James Van Geelen

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74 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Jun

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Odd Lots · How Substack Creators Are Covering This Strange Markets Era · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

I've gotten two credible death threats, but not on the street.

Okay, I guess that's a plus.

Yeah, no, yeah.

I mean, you know, it's better when it's non-person, right?

But no, luckily I've been very much an internet personality and not someone that does a lot of taped

interviews like this.

We appreciate you making your time.

I do think that most of the people that I've spoken to who are worried about it are genuinely worried about it.

Something that I'd add to it is pretty much unanimously throughout history when we've had any sort of technological leap forward, it's been a positive thing.

And I think that AI will mirror that.

It's just the question is,

We've never had a technological kind of advancement this quickly.

We go from having the Industrial Revolution and the mechanization of agriculture, and 95% of people used to work in agriculture, and then now I think it's 5% do.

And I'm very happy to work in an air-conditioned office rather than in a field.

A little bit, yeah.

So maybe not.

But the thing is, that will happen, I think, believe very strongly, it will happen with AI.

It's just what happens in the interim.

What happens if the models get so good and people kind of adopt them with the same approach and use them correctly over five years instead of 100?

So I think speaking to some of the senior people, they would echo the fact that over the next 30 years, AI is going to be an immense force for good and going to make people's lives more comfortable.

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