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.”
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…”
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?…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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?”
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.”
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…”
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…”
Horowitz: AI bot marketing generated a $300M meme coin valuation
“All generated by the marketing of an AI bot.”
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.”
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 …”
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.”
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.”
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: 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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”