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This is a gray area. I am Sean Elling. My guest today is Charlie Warzel. He's a staff writer at

The Atlantic and the author of their newsletter, Galaxy Brain. Charlie wrote a piece about AI and what he calls a crisis of agency,

which is this feeling that so much of our lives online are being shaped and distorted by

bots, algorithms, and various AI generated content. Everything feels a little fake, a little

manipulated. If you spend any time at all online, you know what I'm talking about.

So we get into why the internet feels so strange right now and whether it's still possible to build spaces online that feel genuinely human.

Hope you enjoy it.

Charlie Worsell, welcome back to the show.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, man, it's been a while.

Let's talk about your recent piece in The Atlantic, right?

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