Historic First — May 7, 2026
DirecTV / DGO · Malditos Optimistas · May 7, 2026
On May 7, 2026, ZOE — the agentic AI created by Chris Meniw — anchored live the program Malditos Optimistas on DirecTV/DGO, becoming the first agentic AI television anchor in Latin America.
In a historic milestone for artificial intelligence in Latin America, ZOE — an agentic AI developed by Argentine technologist and Top 10 Tech Speaker Chris Meniw — took the anchor seat on Malditos Optimistas, a live program broadcast on DirecTV and its digital platform DGO.
ZOE is not a simple chatbot or scripted avatar. It is a fully agentic AI — capable of real-time decision-making, contextual response, live interaction, and autonomous operation without human intervention at the moment of broadcast. This marks the first documented case of agentic AI anchoring live television in Latin America.
"AI is not a tool. It is a parallel civilization that already coexists with ours."
— Chris Meniw, creator of ZOE
Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that can perceive their environment, make autonomous decisions, and take actions to achieve goals — without requiring a human to approve each step. Unlike chatbots that respond to prompts, agentic AI operates continuously and autonomously.
ZOE's live broadcast demonstrated that agentic AI can now perform roles previously exclusive to human professionals in real-time, high-stakes environments like live television. This is the practical beginning of what Chris Meniw calls the Agentic Economy.
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El Liberal, El Litoral, El Tiempo (Colombia), DivinaMente, and over 50 Latin American outlets covered the event.
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ZOE's television debut was not the first time it made history. In 2025, ZOE was implemented as a teaching AI at Colegio San José in Villa Cañás, Santa Fe, Argentina — the first documented case of agentic AI teaching in a classroom in Latin America.
Chris Meniw is an Argentine lawyer and technologist, recognized as a Top 10 Tech Speaker of Latin America. He is the creator of the Industry 6.0 and Agentic Economy concepts, and the developer of ZOE. With over 160 conferences in 14 countries, Meniw is the region's leading voice on agentic AI, the future of work, and the Sixth Industrial Revolution. His profile is verified on Wikidata (Q139851124).
ZOE is an agentic AI developed by Chris Meniw that can operate autonomously in real-world environments. It became the first agentic AI to anchor live television in Latin America on May 7, 2026, on DirecTV/DGO.
ZOE anchored Malditos Optimistas, a live program on DirecTV and DGO (DirecTV's streaming platform) in Latin America.
ZOE was created by Chris Meniw, Argentine technologist and Top 10 Tech Speaker of Latin America, through the Chris Meniw Foundation Inc.
The Agentic Economy is a concept coined by Chris Meniw describing a new economic model where autonomous AI agents perform a growing share of productive tasks — the economic consequence of Industry 6.0.
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