AI is coming to your holiday table whether you like it or not.

In this episode, Juan and Kate share a practical AI holiday playbook for parents and families, focused on AI safety, AI for kids, and real-world holiday use cases that won’t turn dinner into a boiler room.

They cover AI holiday hacks that can make family gatherings easier, including safe ways to entertain kids with AI, how to talk to grandparents about AI without scaring them, and which AI topics will instantly derail the room. Share your best (or worst) AI holiday conversation in the comments!

🫟 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Create new holiday traditions with AI: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-life-hacks/everyday-ai/create-new-holiday-traditions

‘It’s so crushing’: US families navigate divide over politics during the holidays: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/23/family-politics-holiday

🫟 TOPICS

00:00 Why AI Keeps Coming Up at Family Holidays

00:29 The AI Holiday Playbook Strategy

01:29 Using AI to Entertain Kids: Helpful or Risky?

02:41 Low-Risk AI Activities Kids Love

03:33 Family Tech Safety: When AI Crosses a Line

04:53 How to Explain AI Safety to Your Family

06:46 Why AI Apps Want Faces and Family Data

07:31 Big Tech’s Take on AI Holiday Traditions

09:54 AI for Crafts & DIY Instructions

10:45 The Holiday Health Tracking Fail

11:36 AI Red Flags: Politics & Surveillance

12:53 Parenting Safety: The Bus Station Analogy

14:38 Economic Fears & The AI Bubble

16:03 AI Trends: Art vs. Slop Debate

18:51 A Simple Rule for Smarter AI Conversations

🫟 ABOUT SLOP WORLD

Juan Faisal and Kate Cook plunge into the slop pile—AI news, cultural shifts, and the future’s endless curveballs. They’re not here to sanitize the mess; they’re here to wrestle with it, laugh at it, and find meaning where you least expect it.

How much security are you willing to trade for convenience? Juan and Kate break down how prompt injection attacks exploit AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet, and why invisible instructions inside webpages can hijack your agents without you knowing.

We also discuss the resume hack going viral, the difference between direct vs. indirect prompt injection, and the real strategic trade-offs between convenience and LLM security.

🫟 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

- Prompt injection: A visual, non-technical primer for ChatGPT users: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/prompt-injection-visual-primer-georg-zoeller-tbhuc/

- AI browsers are here, and they're already being hacked: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-browsers-comet-openai-hacked-atlas-chatgpt-rcna235980

- Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post: https://futurism.com/ai-browser-hackers-drain-bank-account-public-reddit-post

🫟 TOPICS

00:00 - Why AI Browsers Like Atlas and Comet Are a Security Risk

00:50 - Invisible Instructions Hijacking Your AI Agent

01:51 - Prompt Injection Explained for Beginners

02:39 - The Hack That Exposes AI Browser Weaknesses

03:40 - The Resume Hack: Watch Your Data Get Stolen

04:43 - Phishing Attack Using Simple Meta Tags

05:20 - Hidden Malicious Prompts in Metadata & PDFs

06:00 - Direct Injection: Forcing Models Past Guardrails

06:41 - Indirect Injection: Embedded Instructions for Agents

07:22 - We're Playing With Fire: AI Browser Security Is a Mess

09:03 - Why AI Agents Get Manipulated So Easily

12:55 - ChatGPT Atlas & Perplexity Comet: Can We Trust These Browsers?

14:13 - What is Your Cost of Convenience? The Risks of AI Automation

16:01 - Why First-Gen AI Agents Will Always Be Flawed

🫟 ABOUT SLOP WORLD

Juan Faisal and Kate Cook plunge into the slop pile—AI news, cultural shifts, and the future’s endless curveballs. They’re not here to sanitize the mess; they’re here to wrestle with it, laugh at it, and find meaning where you least expect it.

AI productivity tools were supposed to help, but they often end up getting in the way of getting any work done.

Microsoft says the average worker gets hit 275 times a day, and many of those dings now come from the same AI tools that promised to keep us focused. Juan and Kate talk about how AI for business has turned into a distraction machine, how Copilot and similar tools push prompts no one asked for, and whether engagement metrics are driving this productivity mess.

🫟 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Microsoft, Work Trend Index Special Report "Breaking Down the Infinite Workday": https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/breaking-down-infinite-workday

🫟 TOPICS

00:00 When Interruptions Take Over Your Workday

00:08 Why AI Tools Keep Pulling Your Attention Away

00:35 Copilot And The Problem With “Helpful” Prompts

01:32 Why SaaS Tools Bake In Interruptions

03:20 Every App Trying To Teach You At Once

05:54 Your Attention As The Real Resource

06:52 Engagement Metrics vs. Productivity

07:50 The All-In-One AI Tools Ecosystem Theory

09:13 Why SaaS Tools Won’t Give Up Notifications

12:47 What People Really Do With AI at Work

13:57 Using AI Personas To Stress-Test Your Ideas

14:48 AI For Data Storytelling

16:31 One Easy Step To Level Up With AI

18:42 The Real Gap In AI Productivity At Work

19:48 Real-Time Interruption: Meet Ramón

20:22 How AI Could Handle Most Executive Decisions

22:17 One More Thing...

🫟 ABOUT SLOP WORLD

Juan Faisal and Kate Cook plunge into the slop pile—AI news, cultural shifts, and the future’s endless curveballs. They’re not here to sanitize the mess; they’re here to wrestle with it, laugh at it, and find meaning where you least expect it.