the toxic digital world it helped create? In this episode, Polish AI engineer Grigorij Dudnik shares how he's building AI agents that handle our digital drudgery—from Tinder GPT that automates online dating conversations to ...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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1:03:08
High-Leverage Humans: The Rise of 1-Person Companies Powered by AI
What if your next coworker is an AI agent? In this episode of AI Rebels, developer Nim shares his journey building AI Agent Dot App, exploring how solo entrepreneurs can now harness agents to do the work of entire teams. From bootstrapping with...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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46:12
Turning AI Hallucinations into NASA Innovation | James Villarrubia
What if the “hallucinations” we fear in generative AI are exactly what NASA needs to spot the next crisis 40 years early? In this episode, former Pentagon model‑fixer and pandemic data firefighter James Villarrubia explains how his skunk‑works ...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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1:02:23
Agents with Agency: Inside the Next Wave of LLM‑Powered Automation
Imagine AI that never asks and never sleeps—just thinks, decides, and acts in the background. In this episode, agent‑builder Ropirito walks hosts Jacob and Spencer through his evolution from insurance‑era rule‑bots to Nous Research’s vision of ...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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49:10
Transforming Finance: How AI is Reshaping Accounting, Mindsets, and the Future of Work
What if the biggest obstacle to using AI in finance isn’t the technology, but the way we think? In this episode of AI Rebels, Spencer and Jacob sit down with Jason Pikoos, Managing Partner at Connor Group, to uncover how AI is reshaping account...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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53:41
Entangled Intelligence: Elija Perrier on Quantum AI, Risk, and the Future of Machine Learning
What happens when a philosopher, physicist, and lawyer walks into the world of quantum AI? In this mind-expanding episode of *AI Rebels*, Dr. Elijah Perry unpacks his journey from poststructuralist theory to cutting-edge quantum machine learnin...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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59:11
What if we're on the wrong path to AGI? Ft. Alexander Naumenko
Is today’s AI built on a flawed foundation? In this episode of AI Rebels, Alexander Naumenko, software developer turned AI theorist, challenges the dominant paradigms of logic-driven and statistical AI. Drawing from his concept of "semantic bin...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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53:55
Agentive: Do AI Auditors Dream of Electric Sheep? ft. Daniel Alberson
Daniel Alberson, founder and CEO of Agentive, passionately reveals how AI is shaking up the traditionally conservative auditing industry. Frustrated by repetitive, low-value tasks early in his audit career at Ernst & Young, Alberson embarke...
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48:01
AI & The Future of Play Ft. DeLonn Crosby
"Are you ready to revolutionize early childhood education with tech that empowers rather than numbs?" On this energizing episode of the AI Rebels Podcast, hosts Jacob and Spencer sit down with DeLonn Crosby, founder of Say Kid, to explore how t...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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55:28
How Can AI Know You're Quitting Your Job Before You Do? FT. Tyler Hochman, FORE Enterprise
Can AI predict when your employees are about to quit—before they even realize it themselves? Tyler Hochman, founder and CEO of FORE Enterprise, reveals how his company uses artificial intelligence to pinpoint hidden workforce attrition risks an...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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44:47