Boldly Human: Stan Berteloot on AI Agents, Fear, Food Waste, and the Future of Connection

What happens when a French journalist turned AI marketing strategist starts building autonomous digital coworkers… while also helping recover hundreds of thousands of meals for families in need?

This week on Moped Outlaws, we ride with Stan Berteloot — Chief Innovation Officer at Nytro Marketing, host of Back in America, creator of AI workflows and agents, former Reuters journalist, nonprofit founder, and curious observer of humanity in all its contradictions.

The conversation begins in the rapidly evolving world of AI agents and autonomous systems. Stan explains how he built a team of specialized AI “coworkers” capable of managing inboxes, marketing campaigns, research, logistics, and communications — systems that never sleep, constantly learn, and increasingly blur the line between tool and collaborator.

But this ride quickly moves beyond technology.

Greg and Marc explore the emotional, political, and philosophical implications of artificial intelligence, automation, social media, algorithmic division, and the strange tension between human connection and digital acceleration. Along the way, the conversation touches on propaganda, fear-driven politics, journalism, globalization, cultural identity, marketing psychology, and whether technology could someday help humanity become less divided instead of more fragmented.

And underneath all of it is a surprisingly grounded human story.

Stan shares the work behind Share My Meals, the nonprofit organization he helped create to recover prepared food from corporations, cafeterias, and institutions and redistribute it to families facing food insecurity. What started as a local Princeton effort has already delivered hundreds of thousands of meals across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and beyond.

The conversation moves fluidly between AI infrastructure and canoe trips with dogs. Between French identity and Midwestern kindness. Between marketing automation and the universal human desire to belong, feel safe, and feed our families.

There’s humor here too — rogue WhatsApp AI assistants accidentally wishing family members happy birthday, drunken Foo Fighters singalongs on trains through Europe, butter debates, escargot diplomacy, and reflections on what Americans and Europeans misunderstand about each other.

At its heart, this episode becomes a meditation on openness:
to people,
to cultures,
to uncertainty,
and to the possibility that curiosity might still be stronger than fear.

Classic Moped Outlaws territory.

Guest Links
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/berteloot/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/berteloot
Back In America Podcast: https://backinamericathepodcast.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@backinamericathepodcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/berteloot/
Substack: https://backinamerica.substack.com/
X: https://x.com/StanBerteloot

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