Is Artificial Intelligence Good, Bad, or Neutral? Nick Skytland

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🗓️ 8 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Nick Skytland is Vice President of Gloo Developer and AI Research, leading initiatives to shape open, values-aligned AI that supports human flourishing. Before joining Gloo, he spent over two decades at NASA as Chief Technologist, advancing early-stage technologies and building some of the largest open innovation communities in history. He is also co-author of What Comes Next? Shaping the Future in an Ever-Changing World.

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0:00.0	The number one use of AI in 2024, people were using it to generate ideas.
0:04.5	It's like, hey, give me a recipe.
0:06.0	Here's the refrigerator.
0:07.8	Write me a song.
0:08.9	Give me the directions.
0:10.2	The number one use of AI in 2025 was therapy and companionship.
0:15.2	And now it's like you can process your emotions.
0:17.4	It can ask you reflective questions.
0:19.8	It isn't really hard to imagine that we as
0:22.9	humans are going to use AI to mediate our experience in the physical world more and more.
0:33.5	Hey, friends, welcome back to another episode of Theologian Rob. My guest today is Nick Skitland, who is vice president of Glu developer, G-L-O, and AI research, leading initiatives to shape open values-aligned AI that supports human flourishing.
0:49.3	Before joining Glu, Nick spent over two decades at NASA.
0:55.5	That's crazy.
0:56.9	Dude worked at NASA.
0:58.3	As chief technologist, advancing early stage technologies and building some of the largest open
1:03.9	innovation communities in history, he is also the author of the book, What Comes Next,
1:08.7	Shaping the Future in an Ever-Ever-changing world.
1:12.1	Man, I love this conversation.
1:14.2	Nick was super knowledgeable, super kind and wise and down to earth, and we talked a lot about,
1:21.1	yeah, is AI going to kill us or save us?
1:25.0	Definitely not going to save us.
1:27.2	It might end up killing us.
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