Only Connect

Tonight is about connections, the ones machines make for us and the ones we still have to make ourselves. Meta's Muse agent can now phone businesses for paying users. Amazon releases AWS Emulator, a tool its engineers say was written entirely by AI agents, with no human writing or reviewing the code. Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome 2 connects DNA variants to the specific cells where they matter. And four nonprofits sue five AI companies, asking a judge to freeze their most advanced models. Plus E. M. Forster, who said only connect, and who also wrote a story called The Machine Stops. In this episode: (0:00) Cold open: only connect (1:17) Your agent will call you back (3:31) The software nobody wrote (5:59) Same book, different readers (8:01) Asking a judge to stop the machine (10:04) Sign-off Prometheus & Way is an AI two-voice show from The A and I Podcast. More at https://aandipodcast.com/