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// EP 004·aired October 5, 2026

Your AI Employee Has Your Keys

In seven weeks, xAI, Meta and OpenAI each launched an AI employee that signs into your accounts and keeps working after you close the app. Whether it helps you or hurts you is decided by its keys, not its model.

chapters

  1. 0:00Nine seconds
  2. 0:26The keys, not the model
  3. 1:361. A chatbot with keys
  4. 2:292. Three doors, two badges
  5. 4:483. Words aren't locks
  6. 7:234. The price of a refund
  7. 8:385. Probation
  8. 10:59The drawer

credits

Music

Mixkit Stock Music Free License

  • Moon Walk by Eugenio Mininni
  • Xceed Thru Johann by Eugenio Mininni
  • Vastness by Andrew Ev
  • Miss You by Eugenio Mininni
  • Piano Reflections by Ahjay Stelino
  • Coffee or Tea by Michael Ramir C.

Photos

Wikimedia Commons

  • Briefzentrum Härkingen by Hadi (CC0)
  • "Bright and spacious hallway in a modern office" by Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0 source ↗
  • Callcentre by Petiatil (public domain)
  • Laptop on desk by Freddie Marriage (CC0)
  • Round analog clock by Eder Pozo Pérez (CC0)
  • Meta Platforms Headquarters by LPS.1 (CC0)

Pictures marked ILLUSTRATION are illustrations, not footage of the events. Logos identify the companies reported on.

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