Zoe Schiffer

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953 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Jun

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED · Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search Is Over; AI Gets Booed by Graduates · 21 May 2026 podcast

So it's real.

I mean, there's an impact on the market.

I mean, I actually think that this is going to be an issue in the next election, which is so interesting because I definitely wouldn't have said that a few months ago.

But I think, I mean, and this is, you know, Maxwell Zaff, one of our great AI reporters, has reported about Greg Brockman's donations to Trump and other MAGA leaders.

And he's talked to Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, who said that he feels like it's really important to give money to politicians who are bullish on AI.

And I think the subtext there is that OpenAI and other companies are actually concerned about the lack of popularity for what they're building.

It's going to be really interesting because I went down to Abilene, Texas with OpenAI a few months ago and I was really struck.

Ted Cruz was there, the mayor of the town was there.

It seemed like there was so much political support for this initiative and I was immediately thinking like,

I think that this is going to turn at a certain point.

Like right now, you're like, look, it's going to create all these jobs.

It's going to be so great.

We're going into these areas that didn't have a lot of economic opportunity, and we're creating it.

But the thing about data centers is not only do they spike the water bills of the people who live close by, energy bill, all of that, but even if they create a certain amount of jobs at the beginning, and many of those jobs are being brought in from other states, like you don't need that many people to run a data center once it's up.

So beyond the ever-increasing spending on AI, the latest releases, the suspected IPOs, yada, yada, there is also a more personal and strange side effect to the AI boom right now, what it is doing to family dynamics.

particularly what it's doing to the wives of men who work in AI or would like to be working in AI.

Specifically, the fact that these women are completely sick and tired of the whole damn thing.

Wired contributor Alessandra Ram reported on how AI has taken over some women's home lives, and she's joining us now to talk about that piece.

Hi, everyone.

I'm excited to chat with you.

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