Can radical optimism about AI truly shape our future, or are we stuck in a cycle of doom-and-hype? This episode features an unfiltered debate with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly on why most fears about artificial intelligence might be missing the bigger picture.

• Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year By Collins Dictionary
• OpenAI CFO Says Company Isn't Seeking Government Backstop, Clarifying Prior Comment
• Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute' Into Law - Montana Newsroom
• Sam Altman's Worldcoin Project Struggles Toward Billion-User Ambition With 17.5 Million Sign-Ups
• Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup
• Exclusive: US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up
• Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network - Slashdot
• 12 Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree With 100%
• The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation
• How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia?
• What We Can Learn From Brain Organoids
• If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here's Where They Should Go
• LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Simulating and Analyzing Marketing and Consumer Behavior
• No. 10's synthetic voters
• Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow's NPCs: Non-Player Consumers
• Eric Schmidt: This Is No Way to Rule a Country
• My torture for you
• Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise
• 'A frightening development': How AI-Articles are flooding the internet with fake news
• Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
• YouTube TV deal reportedly hung up on ESPN pricing as Disney loses $30 million a week
• How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online
• Tort Law museum visit
• Bread and Puppet Museum
• We're famous in Germany
• Brand new bridge

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kevin Kelly

Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

• zapier.com/machines
• ventionteams.com/twit
• Melissa.com/twit
• agntcy.org