David Pearce

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14,416 appearances 53 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Sep

David Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 53 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 20.

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The Vergecast · What's behind the Google AI shakeup · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

Like this is what we're doing now. voice-verified

you think I I think I agree with almost all of that. voice-verified

I think the other piece of this that I've been thinking a lot about is where AI is interesting and where I AI is actually finding real product market fit. voice-verified

Like if you if you look at Demis's office, I've talked to him a number of times over the years. voice-verified

And one of my favorite things about talking to Demis is you you talk to Google executives or executives at almost any company and you voice-verified

You you usually talk to them in the course of talking about some new product, right? voice-verified

They're about to launch a thing, so they make Demosisabis available to talk about that thing. voice-verified

He never wants to talk about the news. voice-verified

He's like, Look at this cool new thing we shipped. voice-verified

I actually don't care very much about that. voice-verified

Let me tell you all these other things that we're working on and all the reasons I think this is interesting and he has been voice-verified

pretty straightforward over the years, I about not thinking that building an AI personal assistant to search your Gmail is the most interesting thing you can do with AI. voice-verified

I I happen to think he's right. voice-verified

Um and he really believes, I mean, he won a Nobel Prize for some of the work that that DeepMind has been doing for many years on this stuff to actually go and try to cure diseases and come up with new proteins and invent whole new things. voice-verified

Like he just earnestly believes that all of the places we are pointing AI right now are the are the uninteresting places to put it. voice-verified

And especially you look voice-verified

At it right now, we're in earnings season. voice-verified

So we're learning how much all of these companies are spending on this stuff. voice-verified

Everybody's capital expenses are out of control. voice-verified

Everybody is spending like the world is going to end on AI infrastructure of one sort or another. voice-verified

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