Brendan McCord

4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 19, 2025 by Brendan McCord · across every show →

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Jun 19, 2025 neutral
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McCord: AI Mediates 20% of Human Waking Life
“The stuff we're building now, mind blowing statistic, but it mediates, meaning AI mediates, 20% Of waking life.”
Brendan McCord Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 36:03 AI Expert: What Scares Me Most (Here's What I Found): Brendan McCord
Jun 19, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
McCord: AI without Western values will become a perfect system of control
“So I think Elon's right. I think you need to have people that are focused on the human goods, focused on key ideas that underpin the West, building these systems. And if you don't have that, you're going to have one of the most perfect systems of control ever,…”
Brendan McCord Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 34:00 AI Expert: What Scares Me Most (Here's What I Found): Brendan McCord
Jun 19, 2025 negative
Opinion
McCord: Universities Produce Narrow Technicians or Conforming Ideologues
“You look across the landscape and you see universities almost without exception as being a place where people who are either narrow In their specialization, narrow technician or conforming ideologue who really is not thinking about these questions very deeply.”
Brendan McCord Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 36:57 AI Expert: What Scares Me Most (Here's What I Found): Brendan McCord
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Insight
McCord: Local context and ground-level service will be the key AI advantage
“What's going to matter is the dispersed local context. It's going to mat what's going to matter is the intimate knowledge of how to serve people on the ground. And the tools are going to be able to do magical things, but applying them in context is going to be…”
Brendan McCord Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 1:25:56 AI Expert: What Scares Me Most (Here's What I Found): Brendan McCord
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