AEWCH 298: A.I. ERROR_ / 11 CONSIDERATIONS ON HOW TO PROCESS A.I.

Against Everyone with Conner Habib

Against Everyone With Conner Habib

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Friends,
One reason I started this show eight years ago was to have big talk instead of small talk, to get us past surface conversations and into thinking more deeply. I hate small talk is because it’s so algorithmic or pre-programmed. It's limited by its connection to the past and expectations. I don’t want to have conversations that could be produced by just anyone in any context with predictable results.

I wanted something more living, surprising, vitalizing; conversations that nourished pushing my thoughts and feelings and actions forward.

So the mission of this show has always been, in a way, to address to algorithm.

The conversations on AI in the public sphere have been so dead and dead-ended even when they’re well-meaning. My big problem is not that people aren't saying brilliant things about A.I. -- I'm not sure I'm up for that task either -- just that everyone is saying the same stupid things over and over. There are phony debates held with unearned urgency, wild projections based on investment fantasies, and anxieties produced by deliberate mystifying hype.

On this episode, I go over 11 thoughts I have on AI to get to where we need to go for a better base level conversation. My hope is this clears out some debris and helps us to start thinking about in new directions.

In other words, this is more about the discussion about AI than AI itself - . I don’t have a “side” on AI - but I want to talk beyond some of the most repeated points

I hope this offers a fruitful new starting place.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Abeeb.
0:03.1	Friends, one of the reasons why I started this show eight years ago was to host and encourage
0:08.5	big talk rather than small talk. Conversations with guests, of course, where we got to go down
0:15.0	whatever rabbit holes or strained paths we wanted to with the ideas we were working with at that time in our lives,
0:22.4	but also to encourage Big Talk in your life, the lives of all the listeners of this show,
0:29.1	to create new directions for thought and conversation.
0:33.6	So that depth was something that wasn't rude or weird. I noticed too often that people would
0:42.5	dismiss deep topics and call them stoner subjects or laughable, but continue to have very
0:50.6	surface conversations with each other. I wanted to move away from that because I don't like
0:54.6	that kind of conversation. The conversation in public about AI is the most small talky,
1:03.4	basic conversation that is out there right now. It's so dead, even when people are well-meaning,
1:10.4	even when people want to do something
1:13.4	really helpful with it or be enthusiastic about AI products or whatever. One of the reasons why
1:21.6	I hate small talk so much is because it is quite a bit like algorithms, like some of the tools that AI uses to function.
1:31.7	So I don't like conversations that could be produced by anyone in any context and produce predictable
1:38.9	results. I want something that's surprising, really human, starling, shocking sometimes, not confrontational necessarily,
1:47.7	but something that might make me confront myself, my own ideas, and my own sense of what's
1:54.7	possible even. The mission of this show, therefore, has been to address the algorithm in a way and to move past it.
2:03.8	So I've got to talk about AI.
2:06.8	On this episode, I'm going to go over 11 considerations on how to process AI just to try to set the base level of the conversation somewhere else than it's
2:19.5	usually set. You know, I have been listening to other people's podcasts about AI and reading
2:28.1	people's blogs and people's posts and all that, and it's just driving me crazy. Like, I listen to Confession. I don't
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