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How Should We Approach A.I. in 2026?
December 24, 2025·43 min·3 clips
Charles Duhigg reveals why comparing AI to telephones exposes our flawed binary thinking about technology.
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A sober AI conversation about politics, infrastructure, and power.
Tyler Foggett treats AI as a political force, not just a product pitch. In a conversation at The New Yorker Festival in the fall with Charles Duhigg, Cal Newport, and Anna Wiener, he returns to the gap between the promise that AI will make work easier and more efficient and the…
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