I'm About once a year, I try to do what I call a big picture episode.

These tend to revolve around some grand and probably far-off developments like societal collapse or seamless sex changes.

This is a big picture episode about something right in front of our faces. It's starting to feel like the AI takeoff really is afoot.

I can safely say that at this point without sounding like a crank or like I'm on drugs.

Now, stay tuned, I'll probably over-rotate and sound like that anyway today.

And of course, the future is unwritten.

The investment in AI is starting to look a little unhinged.

Maybe the AI boom is in its Pets.com stage.

Maybe we're in for a long stretch of plain old incremental change. But with that bit of butt covering safely lodged in the record, I am going to spend the rest of this discussion

hanging loose. My hunch is that AI is about to make things very, very weird.

I'm still not sold on the notion that it will radically transform our physical world anytime soon.

But it's worth exploring the possibility that major changes to art, culture, politics, and our perception of reality are right around the

corner. This is the Tech Policy Podcast. I'm Corbyn Barthold. Returning to the show is Richard Morrison,

senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

I'm not sure if he's going to do mental bong rips with me, or is just going to be my trip sitter?

We shall see.

Yes.

So I've been taking that online Shepa course.

So hopefully we can guide each other along the way.

The, you know, approaching the future of AI and doing mental bond rips, the question of, you know, about whether, you know, people will think we're on drugs thinking such big thoughts about AI. The question about whether people will think we're on drugs

thinking such big thoughts about AI, the question is which drugs? And I think you are sort of

approaching it from more of a hallucinogenic inspired, if only theoretically, view. Whereas, you know,

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