Cal Newport

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23,606 appearances 41 recordings 5 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 4d ago

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Deep Questions with Cal Newport · The AI Resistance is Forming. (Should You Join?) · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

It's not making my life better. podcast-host

It's actually running contrary to many of the things that I live in my life and write about, about what makes human life meaningful. podcast-host

So you know what? podcast-host

I'm done. podcast-host

And I said, Brad, podcast-host

I've got to have you on the show because what you're talking about sounds like the beginnings of a pro-human resistance movement to this sort of totalitizing influence of artificial intelligence, exactly the type of issue that we should be discussing. podcast-host

Not about whether the super intelligent AI is going to kill us with lasers or bees with bombs strapped onto them. podcast-host

We should be talking about how should you as a person be thinking about AI right now if your goal is to flourish as a human. podcast-host

We need that to be a part of the conversation. podcast-host

Arguably, that should be the biggest part of the conversations because that's what most people actually care about is how is this going to impact my life? podcast-host

How do I keep my life meaningful? podcast-host

So I had Brad on and we walked through it. podcast-host

I walked through why did he make that decision? podcast-host

What were the planks of this platform on which he's building this sort of incipient resistance movement? podcast-host

We got some of the objections. podcast-host

Look, we didn't come away with some sort of crystal clear philosophy that I'm saying all of you have to follow. podcast-host

This is the right way to do. podcast-host

But I came away thinking this is the type of conversation we need to be having right now. podcast-host

This is what matters as much as trying to understand the minutia of exactly what harness was used in the solving of this math equation and what does that mean for the general math ability. podcast-host

I'm kind of tired of those discussions. podcast-host

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