Wyatt Cenac

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Panic World · Bad things happen when we let robots decide what’s good · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I have no idea what I just was watching.

I feel like my main takeaway, and it kind of speaks to this larger conversation around AI that I feel like you touched on a little bit when you're talking about Uber, which is...

I don't know how much of the AI panic is just driven to raise valuation.

Sure.

And how much, like, that thing started off by saying, like, we all knew TV was dead.

And I feel like that's a narrative that...

gets pushed over and over again and before ai it was like tv's dead and then it was prestige tv and you know and that like every decade tv is both dead and never been better and so i i think when i heard that part of it my brain just immediately went to how much of ai and this conversation around ai is

the people who are selling us this snake oil saying, oh my gosh, this thing is the future and it's dangerous and it's terrible because then it becomes more valuable if you're the one who can control it.

But the reality is that, as you were saying with Uber, that they're realizing, wait a minute,

Is this are we spending more on this thing because we got duped in this game?

And that often feels like a lot of automation where you pay more.

Like if you look at the breakdown of what it costs for like McDonald's to install and service those kiosks that you order from.

Yeah, like, you're still spending a lot of money.

Like, it's probably comparable, if not more, to what you would spend to just hire two teenagers.

And yet, teenagers can't fearmonger in the way that AI or automation can fearmonger.

That, like, no one's like, oh, my gosh, the teenagers are coming.

Oh, you got to be careful.

Yeah.

You better snap up all the teenagers before anybody else does.

Okay, maybe Jeffrey Epstein said that.

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