AI Could Mean 20 Years in Prison, Workers Become AI Managers, and A16Z Reinvents College
September 23, 2026: I unpack Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar's proposal to ban artificial superintelligence, pause advanced AI development, and impose prison sentences of up to 20 years for violations. ...
23 Sep 37min
From Cashier to Home Depot C-Suite, Middle Manager Backlash, Claude Hacks OpenAI, & AI Panic Returns
September 18, 2026: I look at the viral LinkedIn profile of Home Depot executive Anne Marie Campbell and why her rise from cashier to senior executive says something important about effort, loyalty, a...
18 Sep 37min
Who Watches Anthropic's AI Watchdog? Why Authenticity Fails at Work, & Zuckerberg Says the Market Can Keep AI Safe
September 16, 2026: I look at Anthropic's push for independent AI evaluators and why its preferred watchdog, METR, raises questions about conflicts, trust, and regulatory capture. Then I get into why ...
16 Sep 34min
Time to Kill AI? Anthropic Wants AI Slowed, Oracle Cuts Jobs, & Leaders Face a Civics Crisis
September 14, 2026: I look at Dario Amodei's essay arguing that frontier AI needs to slow down and why competitors publicly agreeing with him raises bigger questions about safety, regulation, IPO timi...
14 Sep 43min
AI Created 1M Jobs, Student Scores Hit Record Lows, and Anthropic's AI Panic Grows
September 11, 2026: I look at The Economist's analysis showing AI has created roughly 1 million American jobs so far, while the predicted jobs apocalypse still has not arrived. Then I get into the lat...
11 Sep 42min
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Extinction Fears, OpenAI Agents Claim a Math Breakthrough, & the Panic Behind the Headlines
September 9, 2026: I unpack the viral resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who warned that AI labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with human lives. Then I ...
9 Sep 46min
How To Lead A Multi-Year AI Transformation and the Critical Middle of Change
I talk with Adam Kautzner, President of Evernorth Care Management and Express Scripts and EVP of Customer Personalization for The Cigna Group, about what it takes to lead a major multi-year transforma...
7 Sep 44min
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, the Surprising Jobs Boom, and the Question of Whether AGI Has Arrived
September 4, 2026: I look at OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model and why even powerful AI agents still may not be ready to take over full jobs. Then I get into the August jobs report, which came in far str...
4 Sep 24min
