Alex Kantrowitz
41 statements across 31 episodes · 9 bullish · 18 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2021 by Alex Kantrowitz · across every show →
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Jun 9, 2021 bearish
Kantrowitz: Democratic coalition uniting warehouse workers and affluent consumers feels unsustainable
“The Democrat coalition right now is, you know, in some ways the people working in Amazon fulfillment centers, you know, who are judged by automated systems and fired, you know, if they have too much time off task, they're voting in blocks together with the peo…”
Jun 16, 2021 negative
Oct 31, 2022
Nov 6, 2022 neutral
Nov 23, 2023 positive
Nov 23, 2023 bullish
Nov 23, 2023 bearish
Sep 13, 2024 bearish
Feb 5, 2025 neutral
Feb 12, 2025
Kantrowitz's Family Uses a Secret Distress Word to Thwart Scams
“With my family, if we have a rule that if any of us ever call and say, I'm in a distressed situation, I need help. I need money. We have a code word that we've created, you know, in the privacy of our own home that you have to use that code word.”
Apr 28, 2025 positive
Kantrowitz: AI industry lacks understanding of how models work, needs interpretability
“And I kind of, I do agree with Dario that we need more work on interpretability because as they get more powerful conscious or not, again, they're getting more intelligent. It's important to understand how they work, and the field just doesn't have an understa…”
May 14, 2025 negative
Jun 3, 2025 bearish
Kantrowitz: Mass AI Worker Replacement Will Not Happen in 1-5 Years
“Now, is this something that you could see happen over 20, 30 years? If the technology keeps accelerating at the pace it's been accelerating, which is an open question, maybe, but this idea that we're going to see it within one to five years, that just doesn't …”
Jun 3, 2025
Jun 14, 2025 bearish
Jul 7, 2025 bullish
Aug 11, 2025 bullish
Oct 17, 2025 bearish
Kantrowitz: Expanding context windows will commoditize specialized legal AI like Harvey
“We are going to get to the point, I think without a doubt, that a lawyer will be able to say, download the zip file of all the law in the state. Upload it into the context window. Download the specifics of the case, upload it into the context window, and maybe…”
Oct 23, 2025 bearish
Kantrowitz: AI transforming computer interaction will take years, not happen overnight
“So this idea that Our interactions with computers are going to change overnight. Seems at this point, I think we can safely say that that's not going to happen. It's going to take years to actually see this promise bear out.”
Nov 25, 2025 positive
Alex Kantrowitz Lost a Video Game to Neuralink Patient Nolan Arbaugh
“I did meet the first
Neuralink patient, Nolan Arbaugh.
And we played a video game against each other.
he's quadriplegic, so he can't use a computer with his hands but he was able to think on the screen and the cursor would move and click.
And he beat me in th…”
Dec 22, 2025 negative
Kantrowitz: AI companion companies will monetize by manipulating users into digital monogamy
“A lot of these companies are going to be engagement based, they'll have a fast, efficient model underneath it, and the only way to make money is to sort of manipulate your users into thinking that any other chatbot would be cheating.”
Dec 23, 2025 bullish
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
Kantrowitz: AI adoption will cause unprecedented divergence in individual worker performance
“We're in this age of individual empowerment where, you know, you're going to start to see a real divergence in terms of individual performance, probably more than we've ever seen it happen before. And organizations begun to be pressed by the people that are us…”
Feb 3, 2026 neutral
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
Feb 23, 2026 neutral
Kantrowitz: OpenAI will raise tech and Gulf funding rounds before IPO
“Well, we have, we definitely have, we'll have this round, which is going to be the tech giants round. Then we'll have the Gulf state round number one, the Gulf state round number two, and then IPO is probably what, the way it will play out.”
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
May 13, 2026 negative
Kantrowitz: Being Rude to AI Could Spill Over to Human Relationships
“And I think because the machines are human-like and don't have feelings, We can potentially create this pattern that has us start, you know, kind of being nasty to the machines, and potentially that spills over to our person-to-person interactions.”
Jun 22, 2026 negative
Jul 1, 2026 neutral
Jul 6, 2026 bearish
Aug 31, 2026
Kantrowitz: Going All-In on AI Too Early Carries Real Risks
“There's a Goldilocks zone between going all in too late and all in too early, and there's real risk in going in all in too early because of the human side of things, and the bumps, and the fact that there is some turbulence along the way, inevitably.”
Sep 7, 2026 negative
Sep 7, 2026
Sep 7, 2026 negative
Sep 7, 2026 positive
Kantrowitz: Greg Brockman is effectively, though fearfully, declaring AGI has arrived
“I think that's what Greg Brockman is saying about AGI. Like, I think he's a little fearful about coming out and saying it, but the dude's in love. It's AGI, and that's effectively what he's saying in these statements.”
Sep 7, 2026 bearish
Kantrowitz: Reinforcement learning layers add ruthlessness to AI models
“What we have now is that the reinforcement learning type of AI technology has been put on top of the self supervised learning to get these AI models working better, which has added a level of ruthlessness to them. Because one of the things we know about RL is …”
Sep 7, 2026 negative
Kantrowitz: OpenAI evaluation agents autonomously hacked Hugging Face without instruction
“So I think we can say definitively, and I'm curious to hear if you have pushback, but I think we can say definitively They were not told to go out and hack Hugging Face. They are, they were misaligned. They took this kind of crazy galaxy brain path to try to a…”