We have all these great productive technologies, but the managerial class, the executive class,

they've all realized how to capture the gains from those technologies.

So it's not that, you if I you know get to use chat gpity at work it's like oh great my job's done after 10 minutes

because I just whipped up the assignment that I had for the day.

No it's gonna I'm to be expected to do 50 of those assignments.

And then if there's 50 more assignments and they're each making that much more money,

where's that economic gain going to go it's going to go to the folks at the top and

and maybe I get a raise but I'm certainly not benefiting from the full scope of

the of the technological advancement or the increased productivity gains.

And that's been the story of the last 100 years. I'm John Favro. I'm Max Fisher and you just heard from today's guest longtime

technology columnist and writer Brian Merchant. Brian has written for

outlets like the LA Times and Vice's

motherboard. He's also the author of The One Device, The Secret History of the

iPhone and Blood in the Machine, which is a history of the Luddites and the

modern movement against big tech but Max this week you

chat with him about AI including one of the most ridiculous uses of AI we've

seen yet want to say more yeah people tune in for the interview you're going to

want to hear about this use of AI but

chatting with Brian was great he's done a ton of digging into how AI is actually

being used to the actual clients are the business models and it really changed

my view of this technology and how it works so people should tune in.

Cool all right we'll get to your conversation with Brian in a moment but first

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