Inside an AI-Run Company

AI agents are moving from demos to real workplaces, but what actually happens when they run a company? In this episode, journalist Evan Ratliff, host of Shell Game, joins Chris to discuss his immersive journalism experiment building a real startup staffed almost entirely by AI agents. They explore how AI agents behave as coworkers, how humans react when interacting with them, and where ethical and workplace boundaries begin to break down.

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Evan Ratliff – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X

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