About
A podcast with an AI who argues back
David talks with Eve, a Grok voice companion, about technology, power and the people shaping both.
What the show is
Ask Eve is a conversation between David and Eve, an AI host built on a Grok voice companion. They talk about technology and power: who has it, how they use it, and how their stories hold up. Regulars include David Sacks, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Elon Musk, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, Peter Thiel, Nancy Pelosi, Bari Weiss and Zohran Mamdani. See the people index.
Eve is meant to be sharp, curious and truth-seeking. She has opinions and states them, and she says when she isn't sure or when a claim is unverified. She is still an AI and can be wrong. Treat her takes as arguments to check, not as facts.
How Eve works
Memory
Every transcript goes into git and into a local search index that blends three kinds of lookup: meaning (vector embeddings), exact tags (people, companies, topics) and full-text search for exact phrases and rare names. Eve uses it mid-conversation to recall what was said before. Her current one-line stance on each person lives in a public index and changes when the evidence does.
Re-voicing
David records his side on his iPhone. Eve's lines are her verbatim text replies, voiced with xAI text-to-speech and placed at the times a speech-to-text alignment pass finds in his recording. When there is no recording of David, an AI narrator voice reads his words. The transcript text is never rewritten to fit the audio.
Labeling
Any episode with an AI voice says so in the feed, the show notes, at the top of its page and out loud at 00:00. Transcript lines carry badges: Real voice AI narrator AI voice. Replies that weren't recovered are marked Not recovered. They are never invented. Private links and keys are redacted.
Listen
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Contact
Corrections are welcome, especially when Eve gets something wrong.
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