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The Man Who Built AI Says It Could End Us. Nobody Is Listening.
The man who helped build modern AI says we have roughly ten years to change course. He is not guessing. I want to tell you about a man. Not a journalist. Not a podcaster. Not someone with a book to sell or a documentary to promote. The actual man. One of three or four human beings on earth most responsible for making AI what it is today. And he is terrified of what he built. Who He Is And Why It Matters His name is Yoshua Bengio. He is the most-cited living scientist in the w
Michael Routhier
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The Man Who Built AI Says It Could End Us. Nobody Is Listening.
The man who helped build modern AI says we have roughly ten years to change course. He is not guessing. I want to tell you about a man. Not a journalist. Not a podcaster. Not someone with a book to sell or a documentary to promote. The actual man. One of three or four human beings on earth most responsible for making AI what it is today. And he is terrified of what he built. Who He Is And Why It Matters His name is Yoshua Bengio. He is the most-cited living scientist in the w
Michael Routhier
2 days ago6 min read
Kodokushi: The Lonely Death Epidemic Nobody in the West Is Talking About
In Japan, 77,000 people died alone last year; unnoticed for days, weeks, sometimes months. The conditions that caused it are assembling here. I want to start with a word. A Japanese word. Kodokushi. It translates, roughly, to "lonely death." And it means exactly what it sounds like. A person dies, alone, in their home, and nobody notices. Not for days. Sometimes not for weeks. Sometimes not for months. In Japan last year, nearly 77,000 people died that way. 77,000. In over 7,
Michael Routhier
3 days ago8 min read
Transcript: Episode 18 - Kodokushi: The Lonely Death Epidemic Nobody in the West Is Talking About
77,000 lonely deaths in Japan last year. The conditions that caused it are assembling here. Full podcast transcript below. Hey everybody, and I hope you are having a great week so far. Today's show is going to be a little deep. It's a conversation that I've been wanting to have for some time and for some might find it depressing. Some might find it absolutely ludicrous that this is occurring, but we need to have this conversation as a society and as just human beings. And I w
Michael Routhier
4 days ago10 min read
Zuckerberg Just Fired 8,000 People to Pay for AI. And His Stock Barely Flinched.
8,000 jobs. $145 billion in AI spending. The stock barely moved. Let me give you the short version first. Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp; is cutting approximately 8,000 jobs starting this week. On top of 1,000 cuts in January. On top of hundreds more in March. That's before whatever they're planning for August. At the same time, Meta has increased its capital expenditure projections for 2026 by up to $10 billion. Total AI spending for the year:
Michael Routhier
4 days ago6 min read
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