Jim VandeHei

Like I'm probably in your – I'm more in your camp that if I'm being honest, I have never been more excited to be alive.

intellectually, yes, there's things that scare me.

I think there's truly existential things that are hovering around us.

But intellectually, I have never been more on fire in terms of I find AI both frightening and the most fascinating thing I've ever used and I've ever thought of.

I think the political shifts that we're seeing here in Europe and Canada and everywhere that all are kind of mirroring each other, I just find it fascinating.

The stuff that you read about in history books when you have these large,

societal shifts that tend to be global in nature.

Even the stuff that you and I are talking about, this transformation of how our realities are formed.

This is a once in a hundred year shift.

And I think that, and Mike and I have written about this, I think that the root cause of

What I always tell people when they're like, I'm anxious, I'm anxious.

And I'm like, unless you are medicated to the point of being catatonic, you should be anxious because you have these huge shifts taking place.

And it's a long way of saying if you have the time, if you have the capability.

to throw yourself into it, it is electrifying.

I just worry that people don't and that because people aren't programmed and we're not wired to be able to deal with change at this level of scale in this many ways, that it's just pulling us further apart and pulling too many people too far away from reality.

Yeah, I think what I would say to them is like,

Of all the things that I feel passionately about right now, I feel there's nothing I feel more passionate about than you're basically being told that the internet's coming before the internet came.

You have a heads up on a technology that is going to have a bigger effect on society than the internet did.

And I increasingly think maybe at like an electricity level effect on society.

And for those people that are skeptical, like don't believe me.