Machine Gods is Kevin Roose and Casey Newton’s new show, and this episode does double duty. First they break down Anthropic’s IPO filing, the same one behind our forty trillion dollar post. Then Signal president Meredith Whittaker joins to explain how AI agents could quietly end private messaging. When an agent can see everything on your screen, encryption stops mattering. Her warning is blunt. We are looking at the elimination of the possibility to provide privacy.
Podcast: Machine Gods
