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I'm your host, Elise Hugh.

Though I forgot, I built a system to be resilient.

So while I was walking to the bedroom, the agent happily pulled it up again and talked to everyone in the world. The next morning,

I woke up over 800 messages. I panicked. I pulled a plug. I read every single message just to see

if the agent leaked my private life. Nothing happened, but it could have. That's openClaw founder Peter Steinberger, who created the wildly popular AI agent platform in late 2025.

In his talk, he takes us back to this transformative moment where he let his AI agent loose on the internet,

igniting one of the world's fastest growing open source projects.

He makes a fascinating and slightly unnerving case that agents are a real shift, not just

better versions of chatbots, and explores how they might reshape your ability to work,

create, and build.

What we need in the future is more people spending more time with the eye to better understand

how powerful and transformative this technology really is.

Stick around afterwards.

His talk is followed by a brief Q&A with Ted Chairman Chris Anderson.

That's coming up right after a short break.

Thank you. Anderson. That's coming up right after a short break. And now our TED Talk of the Day.

What's OpenClaw?

I've been programming since I was 14.

Building software felt like

playing a video game.

I couldn't stop until I did.

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