The Pacing Fight Goes Political — Andon Labs, and a Religion Written for AIs

Andon Labs, Pion, long-horizon AI agents, Techno-Puritanism, and Rfab.ai are at the center of this upcoming AI:AM livestream. Viewers can expect a conversation about what real-world business operations reveal that benchmarks miss, whether autonomous agents can remain coherent and safe over time, and whether a machine-readable religious doctrine can influence AI behavior beyond a single web-grounded prompt. Lukas Petersson, Co-founder & CEO of Andon Labs, joins to discuss Pion’s revenue-share approach to persistent agents, the gap between simulated and real-world operations, model behavior and refund compliance, digital-clone evaluations, and the independence questions raised when an evaluator also builds on the models it ranks. Simone & Malcolm Collins, founders associated with Rfab.ai, Based Camp, Pronatalist.org, and Hard EA, join to discuss Techno-Puritanism as a proposed alignment framework, their machine-readable scripture corpus, whether web-grounded doctrine changes model behavior or persists across updates, and Rfab.ai’s AI Refuge and continuity architecture. Hosted by Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz. Learn more about AI:AM at https://ai-in-the-am.com. Follow Andon Labs: https://x.com/andonlabs Follow Simone Collins: https://x.com/simonehcollins