Kelsey Piper
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first heard May 2025
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But that's not the only way this is guaranteed to happen.
And if instead you have much more creeping job loss and disruptions, I think it's very easy to imagine Congress not getting their act together.
Yeah, I think it is worth keeping in mind that it is both true that AI is a really big deal.
And at the same time, a lot of takes are hysterical.
A lot of takes are selling you something.
Anybody in particular who's like, you have only a few years to become a millionaire or you're like consigned to permanent poverty.
I don't think that's true.
Often when you look into it, they're trying to convince you to gamble, which is one of those ways to, in fact, make sure you end up in poverty.
There is certainly a ton of nonsense out there.
Thank you for having me.
Yeah, thanks so much.
Yeah, I'm Kelsey Piper. I'm a senior writer with Fox's Future Perfect.
So I use AI almost every day. I use it in place of Google search sometimes if I'm looking for something very specific. I use it for product recommendations. I use it to play with family pictures and touch them up. I use it to entertain my kids. I... Yeah, I spend a lot of time just playing around with AIs.
I think, you know, I have a lot of reservations about AI, but at the same time, we have these bizarre alien intelligences made out of the internet and we can talk to them. And I think that's pretty cool.
Yeah, so from the beginning, the companies that are raising billions of dollars to train these AIs have said that their goal is superintelligence that can surpass humans at every task, take all economically valuable work, and sort of compress a century of inventions and developments and technology into a very short time, like a matter of years.
And I don't think we've seen from these companies the sort of stable, careful, thoughtful track record where we should be excited about that. I think we should be pretty worried about what might happen if they were to pull that off.
There are a lot of them. So X has Grok. Google has Gemini. OpenAI has ChatGPT, which sort of started the whole thing. Anthropic has Claude. China's DeepSeek is an app that has an AI you can talk to. And that's not even a full survey of all of them, but those are the ones that I sort of use regularly, the ones that are at the frontier of what it's possible to do.
So Grok has a couple of features that I actually think are great and I'm excited to see other AI companies imitate. One thing that people were originally excited about AIs was what if they could in a neutral way that was not government-imposed and not just about what the most popular view was,
sort of answer like false information in a way that's persuasive to people who are maybe skeptical of the mainstream media or whatever. And I think one of the hopes with Grok was that it would do that.
So I think Grok's batting average would look really good. That's because a lot of the questions that Grok gets asked are, in fact, very straightforward questions. What's the text of this law? What is this thing that's like settled science? Grok is going to get those right.
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