IM 837: Could Should Might Don't - Why Tomorrow Doesn't Feel Like Sci-Fi

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Ai, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Twit

4.2 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

With AI hype everywhere, are we confusing slick projections and sci-fi clichés for real progress? This episode exposes the flawed thinking behind tech's boldest predictions and dives into what your future with "intelligent machines" might actually look like—waffles and all.

Interview with Nick Foster
AI's $344 Billion 'Language Model' Bet Looks Fragile
Yann LeCun's mondo preso
Elon Musk's xAI Lays Off 500 Data Annotation Workers
Bessent: TikTok deal 'framework' reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday
The OpenAI paper on usage
Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope
ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification
Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope
A Maslow-Inspired Hierarchy of Engagement with AI Model
I Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
How an AI Giant Became Obsessed With an Albino Alligator
Amazon invests over $1 billion to raise employee pay, lower healthcare costs
The Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
Rest of World: A hidden network handles chats for OnlyFans stars. AI could soon take over
How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society
Roadwarden
David Lynch's quirky house

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nick Foster

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0:00.0	It's time for intelligent machines.
0:01.5	Paris Martinos here, Jeff Jarvis.
0:03.2	Our guest this week, Nick Foster, don't call him a futurist, but he did write a book about how to think about the future called could, should, might, don't.
0:13.0	And all the AI news coming up next on Intelligent Machines.
0:19.7	Podcasts you love.
0:21.3	From people you trust.
0:23.8	This is Twit.
0:27.6	This is Intelligent Machines with Paris, Martineau, and Jeff Jarvis, episode 837, recorded Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 should might don't it's time for intelligent
0:43.2	machines to show we cover the latest in AI and robotics and all the smart little do-dads and
0:49.7	googs surrounding you in your life.
0:55.0	That there is Jeff Jarvis.
0:57.0	He's Professor Emeritus of Journalistic Innovation
1:00.0	at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
1:02.0	at the City University of what?
1:04.0	Craig Craig, Craig, Craig,
1:06.0	McClare State University
1:09.0	and Stoney-Sooniebrook uh he is the author of the gudenberg
1:14.8	parenthesis magazine and what would google do look i see what would google do the closet yeah wow also
1:21.5	the web we weave it's nice to see you mr druggis Also with us the wonderful Paris Martin-O from Consumer Reports.
1:29.5	We're talking about you earlier, Paris.
1:31.2	I don't know if your ears were burning
1:33.2	because on Windows Weekly we talked about that.
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