Cal Newport

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

I'm also with you. podcast-host

I mean, I think this feeds into it. podcast-host

There's this weird state that Silicon Valley is in right now, and they've done this before. podcast-host

I've written about this before. podcast-host

But the big AI companies, the frontier LLM labs in particular, they're still in this pre-IPO state where they think their goal is just to prove that their technology is impressive or powerful, right? podcast-host

which is different than what a normal consumer, mature consumer product company would do, which is I'm going to convince you that my product is valuable to you, right? podcast-host

So they're not out there making the case that, podcast-host

here's a tool we built that's going to make this part of your life better. podcast-host

And here's why, and here's why we think we should use it. podcast-host

They're out there talking about, you know, we're solving math theorems and we have swarms of, you know, AI robots, you know, they're going to kill us all. podcast-host

You should all just be generally impressed by how powerful our technology is. podcast-host

And then it's sort of being left to the individual to, podcast-host

They'd be like, you need to figure out how to actually use this in your life. podcast-host

The cultural pressure is just use it or get left behind. podcast-host

And so we've inverted this consumer product relationship where it typically was you're going to have to sell me pretty hard to convince me to spend money on, you know, the new Roto-Rooter. podcast-host

Right. podcast-host

Like you're going to have to really in your ads be like this is going you're going to get fertilizer spread four times quicker and it has a better whatever. podcast-host

And I'll be like, OK, I can see exactly how it's going to help my life. podcast-host

That's the way we normally think about products somehow with AI. podcast-host

And we've seen this with other digital products in the last two decades. podcast-host

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