Cal Newport

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

Visit horizon3.ai slash deep. podcast-host

Again, that's horizon3.ai slash deep. podcast-host

No commitment required. podcast-host

Results in hours, not weeks. podcast-host

All right, let's get back to the talk. podcast-host

Well, so let's get into this because when we were talking about this before on the phone, it really seemed like there was three major planks to your I'm sort of done with AI platform. podcast-host

And I think it's worth looking at each of these in turn because we don't normally hear this so systematically explored. podcast-host

I think it's important. podcast-host

So your first plank had to do with effort, right? podcast-host

I mean, your new book. podcast-host

Is that the way of excellence? podcast-host

You know, you're someone who knows a lot and has written recently a lot about the role of the pursuit of excellence in creating meaningful life. podcast-host

And you've talked to me about how you see real clashes with that human reality when you see AI being more increasingly used. podcast-host

So let's get into that plank a little bit. podcast-host

So what's going on here in your mind with the role of effort in meaning and how AI might undermine that? podcast-host

Right. podcast-host

Well, I mean, an aspect of what you just said there that I hadn't thought about before until I read the study that I talked about in the intro to this program where I was thinking about LLM use like a cognitive virus. podcast-host

And part of that construction was we're underestimating the addictiveness. podcast-host

Right. podcast-host

of this type of interaction as well. podcast-host

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