AI Rebels

About AI Rebels

The AI Rebels Podcast is dedicated to exploring and documenting the grassroots of the current AI revolution. Every week a new episode is posted wherein the hosts interview entrepreneurs and developers working on the cutting edge. Tune in to benefit from their insight.

Publisher

Jacob and Spencer

Category

business · news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

15 Jan 2024

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

87 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Can We Trust AI? With Jonathan Schaeffer

   AI can win championships, write convincing answers, and still get the facts wrong. What would make it worthy of our trust? Spencer and Jacob sit down with Jonathan Schaeffer, the AI pioneer behind the checkers-playing system Chinook, for a candid conversation about privacy, bias, accountability, and the road to artificial general intelligence. Jonathan makes the case for independent AI audits, explains his approach to private local AI through KIND, and challenges the idea that language model...

2. 

   7 May 2026

   AI Is Moving at 100 MPH. Your Company Probably Isn’t. ft. Sreedhar Peddineni

   Sreedhar Peddineni has built companies through the internet, SaaS, cloud, and now AI, which makes his perspective especially valuable because he is not reacting to hype — he is comparing this shift to every major technology wave he has lived through. He argues that AI is moving far faster than most leaders and companies can absorb, and that the widening gap between what is possible and what teams are actually doing is becoming a serious competitive threat. His own experience growing GTM Buddy...

3. 

   15 Apr 2026

   Cavemen With Fire: Governing the AI Agent Fleet ft. Logan Kelly

   Everyone's shipping agents. Almost nobody is asking what happens when a hundred of them go off the rails at 100% utilization while a customer is on the other end. Logan Kelly — CEO of Waxell and a guy who's been punched in the face by real-world sales operations — joins us to argue that a dashboard isn't governance, it's an autopsy, and that most teams are "cavemen playing with fire, hoping there's a bucket of water somewhere." We get into why governance actually *accelerates* agent developme...

Who has been a guest on AI Rebels

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mike Spaeth
• Grigorij Dudnik
• Peter
• Will

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

17,047

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

49

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

60

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