Dr. Jill Lepore

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Decoder with Nilay Patel · Dr. Jill Lepore on why the AI backlash is vital for the future · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, I'm not the authority on Isaac Asimov, but like, I'm not going to ask Sam Altman what a short story means, right?

That's right.

I mean, I think of these guys as really instrumental.

They're not

pursuing knowledge for its own sake.

They are deeply interested in exploration and I think in wonder.

And I think like one of the things I really love about this moment is the fascination with space and, you know, space exploration.

I think it's tremendously exciting, you know, harnessed to militarization and certain commercial projects is like, wow, we went from Star Trek to Star Wars really fast.

You know, like the sense that, um,

What you might want to know about the world can be just because it's worth knowing rather than that you can use it to extract money from other people.

I just don't think that's part of that tech culture.

It's just not.

That position, right?

A kind of humanist commitment to knowledge for the sake of the accumulation of wisdom and leading a better life and understanding the world with greater clarity and greater compassion.

I think it's largely mocked in that world as...

woke or feminine or libtard whatever like i think especially with the kind of the the the conservative turn of the tech world it takes on weird weird valences yeah i think it is really purposeful like this kind of knowledge is not worth having we can't make money off of it we can't you know if we had that kind of knowledge it might slow down what we're trying to do and

And what we're trying to do is win the AI race and determine the future of humanity.

And, you know, like the lack of curiousness about the bigger world and the place of these really thrilling inventions within it.

I don't know.

I find it bizarre.

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