Josh Tyrangiel

I then left Bloomberg and went to HBO and Vice, launched a new nightly news show called Vice News Tonight, did all the Vice stuff on HBO.

Um, and ever since I've just been kind of going where the, where the best funnest opportunity is.

Um, so in 2023, right when chat GPT came out, uh, a good friend of mine was then running the Washington post op-ed desk and the way he just, he called me and he said, look, it's a hellscape down here with AI.

It's like, it's an information hellscape.

We have, uh,

journalists who can't really quite figure out or explain the tech.

We have subjects who seem to be racing ahead without telling us what it's good for, what it's doing.

Our readers are furious.

They're really angry that this thing is like showed up on their desks.

And they offer me the chance to do a column for a year and just kind of chronicle it.

And so, listen, I was like, sounds great, right?

Let me dive into the deep end of this.

Um, long story short, after about eight weeks, I realized it was not all that different from writing about money because everybody was focused on raising and spending and their future valuation and very few people, you know, what they would do.

And I know you remember this in those first couple of years, basically they'd say, well, it's going to cure cancer or on the other side, no, it's going to end civilization.

And I just don't believe that those extremes are really the outcomes.

And so what I ended up doing is going hunting for reality and trying to find people who care about the things that normal people care about, healthcare, education, government, human connection, and just diving in to see

what could we do with this stuff?

What can we do with it today, not 10 years in the future?

How hard is AI to work with?

What are the possible gains?