Chris Hayes Makes His Curiosity the Antidote to Anxiety
5/11/202656 min
Chris Hayes’ antidote to anxiety is always curiosity. Whether on TV with "All In," on his podcast (aptly named “Why Is This Happening?”), or writing about our waning attention spans in his latest book, he looks to make sense of this era’s firehose of information by seeking out the reasons behind the very human decisions we make. This curiosity prompted a deep dive series on his podcast into artificial intelligence: "The AI End Game," tracing AI's evolution to how it will impact our democracy and what guardrails need to be applied. This week, Chris joins Nicolle to talk about how Democrats can rebuild faith in government in a “low trust” democracy, what we can learn from our political past “while not being obsessed with it and trapped in it” and what deeper questions we should be asking about AI. And in his search to understand this technology, he discovered an unintended source of inspiration because “it brings us back in some ways to what we find beautiful and thrilling about being human.”
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Chris Hayes· Guest0:28
I really think this comes down to something super fundamental about us as humans. We're the only species that can live in the Amazon and the Arctic, and the reason we can do that is we can acclimate to anything. It's the superpower of our species. Put us wherever, and we will acclimate. People acclimate to famine and to war. Part of our job in the discourse is to resist that normalization.
Nicolle Wallace· Host0:56
[upbeat music] Hi, everyone. This is Huge. My guest this week is my other half on big nights at this network. We make up one of television's odd couples, but there is no one who captures my attention more completely when the news is rolling in. Chris Hayes also plays a role off-camera as sort of an intellectual and emotional center for a lot of us. On the work front, his book, The Siren's Call, is all about the fight for the most precious commodity these days, our attention spans. Critical in this moment when