Josh.ai

We need to be writing the rules and paving the path for how AI is going to operate safely, efficiently, and honestly, reliably in the home environment.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Flywheel Effect.

We're sponsored by Vital.

Maybe we don't want to see all of them, but most of them.

And that guest is Alex Kaposalapro.

the founder and CEO of Josh AI.

Alex is the recently immediate past president of Cedia.

He's also as a founder of Josh AI, one of the people that really brought AI to the integration space.

Oh, and I can turn the lights on and off in my house or, Oh, I can music cast to my, or I can, excuse me, I can airplay it to my blue sound node in the living room.

I mean, some of those things, like I think that if I'm at Crestron or I'm at a control for Josh AI or any of these companies, I'm looking at this entry going shit.

Yeah.

You better make sure that you, at the very least, you have an app that's compatible with this thing, right? 100%.

Oh, you're too poor to buy the good stuff.

It's true.

I'm not a Josh AI house.

I live amongst the poors.

One more control system out there.

So, uh, Lutron partners with Josh AI quite a bit, and they are another whole home integration company, but where they differ is their system will adapt to people's lifestyles.

So if you utilize your system the same way you do every time at 6:00 PM, it'll adapt to function that way, and it'll tie everything in.

But I think the biggest thing on the coordination side is work with a manufacturer that is open protocol to integrate with others, because that's gonna be the most seamless integration to a whole home system, if that's what the customer's looking for.

All right.

Speaking of agents, Josh AI has published a voluntary code of conduct for AI in the home.

And it's the big idea here is that the AI should never directly control devices.

Instead, Josh is arguing that the AI should sit underneath a separate control system that enforces permissions, safety rules, household rules, and an obvious ops wish before any physical action takes place or happens.

But it's a good start.

I have a real question, though.

What company in the professional space would you trust with this other than Josh AI?

I mean, you'd have to have another company.