Zack Kass
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2,920 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5 Jul
Zack Kass’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Unless you work at one of these companies, unless you've been in a Waymo, and even then you're like, maybe I got lucky.
No one has any idea that Waymos are empirically multiple standard deviations safer than most drivers.
And certainly many standard deviations safer than senior drivers who are somehow still allowed to drive.
And that's just a huge problem because now more and more, the technological thresholds are moving so quickly that no one has any idea what they're actually supposed to adopt.
But the third reason is the one that you called out, which is that humans have an exceptional tolerance for human failure and none for machine failure.
And I stare at this all day.
I stare, I watch 1.3 million people die on the roadways and I watch Waymo swerve into the wrong lane and there's an international outcry to shut the whole thing down.
I don't not get it.
It serves us.
It's why this building will never collapse.
It's why planes don't fall out of the sky.
But it will have this strange buttress, this strange artificial limit to what we adopt because we are so willing to watch each other
fuck up.
And we're so unwilling to watch a machine do it because we assume that it's systematic and foundational failure.
And that's just going to present all over the place.
It's going to present everywhere all the time.
And it's going to be why we move pretty slowly through a lot of systems that could really meaningfully improve lives because we are afraid to, you know, for that 0.01% mechanical failure rate.
Totally.
The stages are enhanced applications, agentic or autonomous agents, and natural language operating system.
Enhanced applications is exactly what it sounds like.
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