Oxide and Friends

AI Detection with Max Spero

September 3, 2026·1h 1m
Episode Description from the Publisher

More and more, people are relying on AI to do their writing for them. Is this the new normal, or the intellectual equivalent of claiming take-out is your own home cooking? Max Spero, founder and CEO of Pangram, joined Bryan and Adam to discuss how they distinguish AI and human authorship.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Max Spero.Previously, on Oxide and Friends:OxF: Hiring Processes with Gergely OroszOxF: Shell Game with Evan RatliffOxF: Predictions 2026!!Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:PangramBrandon Sovran: "I Tried to Trick Pangram. I Lost."Stanley Druckenmiller: "Let the Bond Market Speak"Pangram 4 Technical ReportGoodfire: understand and debug your AI modelIf we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

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