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This Week in Startups · 2025-12-18 · 87 min · 17,108 words

INSIDE How AI Startups hire, AI Roundtable with Wade Foster, Mikey Schulman, and Ali Ansari | E2225

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It is true that people are getting isolated and that people aren't leaving their homes. I think it's a double whammy of the addictive nature of this technology and COVID just making people into homebodies. What are your thoughts, Mikey? Most of this isolation does not come from AI. It predates it.

It's a lot of social media. You can say there are pros and cons of social media. Imagine you can give the entire world a median competent therapist with AI, like that's probably good for some of the mental health crises that we face in this country. To me, it's just like somewhat incongruent to say that the correct solution to that problem is to ban AI.

You're probably gonna make things worse. Human fulfillment is really important. Probably working is an important part of being fulfilled, but it's actually kind of amazing when you see some of the stories and you know how many people you make smile every day. How are you thinking about raising kids into this crazy addictive soup.

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