Alexis Ohanian

You know, the entertainment industry, we're in LA right now. It's undeniable that AI is going to have a huge impact in how we make films. And it will affect 80, 90% of the industry in really big ways that we still can't fully understand. And I just took my daughter to see Back to the Future for her birthday on Broadway. Oh, wow.

You know, the entertainment industry, we're in LA right now. It's undeniable that AI is going to have a huge impact in how we make films. And it will affect 80, 90% of the industry in really big ways that we still can't fully understand. And I just took my daughter to see Back to the Future for her birthday on Broadway. Oh, wow.

And I'm sitting there and I'm realizing, you know, and actually, by the way, the special effects, all these dope LEDs, like it was actually one of the most dynamic theater experiences I've ever seen, right? That's technology. My bet is 10 years from now, live theater at a time when the commoditization of so many parts, not all of, but so many parts of like on-screen storytelling happens, right?

And I'm sitting there and I'm realizing, you know, and actually, by the way, the special effects, all these dope LEDs, like it was actually one of the most dynamic theater experiences I've ever seen, right? That's technology. My bet is 10 years from now, live theater at a time when the commoditization of so many parts, not all of, but so many parts of like on-screen storytelling happens, right?

And it gets easier and cheaper and more efficient and more dynamic. You will see a big shift in that industry. And it's not going to go away. It's going to elevate so many things. But every screen we look at, for sure, our phones, our televisions, whatever, will be so programmed to show us what we want, when we want it, how we want it.

And it gets easier and cheaper and more efficient and more dynamic. You will see a big shift in that industry. And it's not going to go away. It's going to elevate so many things. But every screen we look at, for sure, our phones, our televisions, whatever, will be so programmed to show us what we want, when we want it, how we want it.

A part of our humanity will miss thousands of years ago when we were sitting around a campfire. And that great storyteller was doing the voices and the impressions. We were like, oh, that's hilarious, Jimmy. Do the story again at the time we tried to catch the gazelle, right? That's ingrained in our species. So I actually bet 10 years from now, live theater will be more popular than ever

A part of our humanity will miss thousands of years ago when we were sitting around a campfire. And that great storyteller was doing the voices and the impressions. We were like, oh, that's hilarious, Jimmy. Do the story again at the time we tried to catch the gazelle, right? That's ingrained in our species. So I actually bet 10 years from now, live theater will be more popular than ever

Because again, we'll look at all these screens with all these AI polished images, and we'll actually want to sit in a room with other humans to be captivated for a couple of hours in a dark room to feel the goosebumps of seeing live performances of human performances. And so I think we'll see this across a number of different sectors and areas that'll feel anachronistic.

Because again, we'll look at all these screens with all these AI polished images, and we'll actually want to sit in a room with other humans to be captivated for a couple of hours in a dark room to feel the goosebumps of seeing live performances of human performances. And so I think we'll see this across a number of different sectors and areas that'll feel anachronistic.

It'll feel crazy that in 2040, the hottest ticket in town will be a live performance. But I actually think, I think there's some truth to that. I think that's why I'm so bullish on sports because no one's going to pay money to cheer for and cry for a robot kicking a soccer ball. Like we need humans doing that. We need, we need to feel their pain and their success and their triumphs.

It'll feel crazy that in 2040, the hottest ticket in town will be a live performance. But I actually think, I think there's some truth to that. I think that's why I'm so bullish on sports because no one's going to pay money to cheer for and cry for a robot kicking a soccer ball. Like we need humans doing that. We need, we need to feel their pain and their success and their triumphs.

And those are the areas that get me most hopeful because it's, it's kind of a nice throwback to when we were just hunting or growing the things we needed to live when, you know, the distractions we had were literally the humans around us and the community we had were basically the only people we all knew for our entire lives.

And those are the areas that get me most hopeful because it's, it's kind of a nice throwback to when we were just hunting or growing the things we needed to live when, you know, the distractions we had were literally the humans around us and the community we had were basically the only people we all knew for our entire lives.

And there are parts of that that I actually think will nourish us even in this, you know, future. Have all parts of you always been that optimistic?

And there are parts of that that I actually think will nourish us even in this, you know, future. Have all parts of you always been that optimistic?

i've definitely always been a tech optimist i i think look building reddit i mean you know how i resigned in protest in 2020 because i was despite being the face of the company spending you know 15 years building it turning it around you know i found myself in board meetings this is all public now but i'd find myself in board meetings where i was the only person out of five who was advocating for banning

i've definitely always been a tech optimist i i think look building reddit i mean you know how i resigned in protest in 2020 because i was despite being the face of the company spending you know 15 years building it turning it around you know i found myself in board meetings this is all public now but i'd find myself in board meetings where i was the only person out of five who was advocating for banning

like watch people die literally a community of you know hundreds of thousands of people sharing videos of just or horrible usually uh like closed circuit television or close-circuit camera footage of just awful stuff people dying suicide murder all this accidents and and then again it comes up again around communities like explicitly built on racism and things that i just

like watch people die literally a community of you know hundreds of thousands of people sharing videos of just or horrible usually uh like closed circuit television or close-circuit camera footage of just awful stuff people dying suicide murder all this accidents and and then again it comes up again around communities like explicitly built on racism and things that i just