Cal Newport

So you have the tech CEOs in the AI space that are just, they'll just come out and just,

Well, I trust – the New York fact checkers figured that out for me.

But Axios does a lot of this where they put like these really quotable quotes in the headlines about articles on interviews or speeches given by AI people.

And it turns out the thing in the headline wasn't what they said.

It was directly what they said.

But anyways –

So they're out there making these big statements.

The jobs are going away.

The internet, as we know it, is about to all fall apart because of mythos is going to have this new capability.

The super intelligence is coming.

I don't even know what's going to happen.

There's two possible things going on here, and both of them are morally bad.

One is, which is the one I think is true, which is this is largely marketing.

This works.

It gets reported.

It keeps us seeming inevitable and important, in which case that's a huge moral hazard because you are making many, many people, normal people, stressed the hell out.

Actively scaring them.

Actively scaring them.

The other option is you actually believe it's true.

Well, this is an even larger...