Ezra Klein

The problem with your friends and family is they're not good enough at creating content you want to see.

So what about if we create AI friends and family who are very good at creating content you want to see?

We don't know.

We do not know what it will mean, how it will change people to have these kinds of relationships with AIs, to say nothing of changing children who don't know anything but a world where you have relationships with AIs.

And honestly, like of every part of this, I think this is the part that maybe scares me the most.

altering our intuitions and expectations for human contact, having people being raised in an economy that is dehumanized, and then also a social world, a digital social world that is dehumanized, where you send in your job application and you're interviewed by an AI, which is happening to people now, where you come at the end of the day and you want to tell somebody about your bad day at school and you tell an AI.

I mean...

I don't think we understand what that will do to people.

I'm not even saying it will be bad.

Just it's a hell of an experiment to run on human beings.

Senate.

But a podcast.

Well, a podcast.

Yes.

That's where all the answers are.

Fundamentally, I feel like every podcast is asking that question.

Go deep enough.

I actually...

But I want to stay on where you just went, which is I have noticed that the best tech criticism, much of it comes from religious figures and communities.

And one reason I think is because modern liberalism, neoliberalism, you might call it, I think it is a lot of trouble with moral judgment.