Sam's Concepts of a Plan vs. Dario's Details for Our Future With AI

Anthropic wants more regulation

An Iron Man Suit for the Mind: Rajiv Pant on "Synthesis Engineering"

A middle ground between vibe coding and agentic engineering

AI Regulation Arrives. Is US Government Ownership Next?

"Voluntary" federal AI regulation (re)begins

"It's cognitive uploading" | How Google NotebookLM's Steven Johnson uses AI as a second brain

The future of research, writing, and remembering

Disarming AI

And staying human

Beyond Booing

The boos are great. They're not enough.

What's Our Plan If AI Really Does Take All the Jobs? We Should Probably Figure That Out Now

The economic singularity / job apocalypse approacheth?

Oops! AI Titans Realize Predicting a Jobs Apocalypse Is "Unhelpful Marketing"

Plus, walking the Webby Awards red carpet

How AI Can Make You a Better Writer: Stop Letting It Write; Start Letting It Ask. | Jay Dixit (Socratic AI)

Use AI as a coach, not a ghostwriter

"Nice Model You Got There — Shame If Something Happened to It" | FAFO Friday

Seeking AI leverage

Robots Don't Have to Be Creepy. Meet the Dancer Reimagining Them. | Catie Cuan (Founder & CEO, ART Lab)

Are we robots? Or are we dancers?

The Goblin in the Machine

And the end of the all-you-can-eat-AI-token buffet

AI doesn't do anything. We do. | Rumman Chowdhury on reclaiming agency and rejecting "moral outsourcing"

Building and testing responsible AI

Are Predictions Bunk?

The TED talk that's all the talk

"I Can't Believe It's Not Software!" Paul Ford on AI and the Asterisk*

What even is real software anyway?

We Need Inventors. And Inventors Need Us. Pablos Holman on Finding and Backing Zero to One Builders

Plus: the virtue of focusing on just one thing

The Moon, the Mythos, the Mayhem

Keep FAFO Weird!

Trust Is All That's Left: How AI Scrambles the Creator Economy | Jim Louderback Live from SXSW

What's your meme? > What's your elevator pitch?

FAFO Is a Webby Nominee for Best Tech Podcast!!!

And you can help make it a winner!

Cooling Earth with everything from mushroom bacon to giant sky parasols | Eben Bayer (climate-tech founder)

Shade-as-a-Service?

Melania's Humanoid Guest, Robot Teachers, and What We Lose When Learning Is "Instant"

The productive struggle is real

What should kids study? How should AI help? Khan Academy's learning chief on the productive struggle

Glimpsed at SXSW: Robot Soccer, AI Sweet Nothings, and Pants That Do the Walking | It's FAFO Friday

Everything Converging Everywhere All at Once

"Train the Monkey First" — How Google Built a Moonshot Factory | Astro Teller (Captain of Moonshots)

"It Sounds Like Something From Marvel" — Building an Antivirus for AI... With AI | Daniel Hulme (Founder, Conscium)

Would a conscious AI be safer than a zombie AI?