This guy cured his dog’s cancer with ChatGPT + 4 other crazy AI stories

March 19, 2026

AI Summary

5 min read

Hosts Shaan Puri and Sam Parr share a series of recent AI developments and anecdotes, spanning workplace tools, massive revenue growth, health applications, education, data repurposing, and business efficiencies. The discussion highlights practical uses and implications without a unified thesis.

AI Agents and Communication Tools

Puri recounts a friend whose boss runs a 50-person firm but has created AI agents posing as "employees" like chief of staff and head of operations. Real employees must interact with these agents—escalating complaints up the chain—and the boss refers to them as people. Parr notes the irony: if agents replace jobs below, why not the boss's? He compares it to the "first they came for..." poem, suggesting AI could claim top roles too.

Parr describes using Andrew Wilkinson's AI personality test, which analyzes compatibility for spouses or partners; a mix-up led to a humorous "sexual compatibility" result with his business partner Joe. More practically, he feeds Slack messages into Claude, which advises replies based on personalities—e.g., framing criticism softly for defensive types or noting bluntness isn't malice. This has improved their communication.

Listeners are invited to a survey on preferred AI models for tasks like legal questions (Grok), writing (Claude), or quick queries (ChatGPT).

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **Intro to Crazy AI Stories** - Hosts kick off roundup of wild AI developments and anecdotes
2 (00:24) **Boss's AI Agent Hierarchy** - Friend navigates boss's AI "employees" like chief of staff and head of ops
3 (02:06) **Personality Test Mix-Up** - Andrew Wilkinson's test accidentally reveals sexual compatibility with business partner
4 (03:07) **Claude Analyzes Slack for Replies** - AI coaches responses based on personalities to avoid defensiveness
5 (05:09) **Anthropic's $6B Monthly Revenue** - Outpaces annual revenue of Snowflake/Databricks in one month
6 (05:49) **AI Model Preferences and Survey Plan** - Hosts polyamorous with tools; Claude for writing, Grok for legal
7 (10:36) **Dog's Cancer Cured via AI** - Australian sequences tumor DNA, uses AlphaFold/VRock for custom vaccine

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Show Notes

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(5:08) Story 1: Anthropic did $6B in revenue last month

(10:34) Story 2: Man uses AI to treat his dog's cancer

(17:06) Story 3: New high school for entrepreneurs

(29:12) Story 4: Pokemon Go is an AI mapping company now

(35:18) Story 5: Karpathy's job thing

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