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.
Troy Millings says Nvidia is acting as the 'central bank' of AI
The GPU giant is essentially buying its own customers and funding its own competitors to make sure the AI bubble never pops.
Ian Bremmer says Anthropic's new AI model is dangerous to all of us globally
The geopolitical-risk expert argues that AI needs the same kind of emergency oversight finance got after crises, and he points to Anthropic as the warning flare.
Roman Yampolskiy says AI labs may have artificial scientists improving AI in one or two years
The AI safety researcher’s warning on the Danny Jones Podcast is specific, grim, and a little too confident about a clock nobody can actually read.
Ian Silber says AI is already an incredible product designer
OpenAI’s head of product design makes the case that designers aren’t doomed by AI, they’re late to the most useful tool in the room.
Ralph Adolphs says AI can diagnose your personality from one page of text
The Caltech neuroscientist argues that text may reveal more about your personality than your face does, which is bad news for anyone who thinks their punctuation is innocent.
Erik Allebest says poker players will care about ratings as much as money
The Chess.com CEO is taking the site's status machine to poker, where the chips are fake, the ego damage is real, and the rating may be the whole product.
Adam Ward says asking 'who's the best product engineer you know?' is the worst recruiting question
The Cursor head of talent argues that most companies hire from a 'funnel of doom' and end up with whoever was available, not whoever was best.
Tim Ferriss says AI could drive his nonfiction book sales down 67 percent in 2026
Ferriss's most useful AI warning isn't about robots writing books, it's about robots making certain books feel unnecessary.
Patrick Bet-David says OpenAI is losing the propaganda war and no major tech company is defending Sam Altman
The PBD panel framed Sam Altman’s problem less as an AI fight than a public legitimacy crisis.
Daniel Kokotajlo says mass unemployment starts in 2028 or 2029, after AI companies automate themselves first
The former OpenAI researcher argues that the scary part is not today’s chatbot taking your job, it is AI labs building superintelligence before the labor market even knows what hit it.
Sebastian Mallaby says the Trump administration took control of who gets Anthropic's cyberattack model
The Infinity Machine author argues that AI regulation has already moved from abstract safety talk to Washington deciding who can touch the dangerous stuff.
Nick Hanauer says Bernie Sanders's 50 percent AI ownership plan is common sense, not socialism
On The Diary of a CEO, the venture capitalist made the capitalist case for grabbing a public slice of AI wealth before the layoff machine starts printing money.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.