Artificial Intelligence
The AI coverage collects the arguments the hype cycle skips. A former tech insider warns that many jobs have roughly three years left, a mathematician and Christian apologist says transhumanists are millennia late to the problem of death, and a physicist keeps insisting the output is not the same as understanding. The tone is skeptical, specific, and allergic to magic.
Erin Brockovich says the AI data center boom may really be a water grab
On This Past Weekend, Brockovich was skeptical of the sci-fi theories, but deadly serious about the water.
Elizabeth Stone says Netflix needs fewer narrow specialists and more systems thinkers in the AI era
Netflix’s CPTO argues that AI makes cross-functional judgment more valuable than one-lane expertise, though she’s not ready to throw engineering, design, or data science craft into the volcano.
Tom Ellsworth says IBM has 135,000 employees in India and only 40,000 in the U.S.
The PBD panel treated IBM’s brutal earnings reaction less like a bad quarter and more like a warning light for a company that may have outsourced its identity.
Noam Segal says tech workers fear doing more for the same pay more than losing their jobs to AI
The AI job panic has been sold as a robot replacement story, but Segal's survey says the more immediate fear is much more office Slack: congratulations, your output just became your new quota.
Sen. John Kennedy says AI could independently hack nuclear codes and launch missiles within five years
The Louisiana senator dropped a genuinely alarming AI prediction on a comedy podcast, sandwiched between Vienna sausage fishing tips and fig newton discourse.
Jeremy Grantham says investors should wish SpaceX fails because success would supercharge AI robots
The billionaire investor gives Steven Bartlett the rare anti-hype SpaceX take, then tells him his own stake may be sitting on a bubble story.
Jeff Bridges says a Big Lebowski fan theory claims Donnie never existed, and he thinks they might be right
The Dude himself has been sitting with a theory that would rewrite everything you thought you knew about bowling night.
Jeremy Grantham says US stocks may not recover for 20 years and Wall Street knows it
The veteran investor who called the 2000 and 2008 crashes says a 70% decline in US tech stocks would not be unexpected, and your financial advisor will never warn you.
Mo Gawdat says AGI is already here and your job has roughly three years
The ex-Google insider who wrote a book about AI happiness thinks the smarter-than-human threshold is not coming. It passed.
Sheryl Crow says a songwriter paid $5 to clone John Mayer's voice and she couldn't tell the difference
Crow heard a demo, assumed it was her friend, and only then learned any amateur can now buy a convincing replica of a working musician's voice for the price of a coffee.
John Lennox on Hell, AI, and Why the Output Is Not the Point
The Oxford mathematician and Christian apologist comes to Diary of a CEO to argue that consciousness, not computation, is what separates humans from machines, and that hell is something you choose.
John Lennox Says Transhumanists Are 2,000 Years Late to Solving Death
The Oxford mathematician makes his case that AI is idolatry, atheism is self-defeating, and Christ already beat Silicon Valley to the resurrection.
Mo Gawdat says everyone except China and America is about to become third world in AI
The former Google X executive's bleak AI forecast is less about killer robots than the UK paying rent forever to someone else's software stack.
Ex-Google Insider Mo Gawdat Says Your Job Has About Three Years
The former Google X chief business officer comes to The Diary of a CEO with a countdown clock and a dim view of Sam Altman's recent pivot to optimism.
Michio Kaku Will Not Tell You Whether Aliens Exist, No Matter What You Threaten
The theoretical physicist comes prepared with one answer for every question: maybe.
Natalie Dawson says you should not think about passive income until you have $1 million in the bank
The business operator’s blunt advice on The Diary of a CEO is useful, if a little too clean for the messy reality of getting rich.