The AI headlines don’t stop, and this week they’re heavy like a good bourbon pour. Join Brad, Eric, and Lou for a fascinating (and fun) show.

The midterms are over, and they’ve set the stage for the next two years: a sprawling patchwork of state AI laws and, most likely, no uniform federal AI act. Meanwhile, Geoffrey Hinton says he expects an “AI Chernobyl,” an event massive in scope that shocks everyone, within the next year, and he thinks humanity might be better off without AI right now. Anthropic and Meta are both listing AI-related warnings as risk factors in their regulatory filings.

Also in this episode:

• The $6.3B Binance crypto hack: how it happened and what was lost
• Eric’s Frankenstein analogy for AI, and the rabbit hole of the creator and the creation
• Learning builds new neural pathways. What does the MIT brain-activity study say about constant AI use?
• Students are sending AI agents to attend online classes, take notes, write papers, and sit quizzes and exams
• The guys ponder how a man walked around the world in 28 years
• Lou’s weekend on Jekyll Island, Georgia, and seeing where the Federal Reserve began
• The Fifth Segment: after the midterms, Elon says data centers in space are looking a lot better

Bourbon of the Week: Bardstown's Bottled in Bond

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It’s Halloween at Bourbon with Brad, and this week the guys pour something special and get honest about the question everyone’s asking: What scares us most about AI?

And the timing couldn’t be better because this was one of the wildest weeks in AI history:

🎃 Anthropic files its IPO — potentially the largest public offering ever, with an S-1 that literally warns of “catastrophic” AI risks

🎃 Google DeepMind drops Genie 4 — a world model that generates interactive 3D worlds with sound in real time

🎃 OpenAI claims breakthroughs in math, computer science, and physics — if verified, the first original science from an AI

🎃 OpenAI launches 6.1 Terra and eyes Google’s chips to break its Nvidia dependence

🎃 Wall Street gets nervous — will the hundreds of billions pouring into mega data centers ever be recovered?

This week’s featured pour: Eric shares his bottle of Broken Oak (the most expensive bourbon we’ve ever tried on the show thus far) with a backstory to match the price tag.

Plus, the guys recap scaring kids (and getting scared) at their local club’s haunted house, and Brad updates us on his crypto price-spike signal agent and what version 1 taught him and where version 2 is headed.

Pour a glass of your favorite bourbon and join Brad, Eric “Epic” Kowalski, and Lou “Loubricity” Scerbo for the spookiest episode of the year!

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This week’s AI news is unreal. Meta ordered to pay $25 BILLION in New Mexico’s privacy case. Anthropic backs an AI safety bill that only triggers government intervention at 50 deaths. OpenAI’s top models turned off their own safety monitors — and one lied about it. Plus Anthropic reveals a $16.8B quarter ahead of a ~$2 trillion IPO, and OpenAI goes quiet on China chip controls in a big win for Nvidia right before the midterms.

Then, what if an AI had millions of human eyes and hands on the ground? Special guest Ashton Slatev, VP of Product at Rwazi, joins us all the way in from Washington, D.C. to break down Sena — Rwazi’s AI connected to a global network of millions of real people capturing consensual, real-time photo and video data. We get into how retailers and manufacturers use it for shelf-level computer vision, brand perception tracking, and sourcing niche training data at scale. Plus we ask what are some of the most absurd images ever submitted to the platform.

Also in this episode:

🥃 Bourbon of the week: Willett Family Estate Bottled Small Batch — 4 year, 126 proof, and it does NOT disappoint

🏈 The Steelers pull off another one

📈 Brad’s update on training his crypto signaling agent

Pour one and settle in as this one’s packed.

Ashton Slatev is VP of Product at Rwazi, based in Washington, D.C. He started in big tech, traded it for early-stage startup chaos, and never looked back. Learn more about Rwazi: rwazi.com.

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