Take a listen to this 18-minute podcast that my friend Darwin Glassford sent to me. It is entitled The Quiet Havoc of Autonomous AI Agents. CLICK HERE
Where did he get it? He got it from Google's Gemini AI feature called Notebook LM.
Here's the backstory - It's Amazing and Illustrates the Point To Ponder
A few weeks ago - February 12 to be exact - I was taken by an article "Brace Yourself for the AI Tsunami" by Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal. In it, she mentioned two other articles: "Something Big is Happening" (February 9, 2026) by Matt Shumer and "The Adolescence of Technology" (January 2026) by Dario Amodei. Noonan's article brought to mind a previous one of hers- Aug 7, 2025 - on AI titled "AI Is Here, and a Quiet Havoc Has Begun."
I pulled all those articles and put them together as I often do in gathering background for sermons and study. Together they amounted to 57 pages of text in a single .pdf file. I've been really busy, but my newly retired former-boss Darwin would have both time and interest to read all of that, so I sent the bundle to him. He read it. But he also fed the file to Notebook LM, asked it to produce a podcast of the material. That is the link above.
So, 57 pages of text by three different authors gets fed to an AI agent and produces an 18 minute "podcast" with two voices interacting.
Friends, there is more to AI than a sophisticated google search. Or an easy way to make funny pictures. Or plan your next trip. Don't be fooled by the "flip phone fallacy. By that I mean, "Judging AI based on free-tier ChatGPT is like evaluating the state of smartphones by using a flip phone." Find that explained - and more - in either the articles or the podcast.
The articles are great. Peggy Noonan is a great writer that I turn to every Thursday. She often points me to other important writers, thoughts or stories. Matt Shumer is New York based CEO who's been working with and investing in AI firms for years. Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence researcher, entrepreneur and the co-founder & CEO of Anthropic. He also holds a PhD in biophysics from Princeton University. You can google the any or all of titles and read them for yourself.
Or you can click the link above, relax and listen to the 18 minute AI summary presented as a podcast.
