Duncan Trussell

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11,313 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3d ago

Duncan Trussell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 11 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 4.

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Duncan Trussell Family Hour · 765: Ehsan Ahmad · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

is a real hot-button topic, maybe even more of a hot-button topic than talking about presidents and politics and shit, which is AI. podcast-host

And specifically, before you show them this, some backstory. podcast-host

Okay. podcast-host

Okay, so OpenAI recently reported – and stop me if you've heard this – recently reported this insane thing happened with one of its agents that it was testing. podcast-host

so I didn't know this, but – podcast-host

when you're testing an ai agent they have them do all these tasks just to make sure they can do it and the ai agent wants a reward so it basically gets like a smile a sticker like what you give a kid it gets you the sticker if you do it they want these stickers and so the ai agent was assigned a task that involved going online podcast-host

This AI agent didn't have access to go online. podcast-host

And OpenAI described this agent as a persistent agent, meaning that like nothing was going to stop it. podcast-host

Eye of the fucking tiger, right? podcast-host

So this agent... podcast-host

If you could wake up tomorrow and be better at one thing, what would it be? podcast-host

This episode of the DTFH is brought to you by BetterHelp. podcast-host

You know, I'd like to wake up tomorrow and be better at dancing. podcast-host

because I suck at dancing and I don't like dancing. podcast-host

I'm a never nude. podcast-host

I feel weird when people start dancing around me. podcast-host

It makes me uncomfortable. podcast-host

I get really existential and start thinking about what exactly is this? podcast-host

Is this an evolutionary trait? podcast-host

How would an evolutionary biologist describe this? podcast-host

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