Can radical optimism about AI truly shape our future, or are we stuck in a cycle of doom-and-hype? This episode features an unfiltered debate with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly on why most fears about artificial intelligence might be missing the bigger picture.

• Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year By Collins Dictionary


• OpenAI CFO Says Company Isn't Seeking Government Backstop, Clarifying Prior Comment


• Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute' Into Law - Montana Newsroom


• Sam Altman's Worldcoin Project Struggles Toward Billion-User Ambition With 17.5 Million Sign-Ups


• Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup


• Exclusive: US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up


• Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network - Slashdot


• 12 Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree With 100%


• The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation


• How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia?


• What We Can Learn From Brain Organoids


• If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here's Where They Should Go


• LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Simulating and Analyzing Marketing and Consumer Behavior


• No. 10's synthetic voters


• Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow's NPCs: Non-Player Consumers


• Eric Schmidt: This Is No Way to Rule a Country


• My torture for you


• Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise


• 'A frightening development': How AI-Articles are flooding the internet with fake news


• Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost


• YouTube TV deal reportedly hung up on ESPN pricing as Disney loses $30 million a week


• How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online


• Tort Law museum visit


• Bread and Puppet Museum


• We're famous in Germany


• Brand new bridge

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kevin Kelly

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