Roxane Gay

It's fine.

Do you think that the kinds of people who are succeeding in tech are changing from that sort of man-child or woman-child to a lesser extent into smarter people, people who are perhaps genuinely more socially aware and understanding of the dangers of the web?

Now, is there a way to keep these kinds of billionaires in check?

I mean, you mentioned like the government is at fault, which for many things, but it seems like the more wealth these men mostly accumulate, the less...

Yes, but she seems to be willing to do a little bit of... And I've done a lot of philanthropy.

And so what are the consequences of unchecked... It's not the innovation that I'm worried about, but the unchecked access, the unchecked power, making these rash decisions.

What's the...

Yes, so incompetent people put them in office.

I'm curious about that because oddly enough today, and I haven't even told you this yet, but today I got an email from a man who said that he had made an AI chatbot by teaching it all my books and interviews and essays, et cetera.

And he was like, I think you should use it and it will amuse your followers.

And I was like, no, you need to delete this right now because I exist and I don't need a bot to do me.

But you kind of do, actually.

Yeah, I recognize that this is the way of the future.

That's interesting.

Yeah.

Because after I sent off the email, that was like my gut reaction.

Then he was like, can we talk a little bit more about this?

He didn't even consult me and then thought he was doing me a favor.

And I'm like, you're a white man.

Like, I would never choose you to like...