Welcome back to Zero Shot, where Rohin, Praveen, and Brady discover new ideas and interpretations of the latest developments in artificial intelligence.

This week, Rohin wonders what the threats are in our regular usage of AI tools and platforms. Conventional ways of safeguarding against exploits work to an extent, but new vectors are emerging for those who are criminally inclined.

Brady encounters an ad for Anthropic’s Claude in one of the least likely of places, then examines how the company is creating scarcity around its infinitely scalable product. What appears to be a play to cast Claude as a premium consumer product is an inverse of OpenAI and Perplexity’s strategies, but could also be a move to protect its enterprise margins.

Finally, Praveen looks at an OpenAI collaboration that enables Phonepe’s users to create images, seek career advice, get healthy recipes, receive astrological readings, and more. This could be a lead-in to one specific integration that matters much more to Phonepe, but it isn’t clear whether users are willing to share their financial data if it happens.

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Additional Reading:

Human behavior is an intuition-pump for AI risk
https://invertedpassion.com/human-behavior-is-an-intuition-pump-for-ai-risk/

AI and the paperclip problem
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/ai-and-paperclip-problem

AI status symbols are popping up everywhere
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-status-symbols-openai-anthropic-cursor-2025-10

Alexa, Siri, Netflix, Tiktok, ChatGPT, Claude—they all “feel like AI” to consumers
https://menlovc.com/perspective/2025-the-state-of-consumer-ai/

At a major AI conference, one startup got voted most likely to flop
https://www.businessinsider.com/at-an-ai-conference-attendees-were-asked-which-startup-they-would-short-2025-11 

Live skydiving with Google Glass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxmbbtuRszA 

PhonePe Announces Strategic Collaboration with OpenAI to Bring ChatGPT to Indian Users at Scale
https://www.phonepe.com/press/phonepe-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-openai-to-bring-chatgpt-to-indian-users-at-scale/