#557 ART -Fear Versus Reality In The AI Age
Fear spreads faster than facts, and right now AI is the perfect vehicle for it. From my studio in Texas, I walk through why the loudest “AI will end the world” voices can be selling something else entirely: tighter control, slower competition, and a public primed to beg for regulation. We pull apart the idea that tech elites who sneer at faith still want a messiah and an apocalypse, so they elevate a computer program into a kind of substitute religion and demand the state enforce the creed.
Then we ground it in the real world: inflation, Federal Reserve interest rates, and the way official…
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