Ed Bennett and Chris Boyer open the episode with a semi-rant on the AI marketing hype machine – billions pouring in, big-tech companies tossing money back and forth, and everyone pretending this is about “innovation” rather than feeding the same circular economy of ads, analytics, and inflated expectations.
Together, they debate whether AI will really “kill us,” economically or existentially – or if it’ll just quietly charge us another subscription fee before doing so.
Then Ed gets hands-on, showing how he used the Perplexity Comet Browser to automate vendor management on MarTech.Health – scanning, clicking, and categorizing HCIC sponsors like a caffeinated intern who never sleeps. Chris tests it across Google Drive and Dropbox, comparing how AI-powered browsers might actually make research faster… if they can stop breaking halfway through.
This week’s recommendations:
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares – a direct, unsettling argument that superhuman AI might not just disrupt us but destroy us.
- The Intelligence Explosion by James Barrat – a sobering follow-up exploring how AI could collapse economies and twist truth itself once it outsmarts humanity.
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