A brief update on the AI apocalypse

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. My guest today on the gray area is Kelsey Piper. Kelsey used to write for Vox before she abandoned us very sadly. And now she's writing for the argument over on Substack, another excellent publication. Um, and Kelsey, I I brought you here today because I feel like you understand this world of AI uh better than anyone else or or as well as anyone else, and and maybe partly because you are of this world and you have been for

a very long time. You just you just you're like immersed in the culture. Um and so you just seem like the the perfect person to bring in to talk about this. That is my introduction of you. Would you object to any of that?

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