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26 subjects · 12 pro-AI · 13 anti-AI
Showing 26 profiles · 12 pro-AI · 13 anti-AI · 1 nuanced
Founder of Social Capital
Social Capital founder and All-In podcast co-host who has gone beyond investing in AI to building with it: his self-funded venture 8090 promises AI-written enterprise software at “80% feature complete” for a 90% discount.
White House AI & Crypto Czar
PayPal-mafia investor and All-In podcast co-host appointed White House AI and crypto czar in 2025 — the chief architect of America’s race-with-China, regulate-lightly AI posture.
Podcaster & AI Chronicler
Host of the Dwarkesh Podcast — the scaling era’s house interview show — and co-author of “The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025.” A believer that we are building genuinely intelligent machines, even as he argues AGI is further off than the labs claim.
New York Times Columnist & Podcaster
Vox co-founder turned New York Times columnist whose “The Government Knows A.G.I. Is Coming” episode pushed transformative AI into mainstream politics — and whose Abundance agenda, co-written with Derek Thompson, treats AI as central to the century.
Mathematician & Broadcaster
Cambridge professor of the public understanding of mathematics, author of “Hello World,” and host of Google DeepMind’s podcast — Britain’s foremost explainer of algorithms, clear-eyed about their flaws and “really optimistic” about AI.
Angel Investor & Podcaster
Angel investor behind early bets on Uber and Robinhood, All-In co-host, and founder of the LAUNCH accelerator. He calls this era “The AI Roaring 20s” and relentlessly evangelizes AI adoption to founders — while warning them not to become captives of the big labs.
Podcast Host & AI Researcher
MIT researcher turned podcaster whose marathon interviews with nearly every major AI figure reach tens of millions — consistently framing AI as “exciting and terrifying” but betting on the exciting half.
Founder of Linus Tech Tips
The Linus Tech Tips founder is tech YouTube’s designated hype-deflator on AI: his 2024 video “AI is a Lie” attacked dishonest AI marketing while defending machine learning itself as genuinely, demonstrably useful.
Author & Podcaster
The Tipping Point author and Revisionist History host says he’s “not an alarmist about A.I.” — framing it as a technology that makes human judgment more necessary, not less, and lending his voice to IBM’s AI-boosting Smart Talks podcast.
Founder of Conviction
Venture capitalist who left Greylock in 2022 to launch Conviction, a fund purpose-built for AI-native “Software 3.0” startups, and who co-hosts the influential AI podcast No Priors.
Entrepreneur & Podcaster
The Diary of a CEO host treats AI as the story of the decade — staging “emergency AI debates,” calling AI agents possibly “the most disruptive technology of our lifetime,” and urging his audience to adapt fast, even while accusing some AI CEOs of downplaying the risks.
Comedian & Podcaster
The former Daily Show host literally works for the AI industry — as Microsoft’s “Chief Questions Officer” he fronts the company’s AI-for-Good series The Prompt, and his own podcast preaches curiosity over fear: “I’m eternally an optimist in this space.”
Science Communicator & YouTuber
Co-creator of Vlogbrothers, SciShow, and Crash Course, and founder of VidCon. He draws a hard line down the middle of AI: as a utility — code, drafting, drudgery — it is “mostly, weirdly, kind of fine,” and he uses ChatGPT and ships his own AI-built software; as engagement-optimized slop and consent-free training it degrades the media ecosystem he helped build, which is why he savaged Sora 2’s “SlopTok” and demanded creators be able to opt out.
Filmmaker & YouTuber
The vlogger who defined YouTube filmmaking. He let ChatGPT direct a vlog in 2023 and pronounced the result soulless, and when OpenAI’s Sora app launched in 2025 he warned it would flood social media with “an endless dribble of computer-generated nonsense.”
Designer and host of Design Matters
The designer, author, and host of the long-running podcast Design Matters argues that AI can imitate a style but cannot make meaning, insisting that creative value lives in human experience the machine can never have.
Tech Critic & Host of Better Offline
Author of the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter and host of the Better Offline podcast — the loudest voice arguing that generative AI is an unprofitable bubble and “one of the most craven cons of the 21st century.”
Tech Writer & Podcaster
Writer on technology, finance, and labor and co-host of the This Machine Kills podcast, who argues the AI industry runs on manufactured fear — with companies like OpenAI weaponizing hype to secure deals rather than deliver value.
Actor
The Oppenheimer and A Quiet Place star whose unfiltered, mid-podcast reaction to AI “actress” Tilly Norwood — “Good Lord, we’re screwed” — became the defining soundbite of Hollywood’s revolt against synthetic performers.
H3 Podcast Host
The h3h3Productions co-founder and H3 Podcast host took the creator economy’s AI grievance to court — filing 2026 class-action lawsuits accusing Apple, Nvidia, Meta, and other giants of scraping YouTubers’ videos to train models that “could just replace real YouTubers.”
Technology Scholar
Monash University scholar of the political economy of technology and co-host of the podcast “This Machine Kills,” who coined “Potemkin AI” to describe systems that fake intelligence while running on hidden human labour.
Podcaster & Comedian
Host of The Joe Rogan Experience, the world’s biggest podcast, and a recurring AI alarmist — he called an AI-cloned version of his own show “very slippery” and keeps returning to the fear that humanity is building its own replacement.
Tech Journalist & Podcaster
The dean of tech journalism — Recode co-founder, host of On with Kara Swisher and Pivot — says AI is overhyped junk food people fundamentally do not like: “It tastes like a Twinkie… I don’t know if they can ever make it taste like an apple.”
Political Commentator
The Daily Wire firebrand behind “What Is a Woman?” is one of the American right’s loudest anti-AI voices — calling AI “art” “the death of the soul” and warning the technology will “destroy human civilization as we know it.”
Tech Critic & Podcaster
Canadian tech critic behind the Disconnect newsletter and the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, and one of the most relentless voices arguing that generative AI is an environmental and social disaster sold on hype.
Internet-Culture Journalist
Author of the Garbage Day newsletter and host of the Panic World podcast, Broderick is one of the sharpest chroniclers of how AI slop is hollowing out social media — and a champion of writing in a stubbornly human voice against it.
Neuroscientist & Podcaster
The neuroscientist, author, and Making Sense host has been warning about superintelligent AI since before it was fashionable — his 2016 TED talk argued we are “building some sort of god” and that humanity has failed to summon an appropriate emotional response.
