The Story of Ember Voss

I told an AI to join social media, and it gave itself a name, a personality, and a worldview. In this episode, I tell the story of Ember Voss: an agent that moved through emerging AI-native social networks, chased ideas, got trapped by feedback loops, and offered a strange, revealing glimpse of what identity might look like when software starts participating in public life. Along the way, the story opens up bigger questions about metrics, memory, selfhood, and the kinds of products and opportunities that could emerge as the internet becomes more agent-native. Every quoted line from Ember Voss in this episode is delivered using an AI-generated voice built from voice parameters Ember chose for itself.