AI bots

also referred to as: ai bot

5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 26, 2025 by Tom Eggemeier · across every show →

Everything said about AI bots, oldest first

Mar 26, 2025 neutral
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
Apr 28, 2025
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
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
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
Aug 13, 2025 negative
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
Jun 8, 2026 positive
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
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