The AI Riff (Episode 14)

Profit, Panic, and Playground Rules.

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AI isn’t an adult yet—it’s a teenager with car keys. Strong enough to get a job, reckless enough to crash the family car, and everyone’s scrambling to parent it differently.

This week on Who Really Holds the Remote? we tore into three early signals that matter more than the hype cycles:

• Klarna’s “AI glow-up” that looks suspiciously like firing humans and then quietly rehiring them. Efficiency is easy. Trust is expensive.

• Gary Marcus playing the family uncle: “This kid’s never going to amount to much.” Annoying, maybe—but regulators and lawyers love him, which makes him dangerous.

• Meta’s babysitting rules for kids and Elon’s “spicy mode” fiasco. Playground rules today are the regulatory precedent for everyone tomorrow.

By the end of the episode, we weren’t asking whether AI is “smart.” We were asking who grows it up first—markets, regulators, or customers.

If you’re building, funding, or just trying not to get steamrolled by this tech, this one’s worth a listen.

🎙️ Episode 14: Profit, Panic, and Playground Rules: What AI’s Growing Pains Really Tell Us

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