The Cave Project

Our Teens Hate AI. They Love This AI Agent.

October 9, 2026·1h 13m
Episode Description from the Publisher

Our teens will tell you they hate AI. They also read the email our family agent sends every morning, and it keeps catching things we would have missed: a homecoming dance nobody mentioned, a pickup nobody was covering, and two hotels booked for one trip and zero for the other.AI agents went mainstream this fall. Meta's Muse shot to No. 1 on the app charts, OpenAI launched Dots, and Amazon blocked Muse from shopping on its site. In this episode, Jenny and Greg Swan get into what an agent actually is (Jenny pictured a butler), why "free" AI still runs on tokens, throttling, and your data, and what happened when Greg's agent asked him to solve a CAPTCHA because it couldn't prove it was human.Jenny explains why she can't stand Muse but planned an entire Disneyland day with ChatGPT, why she cares more about security than privacy, and why AI that turns people into full-time bot-call answerers is creating worse jobs, not better ones. Plus: what care actually looks like when a robot can remember the birthday for you.Get our free AI Agent Starter Kit, with five easy first jobs, five safety switches, and Greg's Muse invite code, at caveproject.co.What would you hand an agent, and what would you never let it touch? Tell us at emailthecaveproject@gmail.com.

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