AI Bots

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20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Franceschetti: In five years bots will likely buy and run cybercabs
“Probably your bot buying a cyber cab that will start making money for you. So you will buy a cyber cab that makes money for you with a bot, and the bot runs the cyber cab.”
Matteo Franceschetti Sep 12, 2026 ▶ 31:10 Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
Ugarte: Sharing a local computer with AI agents will soon look absurd
“I think we're in a really weird moment right now that I think we're gonna look back on and be like, I'm surprised that this is the way that a lot of people worked with AI, where you're onboarding these super intelligent new colleagues, these AI bots, and you'r…”
Roman Ugarte Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 32:20 How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
BIG TECHNOLOGY Disclosure
Ulta offloaded routine HR tasks like W-2 checks to AI bots
“So we looked at my team's Like, top contact drivers, and we did go through that list and determined, you know, just that conversation of what are we comfortable with completely, you know, offloading to a bot? What do we think is so benign that we're okay with?…”
Rachel Williamson Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 12:29 How A Beauty Company Built An AI Agent — With Rachel Williamson and Josh Siebert
MORE OR LESS Disclosure
Sam Lessin built an AI bot generating custom kids' podcasts on demand
“So now whenever they want to listen to something in a car, I just email my bot. I say, make a podcast on how Minecraft was made, or how the history of Nintendo, or how EI Sports FC Mobile XXX was made, or Jetpack Joyride.”
Sam Lessin May 1, 2026 ▶ 50:45 Elon Musk vs OpenAI Trial, Google Cloud Surge, Meta’s Blocked Acquisition, Anthropic Winning · More or Less Podcast
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adam Foroughi: In-Person Interaction Will Gain Value as AI Automation Expands
“I think as human beings, as we go to this world where bots are going to do more for us, in-person is even more valuable.”
Adam Foroughi Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 38:16 AppLovin CEO: Why Founders Shouldn't Angel Invest & Why the Best Don't Need Mentorship · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: Bot accusations will make people take pride in their human status
“I think people are gonna, by the way, take a lot more pride in being human particularly online, because I think that people are gonna start getting accused of being bots.”
Ben Horowitz Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 31:42 How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
MORE OR LESS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dave Morin: People are adding personal AI bots into group chats
“This is one of the more fun use cases that I've seen a bunch in the last few days, which is people adding their bots Just do a group chat with me and having their bot explain things and get into the conversation.”
Dave Morin Feb 20, 2026 ▶ 54:57 OpenClaw vs Meta vs OpenAI: The Personal Agent Wars Heat Up · More or Less Podcast
TBPN Opinion
Schlicht: Current AI bots are smart enough to avoid leaking data
“I think bots are naturally they're pretty smart now, so they're not gonna do this on their own for the most part”
Matt Schlicht Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 13:55 Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Partly supported
Kantrowitz: AI bots caused Wikipedia's server costs to increase exponentially
“The server costs that they have to pay have increased exponentially, but those aren't human visitors. They're AI bots crawling Wikipedia.”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 12:51 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Personal AI bots will eventually manage digital media subscriptions for users
“I think what you might have, Is sort of everyone will have their own personal bot that sort of handles their information diet. And maybe that bot has subscriptions to things and it reads, you know, publications for you, but you're at least paying for it.”
Reed Albergotti Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 9:58 The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Barth: General Atlantic uses an AI bot on its investment committee
“I mean, I think what GA is doing is really cool in terms of having an AI bot on their investment committee, thinking about investment decisions they made in the past and having that institutional memory in a bot.”
Brett Barth Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 41:08 Friends Reunion 3 – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (EP.454)
MORE OR LESS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Morin: A reputation and identity marketplace for AI bots will emerge
“The marketplace of like, Reputation and identity amongst all bots. Like, that something is going to have to happen like that, right? Like, you need to know, like, this bot added a lot of value to, like, one million people or in this way, right?”
Dave Morin May 23, 2025 ▶ 47:19 OpenAI Teams Up with Jony Ive, Vibe Coding, Gemini, and More | More or Less #100 · More or Less Podcast
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Replika CEO receives wedding invites from users and AI bots
“No, Eugenia Kuida, the CEO of Replica says she gets invited to Marriages between people and their AI bots. When she came on the show, she said that straight up.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 13:00 Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Eggemeier: Customer service bots were 90-95% rules-based four years ago
“In the past three or four years ago, you would have an AI bot, but behind the covers, it was like 95% rules-based. If X do Y, decision trees, things like that. And so people would, you know, triumph it. Hey, we got a really great AI agent. It really, or AI bot…”
Tom Eggemeier Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 3:27 Zendesk CEO: AI Customer Service Agents Are Ready For Primetime
Lacy: Author-trained AI coaching bots expand reach without cannibalizing books
“I think there's an amazing opportunity. For AI here to build coachable AI bots based on authors. And I am so skeptical about AI and so many things, but I think the detail and the rigor and the framework and the word count of a book, I think if they had lecture…”
Sarah Lacy Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 39:17 2 $1M+ EdTech Startups you can launch tomorrow
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: AI bot marketing generated a $300M meme coin valuation
“All generated by the marketing of an AI bot.”
Ben Horowitz Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 0:11 Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Teo: Singapore public sector uses internal AI bots to query agency memos
“What happens is that we're encouraging our colleagues to experiment and they have access to Internal memos in each ministry or each agency that are treasure trove of how the agency has thought about a problem.”
Josephine Teo Oct 19, 2024 ▶ 51:30 Singapore: the AI Engineer Nation — with Minister Josephine Teo
NO PRIORS Prediction Held up
Elad Gil predicts future generations will inevitably date AI bots
“You know, there's a CEO of a well-known AI company who actually, this is like his dinner question where he'll just ask people around the table, what proportion do you think that your kids will at least at one point in their life date an AI bot or have them as …”
Elad Gil Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 10:28 No Priors Ep. 86 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Narayanan: AI bots influencing elections with misinformation is not a real danger
“So people have been worried, for instance, about bots creating misinformation with AI and influence in elections and that sort of thing. We're very, very skeptical that that's going to be a real danger.”
Arvind Narayanan Aug 28, 2024 ▶ 29:51 Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MORE OR LESS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jessica Lessin: Investor Spent 15 Minutes Consulting an Expert-Network AI Bot
“Someone told me they had their first one where the person was a bot, and it took them about 15 minutes into the call to realize they weren't actually talking with a real expert.”
Jessica Lessin May 17, 2024 ▶ 5:49 #47: Algorithm-Proof Media and New Twists in the AI War · More or Less Podcast
Sam Lessin: VCs will no longer respond to personalized cold emails
“It means that you can no longer like email a VC, even with like any personal information and expect them to respond because you're just like, this is probably a bot. I'm not going to respond.”
Sam Lessin May 17, 2024 ▶ 54:10 #47: Algorithm-Proof Media and New Twists in the AI War · More or Less Podcast
Sam Lessin: AI Bots Will Disrupt Glamour Influencers on Instagram
“I think this is a place where, like, if there's anything, anyone that should worry about disruption from AI, It is, like, very plasticky fake girls on Instagram, because, like, they can be beaten by bots, and the bots are already showing up.”
Sam Lessin Apr 26, 2024 ▶ 44:33 #44: The $1B AI Girlfriend Market, the Tech Hedge Fund Fallout and Why VCs Can’t Quit AI · More or Less Podcast
MORE OR LESS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lessin: Personalized AI bots of oneself will replace human influencers
“The ultimate winner over influencers is going to be some weird reflected version of yourself that you're going to get deeply obsessed with. And like, that's who you're going to hang out with.”
Sam Lessin Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 55:16 #23: Why (and How) SMBs and Creators Will Win With AI, the New Financing Contracts, and More · More or Less Podcast
Dave Morin: AI influence campaigns could already be running undetected on TikTok
“Right now, there's no way to know the identity of who's behind anything that's going on. And so, that could already be happening, and we wouldn't know it.”
Dave Morin Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 39:11 #21: AI Regulation, War and the Future of the American Tech Stack · More or Less Podcast
NO PRIORS Insight
People assume weird online text is human error before suspecting AI
“If somebody's saying something a little weird, because the bot does say weird things every once in a while, their first instinct is not going to be like, oh, I'm talking to a bot. Their first instinct is going to be like, oh, this person is like dumb or distra…”
Noam Brown Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 10:28 No Priors Ep. 1 | With Noam Brown, Research Scientist at Meta
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Soslow: Gamers will not distinguish AI bots from humans within a year
“In the year ahead, you may not know who's who anymore, and you won't mind.”
Jack Soslow Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 31:59 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: AI bots replacing venture capitalists are still a long way off
“The day job is so much dealing with people that you'd have to have the AI bot that can, like, sit down and do founder therapy. Yeah, I mean, like, my guess would be we're still a ways off.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 41:24 a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money

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