Kate Cox

I can't do anything about that for you.

So it exists, and now you're saying, okay, it could change and it could get disrupted.

All the people who make their living driving for Uber today, what are you going to do with them?

And so maybe the 30% should move back to the restaurants, but now you've taken it away from the Uber drivers and you've moved it to robots.

That is a tradeoff you could make.

The technology could force us into that tradeoff over time.

But I think our show is going to just put people in a complicated situation of having to make those tradeoffs or at least work through those tradeoffs over the course of an hour-long interview because it's all coming.

And I don't think the agents –

They're not going to live in our basements on Raspberry Pis.

They're going to live on big centralized cloud services operated by tech giants who have their own incentives.

Understanding their incentives versus your own will be, I think, critical to preserving some consumer agency.

I think there's been some correction in the creator economy already.

Let me be specific about what I mean there.

The creator economy is really expressed as brands can show up, pay creators to do endorsements and sponsorships, and that will drive some sales back to those brands.

That's the whole economy.

There's not a part of that economy where any of the platforms are paying creators high enough rates to survive.

So if you are a YouTuber or an Instagram influencer or a TikToker, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok are not paying you nearly enough money to eat.

It's just not true.

And so all of those creators need to get subsidized by brands.

They need to do brand deals and sponsorships and find other ways to make money because the platforms themselves don't pay enough.