In this episode of What Do You Wanna Talk About? we welcome our first-ever guest, Ernest (our Science and Technology Correspondent!), for a conversation about technology that seems to be changing everything: AI. We talk about what AI means for our jobs, the economy, healthcare, and education—and, naturally, spiral into some bigger questions: Can we actually control these systems? What happens when they get really good at breaking the rules? Are we anywhere close to AGI?

We also get into the less sci-fi side of AI: data centers, privacy, and the uncomfortable reality that our data is part of the product. And we talk about what worries us most about the workforce—especially the possibility of eliminating entry-level jobs and, in the process, eliminating the very training ground people need to become experts. ...