Is AI Optimism In the Air?

NLW breaks down the fast-rising debate over whether AI tokens should be taxed, from proposals by Elizabeth Warren, Mark Cuban, and Dario Amodei to the deeper question underneath it all: what happens to the tax base if more productive work shifts from humans to agents? The episode ...  Show more

The annual summer AI slowdown panic has arrived early, this time built around token shortages, usage-based pricing, agent cost overruns, and the end of the brief subsidy era that made wild experimentation feel nearly free. NLW argues that the constraints are real, but they look l ...  Show more

In this episode of Bankless, Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and author of Super Agency, explores how AI is set to transform humanity and amplify individual potential. We dive into Hoffman’s vision of “super agency,” We examine AI's potential to democratize technology and ...

This week, with the tech world in chaos over President Trump’s tariffs, we look at how four specific companies are navigating the new day-to-day reality. Then, the A.I. researcher Daniel Kokotajlo returns to the show to discuss a new set of predictions for how artificial intel ...

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer at Google X, an AI expert, and a best-selling author. He has been recognized for his early whistleblowing on AI's unregulated development and has become one of the most globally consulted experts on the topic. With years of experienc ...  Show more

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