Chris Hayes on Calibrating Your AI Anxiety
5/15/202647 min
How should you feel about the AI boom? In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel speaks with Chris Hayes about how to emotionally calibrate our response to this dizzying AI moment. Hayes describes why AI gives him “The Bad Feeling,” and how it led him to report on AI like an anthropologist would. The two discuss why AI is described as “the jagged frontier,” and they explore the distinction between using AI for creative thinking versus grunt work. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Atlantic subscribers also get access to exclusive subscriber audio in Apple Podcasts. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/Listener. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
Lighting is incredibly powerful because it reaches places that we can't see. When I was at RPI, my grandmother contracted a MRSA infection in a hospital. One of the cornerstones of my RPI training was to identify real-world problems and engineer solutions accordingly. That's what led me to essentially start VIVE, using light in order to kill germs in indoor environments. I don't think we would've been able to build it into a successful business without RPI.
Nicholas Thompson0:26
Learn more at rpi.edu/barraisers.
Speaker 30:30
You said this place was steps from the water.
Speaker 40:32
We just haven't found the steps yet.
Speaker 30:35
How much did we save?
Speaker 40:36
Enough.
Speaker 30:37
Enough to get lost?
Speaker 40:40
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Speaker 30:42
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Speaker 40:46
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Chris Hayes· Guest0:59
If you're having it do your brainstorming, like, your brainstorming muscles are gonna get weaker. [laughs] And I don't want my brain... Th- I- That's my livelihood. My career is coming up with stuff. I gotta keep that. I gotta keep that sharp. Now, maybe in five years they'll just have an AI do my show, and the AI will generate all the takes, and the AI will talk, and I'll be out of a job.
Charlie Warzel· Host1:25
Right.
Chris Hayes· Guest1:25
Fine. But until that happens, I don't want the AI doing that.