214 million people saw this AI warning. So we called an emergency debate. The warning came from someone who had worked at both Anthropic and OpenAI. Then a current Anthropic employee backed it publicly. It had spread so far beyond the tech world that a friend of mine who cuts hair and has never really cared about AI messaged me asking, “What the hell is going on?” I then realised a lot of people were probably asking the same question. The problem is, when you speak to people who have spent years studying AI, you get completely opposing answers. So I brought four of them around the same table. Roman Yampolskiy is a computer scientist who coined the term “AI safety” and has spent years studying whether increasingly intelligent systems can remain under human control. Nate Soares leads the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and has spent more than a decade working on AI alignment. He believes we are moving too quickly towards systems we don’t yet know how to reliably control. Ed Zitron thinks much of the AI conversation has become detached from what the technology can actually do today. He believes the industry is overhyping it while distracting us from financial, environmental and social consequences already happening. Andrew McAfee is an MIT researcher and economist who takes a very different view. He thinks we spend so much time talking about what could go wrong that we barely talk about what AI could make better. And that disagreement is what made this conversation so interesting to me. We discussed things like: - How do you control something that eventually becomes smarter than you? - Are the biggest warnings about AI based on evidence or assumptions? - What happens to work and human purpose if AI becomes better at more cognitive tasks? - Are we ignoring problems AI is already creating because we’re obsessed with hypothetical future ones? - Why have Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Geoffrey Hinton all warned us about AI? The question I kept coming back to was simple: What is actually true? Depending on who you listen to, AI is either one of the greatest opportunities humanity has ever created or something we’re racing towards without understanding the consequences. Both claims deserve to be challenged. There were moments in this debate where I genuinely found myself moving between the arguments. That’s the value of putting people who fundamentally disagree in the same room. I didn’t want four people telling me the same thing. I wanted each of them to explain where the other side was wrong. If you’ve watched the last few months of AI news wondering what you’re actually supposed to believe, this conversation is for you. Our emergency AI debate with Ed, Roman, Nate and Andrew is out now ❤️👊🏾

Only 3 in 10 Americans socialise on a daily basis. So how good are we ACTUALLY at talking to each other anymore? Vanessa Van Edwards believes we’re living through a “connection crisis”, where conversations are becoming harder, more awkward and less satisfying, while more of our interactions are moving away from real face-to-face conversation. Vanessa is a behavioural researcher, international bestselling author and instructor at Harvard University whose work studies how people communicate, connect and understand each other. And she said something to me early in this conversation that really stayed with me: people who invest in conversation skills now are creating “career insurance”. She has spent years studying why some conversations seem effortless, why others die within minutes and what the best conversationalists are doing differently. We discussed things like: - Why “how are you?” and “what do you do?” can lead to dead-end conversations. - The 3 levels of conversation and how to move from small talk into real connection. - How awkward silence is one of our biggest conversational fears. - The questions that reveal someone’s values, motivations and personality. - 5 self-narratives that can influence how someone behaves at work and in relationships. - Why becoming better at conversation could become increasingly valuable as AI changes how we communicate. If you want to become better at talking to people, building relationships and having conversations people actually remember, I really recommend watching this one.

OpenAI spent $34 billion in 2025 and posted an operating loss of nearly $21 billion. Many times on the show, I’ve heard how AI is going to become the most valuable technology in human history. But when I saw those spending figures, I had to ask a very different question: do the underlying economics actually support the story we’re being told? So I brought in Ed Zitron. Ed is a technology writer, researcher and one of the most outspoken critics of the current AI boom. He writes 'Where’s Your Ed At', hosts the 'Better Offline' podcast and spends an extraordinary amount of time digging through company financials, infrastructure spending and the relationships between some of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley. His argument isn’t that AI is useless. His argument is that we’ve blurred the line between what these products can do today and the financial expectations we've placed on them. We discussed things like: - Why he believes OpenAI could become the centre of a much bigger financial problem. - The enormous amount of money being spent on data centres and whether the demand exists to justify it. - How money can move between AI companies, chip companies and cloud providers in ways that make the industry appear healthier than it might really be. - What could happen to markets, jobs and ordinary investors if the economics eventually stop working. I’ve had many conversations about how powerful AI could become, but this conversation forced me to look much more closely at the balance sheets underneath the hype. When trillions of dollars, massive global infrastructure and our economic futures are pinned to one narrative, we have to listen to the person standing on the other side of the room asking if the numbers add up. Whether Ed turns out to be right or wrong, these are questions everyone paying attention to AI needs to hear. Out now on all platforms ❤️👊🏾