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You’re panicking wrong about AI (with Casey Newton) [Ad-free]
🕑 Added 2025-03-05 07:45:02 +0000 UTCOn the bad side, we have copyright infringement, exploitation, and misinformation; on the good side, we have its uses for brainstorming, editing work, and combating loneliness. On both sides, everyone is freaking out about AI — but are we freaking out about it for the right reasons? Casey Newton joins us to make the pitch that whatever you think, AI is not “crypto 2.0.” Everyone, in every generation, needs to take it seriously.
Our guest Casey Newton is a tech journalist who founded and writes for the Platformer newsletter (https://www.platformer.news/) and co-hosts the Hard Fork podcast (https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork/).
Credits
- Host: Ryan Broderick
- Producer: Grant Irving
- Engineer: Rebecca Seidel
- Researcher: Adam Bumas
- Business Manager: Josh Fjelstad
Comments
Aaron
Like Casey a lot, agree with most of his points but you gotta at least pay lip service to the environmental objections to this shit
Kayla Schwoerer
As a millennial professor, I consider it my duty to teach my Gen Z students where their files actually go when they hit ‘Save.’ I'm like a digital age- Marie Kondo every time I explain to them that having 27 versions of untitled.docx chillin on their desktop does not, in fact, spark joy (a reference they, of course, don't get). It’s a thankless job, but someone has to do it.
