AI Can Get Attention, But Can It Build Trust?

Kanawha Valley Hustlers · May 19, 2026 · 1m

In this episode of the Kanawha Valley Hustlers podcast, I talk about why AI may be pushing us out of the attention economy and into the trust economy.

AI has made attention cheap. Anybody can now create endless content that looks polished, sounds professional, and feels like it came from a production team with a large budget. That used to be a signal of competence. If you looked good on camera and had strong production value, people assumed you knew what you were doing.

That signal is weaker now because AI can copy it. It can make someone look like an expert in seconds. It can generate the…