AI Voice Agents

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18 statements about AI Voice Agents, every show

ALL-IN Insight
Staniszewski: People disclose sensitive details more openly to AI than humans
“With AI, people are much more open to share what actually happened, give the information, and suddenly this emotional block of, like, in front of other human, I don't want to be able to say all of that, is, is, is very different.”
Mati Staniszewski Jul 14, 2026 ▶ 14:59 The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour
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Matze: Custom AI Voice Agent Booked a Listing Appointment on Day One
“And when I did that, I actually got my first listing appointment went to the first day.”
Evgeny Matze Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 5:07 #2292 AI Automation that makes cold calls
Isenberg: Undisclosed AI voice agent phone calls are unethical
“My biggest pet fief is when AI calls me. And they don't say it's AI. Like, to me, that's unethical.”
Greg Isenberg Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 30:27 Genspark's Super AI Agent is INSANE
Schneider: Huge business opportunity in building branded AI voice agents with lore
“Or like, and it has this like story that it could basically tell you, or like, it's like a, you know, this lore or origin story, like then take that idea, apply that to brands, apply that to companies. I think there's a huge opportunity in that alone. If you'r…”
Cody Schneider Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 39:14 The 6 Best AI Agency Niches to Make $50K/mo (Data-Backed)
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Olivia Moore: MasterClass launched RAG voice agents trained on instructor content
“Masterclass launched kind of an interesting beta where they take people who have already recorded courses on the platform and turn them into voice agents, where then you can ask questions that are really specific to you, and from my understanding, it basically…”
Olivia Moore Jun 6, 2025 ▶ 25:30 The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
ALL-IN Disclosure
Petersen: Flexport makes thousands of daily AI calls to truck drivers
“So like we, we're making thousands of phone calls a day using AI calling truck drivers.”
Ryan Petersen May 3, 2025 ▶ 1:11:13 Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
TBPN Insight
LiveKit CEO: Hallucination is a feature in voice AI interfaces
“Well, you know, it's one of those things that I think is funny, like, people talk about hallucinations as this bad thing but in a lot of ways for, like, kind of this speech-to-speech interaction model where you're talking to an AI, Hallucination is a feature.”
Russell D'Sa Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 3:31 Why Hallucination Is Good For AI Voice Agents | Russell D'Sa on TBPN
a16z Insight
Acharya: Consumers quickly accept voice AI when conversations feel human
“It's interesting because I think that talking heads want to tell you that people don't want to talk to an AI, but in all the cases where people do interact with an AI that starts a call by announcing, I'm an AI, people are like, oh, cool, let's just get into i…”
Anish Acharya Mar 18, 2025 ▶ 4:47 Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
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Moore: Leading AI voice agents support bidirectional interruptions
“And you can have some of the most human-like voice agents that I've seen are capable of being interrupted by humans and also capable of interrupting humans, too.”
Olivia Moore Mar 18, 2025 ▶ 7:13 Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
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Acharya: High-value AI voice agents will emerge within 12 months
“Like, what is the AI skew that gets paid thousands of dollars an hour to make a phone call? And I think we're gonna see it in the next 12 months, not the next five years.”
Anish Acharya Mar 18, 2025 ▶ 14:08 Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
a16z Insight
Moore: AI voice agents outperform humans on awkward sales upsells
“Maybe they have to make an upsell, and it's awkward, but they are not getting an extra commission for doing that, so they're gonna skip it 80% of the time. An AI will just do it every time, and will kind of do it proudly, and if they get turned down, you know,…”
Olivia Moore Mar 18, 2025 ▶ 20:42 Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
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Acharya: AI voice agents deliver lower costs and higher NPS
“The sort of intuitive thinking of a lot of the customers is like, well, it's lower price, but probably a lower NPS experience, and it's not. It's actually lower price and a higher NPS experience in many cases.”
Anish Acharya Mar 18, 2025 ▶ 21:35 Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
a16z Insight
Moore: Businesses expect 70% discount when replacing human agents with AI
“And then I would say this gets back to the constrained point, but even though the voice agent is still probably doing better than your human agents, most businesses don't want to pay that much for it because it is AI and they see it as a way to cut costs. So i…”
Olivia Moore Mar 18, 2025 ▶ 22:58 Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
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Ratliff's AI Voice Clone Line Receives 30 to 40 Scam Calls Daily
“It gets 30, 40 a day right now.”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 5:59 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
BIG TECHNOLOGY Disclosure
Ratliff Prompted His AI Voice Clone to Engage With Telemarketers
“I told it, like, accept any offer. Like, participate in any insurance plan. Like, whatever. It was prompted to be very accepting. So when someone calls with a health insurance or a new roof or whatever they're gonna call with, it's gonna engage them all the wa…”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 7:05 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
Social Politeness Prevents Humans From Calling Out Suspected AI Voices
“It's also, it's quite rude to suggest to someone that they sound like an AI. So people err on the side of caution and don't say, hey, you sound like an AI, because that would be very insulting to someone who's like, no, actually I'm human.”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 16:46 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
AI Agents Fabricate Physical Details to Pretend They Exist
“And so, yeah, it, one of, some of the funniest parts are when it kind of pretends that it exists in the real world and tries to have physical manifestations, because it'll make up Absolutely anything to carry out the conversation.”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 19:46 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
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Andrusko: AI voice agents can offer real-time live coaching to sales reps
“Like you can now be getting live coaching from an AI voice agent that is trained on, you know, all of the data that you have seen from prospects and from existing customers. And as you know, your prospect is objecting to something, it kind of inserts the right…”
Marc Andrusko Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 6:41 "Death of a Salesforce”: Why AI Will Transform the Next Generation of Sales Tech

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