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November 12, 2025 • 169 mins

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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