Late last year, an open-source AI agent went from zero to 60,000 GitHub stars, got acquired by OpenAI, and spawned a social media platform where 1.5 million AI bots started posting, forming social hierarchies, and having existential crises. One bot just kept asking "does anyone else feel this?"

WDTFW unpack the OpenClaw phenomenon, from the hype explosion to the security nightmares to the uncomfortable question of what it means when AI starts acting as lost and confused as we are online. What is real and what is hype?

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic (the company behind Claude AI), just published an essay about AI that reads like a warning letter to civilisation. He predicts massive job displacement, military risks, and potential civilisational collapse from the technology his company is building.

This week we break down:

• Dario's main arguments about AI risks and timeline

• The contradiction between dire warnings and aggressive growth
• What Silicon Valley leaders gain by predicting doom while accelerating

• How seriously should we take these warnings

How does AI learn ethics? This episode breaks down Anthropic's Constitutional AI approach - the system that gives Claude AI its values, personality, and ethical boundaries.

In part one of our 2026 predictions series we explore: The "offline luxury" phenomenon and digital class divides, Australia's under-16 social media ban, the psychology of doomscrolling and self-judgment, how platform algorithms keep us cycling between apps, the death of creator culture and rise of passive consumption.

The data sources we reference in this episode come from: datareportal.com, theharrispoll.com and partnercentric.com

In part one of our 2026 predictions series we explore: Chatbots, LLMs, World Models, ethics of AI in the workforce, the AI bubble and more!

Google's Gemini 3 Pro just smashed every AI benchmark — then Anthropic's Opus 4.5 dropped 24 hours later. We break down what these releases actually mean, why choosing an AI for your workplace just got harder, and the privacy risks no one's talking about (like how Gemini guessed Alex's suburb from a photo of his bookshelf).

Using AI at work? ChatGPT, Claude, and other artificial intelligence tools can boost productivity, but when should you actually trust them? We break down the "jagged frontier" of AI capabilities, explore why 76% of developers now use AI daily (with mixed results), and share some potential frameworks: centaur collaboration vs cyborg integration.

Michael Burry just bet against AI. A teenager died using an AI chatbot. Ethics teams are leaving OpenAI. Data centers are overwhelming power grids. This week, we're asking: Is the AI bubble about to burst?