The AI Resistance is Forming
After a week spent debating AI’s impact on humanity, Cal wants to turn his attention back to AI’s impact on humans. To support this shift, he brings on the writer Brad Stulberg who recently decided that he was “done” with AI. They explore whether this is a resistance movement in the making…More from Cal
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Chapters
0:00 A new paper calls LLMs a "cognitive virus"
4:03 Brad gave AI a real shot — then quit
8:13 Why everything online now sounds the same
13:22 Plank 1: Effort, struggle, and the click-of-a-button economy
20:11 You can take a gondola to the summit, but you didn't climb it
28:30 Plank 2: AI is an average maker
33:39 AI swirl: pseudo-productivity turned up to 11
49:40 Treat AI like ultra-processed food
55:08 Getting it off your phone, and the lesson of sports analytics
1:00:13 Team Human and the humanist resistance
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Podcast Production: Jesse Miller
Newsletter/Research: Nate Mechler
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