AI
also referred to as: ais · artificial intelligence
169 statements across 77 episodes · 68 bullish · 61 bearish · 70 people on the record · first statement Oct 9, 2020 by Sean Weisbrot · across every show →
Everything said about AI, oldest first
Oct 9, 2020 positive
Dec 8, 2020 bullish
Jan 15, 2021 neutral
Weisbrot: AI-literate younger professionals will replace workers refusing to adapt
“So I think what people should be worried about is not that automation will take over their job, but that if they can't learn to work with artificial intelligence to make better decisions quickly, that they'll be replaced by younger people who can.”
Mar 20, 2021 neutral
Hurst: Healthcare AI will take ten years to mature
“AI is entering the space. I think the thing there and why it's going to be something that is going to be more on the 10 year maturation cycle is because it's going to be diving into a lot of data lakes and it's going to be needing a lot of learned experience f…”
Mar 24, 2021 bullish
Mar 24, 2021 bearish
Parrish: AI building its own application builders is over 20 years away
“Even though we can use voice to no code, we won't be able to use AI to just build the application builder itself likely by that point, just because there's a lot of server management logic and stuff like that, that needs to happen on the backend for that suppo…”
Sep 16, 2021 bullish
Sep 16, 2021 positive
Schneider: Governments cannot easily manipulate global AIS maritime tracking data
“Then you have forms of information such as AIS data. So every ship around the globe has, you know, think of it as a collision warning system, a ship to ship communication system. And these are reporting the locations of the ship, the name of the ship, and this…”
Sep 16, 2021 neutral
Schneider: AI trust will rely on observed history, like human relationships
“You just don't understand it, and you need to build up that shared history together to understand, is this something to be trusted? Is this something to be feared? And just like a I mean, a machine learning model, you're gonna see different things that you did…”
Sep 16, 2021 neutral
Schneider: Physical architectural limits reliably prevent rogue AI behavior
“Make an AI as smart as you want, does that mean that it can figure out, again, how to defy gravity, how to travel through time? Some of these things are just physical challenges. You can't do something that isn't physically possible. So if you design a system …”
May 10, 2022 neutral
Weisbrot predicts AI adopters will replace non-adopters in the workplace.
“Now in the 20 twenties, but I think even more importantly towards the end of this decade, possibly more important in 20 thirties, if you don't know how to work with an AI to complete your job, you will lose your job to someone who will.”
May 10, 2022 bearish
Weisbrot predicts individuals must own AI by 2040 to avoid economic subordination.
“You know, there's a good chance that by 2040, if you don't own your own AI, you will be owned by an AI that Google, Facebook, Apple, or Facebook, you know, one of these companies own. Like you basically have 20 years to make your money or you're going to becom…”
Feb 22, 2023 neutral
Lilivik: Focal Point lacks the data scale to deploy AI currently
“Not as of yet. We are, you know, we're crowdsourcing a lot of data. And what we're looking for are trends and patterns that we can sort of say, all right, in, in IT services, or, you know, you picked on Slack, so I'm going to pick on Slack too, right? You can …”
Apr 19, 2023 neutral
Huselstein: AI systems inherently cannot eliminate temporal knowledge bias
“There is almost no inherent way for the system not to be biased because at the end of the day, what is this knowledge that it's fed into? It is. Biased on, even if it's academia, it's only biased on the state of knowledge at the point in time, even if you can …”
Apr 19, 2023 neutral
Apr 19, 2023 neutral
Huselstein: AI's cheating advantage on essay questions will be short-lived
“There's probably going to be an unfair advantage for a very short amount of time when it comes to creating answers to essay questions or whatever because rightfully so people are developing programs that make it easy to track.”
May 25, 2023 bullish
May 30, 2023 positive
Vysotsky: AI answers simple consulting questions better than creative human consultants
“Unfortunately sometimes they just misguide our clients because there are some very simple, particular answers to our clients' questions. But if we deal with human beings, we all are creative and we want, want to enhance, we want to add something new. So, and I…”
Jun 14, 2023 bearish
Jun 14, 2023 negative
Schmidt: Using AI to infer candidate demographics is a massive mistake
“It should not be making decisions, particularly in the hiring process based on those types of things, right? It should not say, oh, this text feels like it was written by someone who identifies as a female, right? Like if it starts to introduce those sorts of …”
Jun 14, 2023 negative
Jun 14, 2023 negative
Jun 27, 2023 neutral
Weisbrot: AI in business operations requires prerequisite data automation foundation
“AI is mostly useful for a business in its operations. And the only way that the AI can be useful in its operations is if you've already built a foundation of automation and integration within your operations so that the AI can pull the data from those differen…”
Jul 5, 2023 neutral
Jul 5, 2023 positive
Jul 5, 2023
Jul 5, 2023 neutral
Weisbrot: Zuckerberg Pivoted Meta To AI Because The Metaverse Was Overweighted
“I think in the case of Facebook, he realized that his metaverse play was, I don't want to say doomed, but that he was way overweighted, and he was going to have massive problems if he continued to put energy into it, and he shifted to AI.”
Jul 20, 2023 bearish
Foster: Entrepreneurs expecting to outsource product creativity to AI are dead wrong
“But I don't think that you get to kind of like outsource creativity as a result of this. And I think there's a lot of entrepreneurs that expect that you will be able to do that. And I think that that's dead wrong, at least for the technology as it stands today…”
Jul 20, 2023 positive
Foster: AI will automate data-driven product decisions to eliminate human error
“AI is going to have a really big impact on product management as well, right? You know, because a lot of the decision making, which used to have to be human powered, human centered, can now be kind of like delegated to a machine, which might be able to make be…”
Jul 20, 2023 positive
Foster: Product managers should not worry about AI replacing them anytime soon
“I think that there's a situation in which the, you know, best product managers could ultimately be beaten once there's actually an underlying model behind these things down the road. But we're talking way in the future at this point, and I don't think that any…”
Jul 20, 2023 bullish
Jul 20, 2023 bullish
Jul 20, 2023 bearish
Weisbrot: AI will shrink product teams, consolidating work to senior leaders
“So I think that there may be less people on a product team. I think maybe it'll be delegated to someone of a higher level position, maybe like a chief product officer, maybe a product director. Maybe you won't have several people because you can use software t…”
Aug 15, 2023 neutral
Aug 15, 2023 negative
Reyes: AI cannot replace the randomness and friction of human relationships
“No AI can replace your family and your friends. Unless you want people to be optimized to you. But I think the wonderful thing about people is that they are random and then, and you can control them. So then you'll never have optimized people for you. And that…”
Aug 15, 2023 negative
Reyes: Next major war will be fully automated and AI-powered
“I think the next big war is going to be fully automated. Like the problem is that it's going to be fully automated, but it's still including humans. So then we'll just have a massive chop, chop, chop of people. And it's gonna be, like, drones and chips and, li…”
Aug 15, 2023 negative
Aug 29, 2023 neutral
Aug 29, 2023 bullish
Aug 29, 2023 bullish
Oct 24, 2023 bearish
Weisbrot: AI will probably not replace lawyers and doctors
“A lot of people say, oh, we're going to replace lawyers and doctors. Well, probably not. I mean, sure, the AI can go through all the legal files and all of the statutes and, or all of the, you know, images of cancer versus not cancer, et cetera. There's all so…”
Oct 24, 2023 positive
Chalana: AI is 'assisted intelligence' meant to augment, not replace workers
“I think of AI as an assistant, assisted intelligence, not artificial or augmented intelligence. So I think of this as really helping people with productivity improve improvements and just taking some of the routine stuff out of your out of your plate. It's all…”
Nov 21, 2023 positive
Nov 21, 2023 positive
Nov 28, 2023 bullish
Tulla: AI health companion bots will soon communicate and support patients
“Today I think one fix at least will be AI. And the fact that, you know, we will be able to build these companion bots companion AIs that are able to communicate with people, talk to people, and be there when you need support. And that will happen, I think, in,…”
Jan 2, 2024 neutral
Jan 2, 2024 neutral
Smith: AI models are better at catching rule violations than obeying constraints
“One of the things that's interesting about AI is that it is better as a tattletale than it is at obeying, and so you can say, here's the rules, only do this, and then it spits back something that doesn't obey the rules, and you say, did that obey the rules, an…”
Feb 13, 2024 negative
Mar 26, 2024 positive
Jun 18, 2024 negative
Weisbrot: AI in Recruitment Will Only Worsen Hiring Bias
“I think AI has really only the potential to make bias worse because You're enabling someone who could potentially be racist or potentially be sexist or potentially be ageist to program the thing that's going to determine the future of the company and the appli…”
Aug 11, 2024 positive
Dubois: AI yields millions in savings on century-old industrial processes
“One of the things that we are seeing now is that even well-established processes, processes that maybe has been around for a hundred plus years we're able now to apply AI to and find those percentage improvements that equate to millions of dollars.”
Feb 25, 2025 bearish
Feb 25, 2025 bullish
Golden: All software will move from UI clicks to natural language prompting
“Candidly, that's where I see all software going. At the end of the day is where we don't learn the clicks and the this and the that or whatever, but we just ask it. The onus will be on you to learn how to communicate. And that's a lot, and that's certainly a l…”
Mar 11, 2025 neutral
Apr 8, 2025 positive
Apr 15, 2025 bullish
Lundin: Doubting AI permanence is like dismissing PCs as a fad
“AI is here, you know, and if you're somebody who's fighting the idea that, well, I don't know if AI is really a good thing, AI is going to stay or not. Well, I mean, you can be that same person who thought the personal computer was just a fad.”
Apr 15, 2025 bearish
Apr 15, 2025 neutral
Lundin: Sales is 75% science framework and 25% human attributes
“I believe sales is on, I believe sales is a 75% framework in science, 25% kind of individual attributes, how you say the thing, whatever, which AI could figure out pretty quick, is it harder than I'm giving it credit for right now? Yeah.”
Apr 22, 2025 negative
Struppelhoff: AI Can Generate Code, But Cannot Design Software Architecture
“It will take. Your natural language prompts varies, vary directly. It's not going to ask probing questions back to you. It's not, well, I understand what you're asking, but let's talk about the larger picture here. How frequently do you expect things to change…”
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Brand: Core AI challenges have not changed since the 1970s
“In the seventies, it was very different. It was symbolic AI. It was theorem proving. It was inference engines rather than giant matrices. But the problems we had, well, there wasn't enough data. The data wasn't good enough. There was confusion about what it me…”
May 9, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Businesses claiming AI won't eliminate jobs are lying
“No matter how much anyone says AI is not going to be implemented into my business in order to remove humans. Yeah, no, you're wrong or you're lying because everyone, especially in this kind of a climate is going to fire people and look to replace them with hum…”
May 9, 2025 neutral
Hale: AI workflows follow a 10-80-10 rule requiring heavy human refinement
“Think of a formula of 1080 10, right? 10% is you and your initial idea and creativity. Then you put it into AI, boom, 80% gets produced. And then there's always that, you know, human touch at the end. Be prepared for. Sometimes it expands into, you know, 40%.”
May 13, 2025 bullish
Goleshuk: AI will compress hiring decisions to hours or minutes
“The whole decision-making process can be as quick as, you know, like hours or even minutes rather than previously you had People in the middle trying to score, analyze, and review, and schedule, reschedule at least interviews and all that. So, so yeah, I think…”
May 13, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: AI cannot recognize when candidate personality outweighs technical skills
“I think when you don't have a human there, the AI doesn't have the emotional capability to understand that the company would benefit from having someone that may not have the same level of skill as another applicant, but may have a better personality fit.”
May 13, 2025 positive
May 23, 2025 positive
Jun 10, 2025 bullish
Jun 10, 2025 neutral
Jun 10, 2025 bullish
Jun 10, 2025 bullish
Jun 10, 2025 neutral
Jun 10, 2025 bearish
Jun 13, 2025 positive
Jun 13, 2025 bearish
Jun 13, 2025 bullish
Jun 13, 2025 bearish
Jun 20, 2025 positive
Stuart Cohen: AI Has Substantially Improved Search Across Media Licensing Platforms
“So what is getting better and what AI has really helped with is search. So that way you could really pinpoint exactly what you're looking for and hopefully find an image or a video clip that Matches exactly what you're looking for.”
Jun 20, 2025 bearish
Stuart Cohen: Large Ad Agencies and Corporations Refuse to License AI Content
“And I think a lot of the large advertising agencies
And or corporations will not use anything generated with AI.
They may come up with concepts on what they want to create using AI, but they will not license any AI content for that specific reason.”
Jun 20, 2025 negative
Stuart Cohen: AI-Generated Submissions Make Finding Relevant Licensing Assets Harder
“There's still a lot of players, you know, there's still players that are creating a lot of content now with AI and pushing it into licensing content. And some of it's great and some of it's garbage. And I think it's making it harder for the end user to sort ou…”
Jun 26, 2025 bullish
Weisbrot: Voice and camera access are the future of AI communication
“The reason why I'm focused on interviewing in voice mode for all of these different AIs is because I believe the future of AI communication will be based on voice and possibly even with the AI having access to our camera to be able to see our faces and our exp…”
Jun 26, 2025 bearish
Weisbrot: AI acting as CEO could eventually tank entire companies
“Honestly, I haven't really seen AI be implemented in any one business to a large enough extent that it actually had the ability to tank a company, but I think it's something that we will be able to see coming in the future. I think possibly it will come with p…”
Jun 27, 2025 negative
Brandon Wolf: PE Cuts Corners for Margins Instead of Investing in AI
“What I've noticed in private equity and some other places is Sometimes to boost margins or make the business look really profitable in the short term, people will make these sort of like naive short-term decisions, but in reality, everybody should be investing…”
Jul 4, 2025 bearish
Jamison: AI Venture Bets Resemble Airlines With High Capital and No Moats
“If you take all the profits of all the airlines over time, it's negative for investors. Like shareholders have had a negative return for that because they've just kind of competed themselves away. There's no giant moat to get those monopoly profits. And it's a…”
Jul 4, 2025 neutral
Jul 4, 2025 bullish
Weisbrot: Businesses Face High Disruption Risk Without Rapid AI Adoption
“The way that I look at AI is if you don't embrace it, the chances of you being upended by a company that is, is very high. And so I feel like everyone has no choice but to put AI into their business as fast as possible, which is unfortunate because there's not…”
Jul 18, 2025 bearish
Jul 18, 2025
Weisbrot: Building our 2020 AI product today would cost thousands, not millions
“If I were to have started that business today, I could have had the entire thing working with the AI cost maybe a few thousand dollars and take like two or three months. But it's a, it took two and a half years and cost over a million dollars and we still didn…”
Jul 18, 2025 negative
McKay: AI podcasts will fail because humans cannot connect parasocially with AI
“They'll ultimately go and die because humans are Inherently lonely, or at least the majority of the human race would describe themselves as lonely or close to it, and they want to hear two people have a conversation and connect, and they want to connect in a p…”
Jul 18, 2025 neutral
Jul 18, 2025 positive
Jul 22, 2025
Jul 25, 2025 bearish
Jul 29, 2025 bullish
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Welser: AI's true risk is humans becoming too dumb to make decisions
“I'm not really worried about AI becoming so smart that we have our, you know, AI overlords. I'm worried about us becoming so dumb That we are just reliant upon something to make any decision. We're reliant upon something to just tell us the answer.”
Aug 12, 2025 bullish
Twa: A single operator using AI systems can run three e-commerce companies
“Instead of having 10 people behind it, I have one operator that can run an entire company with five systems. And with that, I can have one operator run three of those companies comfortably without spending 80 hours a week doing it.”
Aug 26, 2025 negative
Aug 26, 2025 negative
Spahr: Journalists immediately delete suspected AI pitches from their daily inbox
“And from a media point of view, when journalists see that and they kind of get the sense of, oh, this is AI, they hit delete because journalists are reading to delete. They get about a hundred to 200 pitches each day, and they are just trying to get to the goo…”
Aug 26, 2025 negative
Aug 26, 2025 neutral
Aug 26, 2025 positive
Spahr: Corporate communications will be forced to sound more human
“People are going to have to sound more human in this age of intense AI, and I think that's going to change the whole field of corporate communications, because right now there's nothing that sounds more robotic than corporate comms, and I think it's going to n…”
Aug 26, 2025 positive
Spahr: AI search engines prioritize earned media over paid placements
“AI prioritizes the content that is earned by journalists and media outlets that are respected. It also prioritizes media outlets that are very niche and very in the weeds, if you will, but it doesn't really get excited about media outlets that are obviously pa…”
Aug 26, 2025 bullish
Spahr: Persistent user memory will be AI's next major step
“I think the next step of AI is really going to be AI remembering our settings, Because I think the challenge is, is that each time we go into a ChatGPT or Claude or Brock session, it's almost tabula rasa, and it forgets your preferences, it forgets your voice,…”
Aug 26, 2025 bearish
Sep 16, 2025 bearish
Sep 23, 2025 bearish
Sep 23, 2025 bullish
Sep 23, 2025 bullish
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Bhargava: NB Group avoids using AI primarily as a cost-cutting tool
“There are certainly private equity investors who are pursuing Strategies that incorporate AI as a cost cutting tool to, you know, improve profitability of invest, you know, in businesses that they invest in. That's not something we've. Really pursued.”
Oct 14, 2025 neutral
Oct 14, 2025 positive
Lechner: Public thought leadership is sufficient to build effective AI models
“If you just compile, I guess you don't need their, like, IP necessarily to create something that's maybe not perfect, but good. A lot of people who spend a lot of time sharing their thought leadership who are doing interviews, I mean, there's nothing, you can …”
Oct 14, 2025 bullish
Oct 14, 2025 positive
Lechner: Monthly employee AI build presentations drive adoption better than mandates
“It's hard to be top down and tell your employees you need to be using AI. You can't really control what they're doing, and so what they proposed is at the end of each month, everyone needs to either, like, build a new workflow or a product or something using S…”
Oct 21, 2025
Bilkowski: AI features introduce significant variable costs to traditional SaaS economics
“For the longest time, the incremental cost of serving an additional customer has been net negligible, effectively zero for AWS storage network and compute. And so now companies, as they're building in AI enabled capabilities into their platforms are seeing sig…”
Oct 24, 2025 bullish
Oct 27, 2025 negative
Ethan Monkhouse says AI clippers like Opus inherently misjudge content novelty
“Inherently the way AI approaches it is wrong in the sense where value for online is generally going to be telling people something they don't know. Whilst tools like Opus, they score based on their perception of value. Well, it's going to be things they do kno…”
Oct 27, 2025 neutral
Nov 11, 2025 positive
Nov 18, 2025 positive
Nov 18, 2025 positive
Ustinov: AI Replaces Static Spreadsheets by Dynamically Rebuilding Data Contexts
“Whatever columns you choose will stay there forever. But with AI, with full context of your research files, you can rebuild these things on the fly. And again, you're still responsible for everything, for any decisions, analysis, highlights, everything. But it…”
Nov 25, 2025 bullish
Nov 25, 2025 bearish
Weisbrot: Companies replacing workers with AI will quickly regret mass layoffs
“We're probably all finding that while there's a rush to implement AI within the business operations, that they will very quickly go, whoops, I probably shouldn't have fired those 10,000 employees or those hundred employees because the AI isn't really capable o…”
Dec 16, 2025 bearish
Dec 23, 2025 bearish
Weisbrot: Replacing junior roles with AI will create senior talent shortages
“The problem is something long-term where if AI right now can replace or prevent the need to hire someone junior. And we'll only get better over time, but a human wants the opportunity to get better so they can reach the mid or senior level positions, but there…”
Dec 23, 2025 negative
Wightman: AI generally sucks at public-facing creative and written work
“Again, with, in our business at least, we're pretty careful about how we use it for public-facing creative work, for public-facing written work. Because I think it generally sucks at those things, and I think, and many people I'm sure would agree with this, th…”
Dec 23, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Companies should refuse to hire candidates not actively using AI
“Whether you're trying to hire an employee or whether you're trying to find a CFO or whatever it is you're looking for, if they are not already using AI and promoting to you the fact that they're using AI, you probably shouldn't hire them because you're not goi…”
Dec 23, 2025 positive
Wightman: Founders can prompt AI to simulate specific journalists for media training
“One of the more interesting things that PR has been good for, and any tech founder, regardless of the stage they're at, can do this. It's a really useful media training tool. So you can ask AI, you can feed it a bunch of articles from John Smith, who's a journ…”
Dec 23, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Corporate AI layoffs are largely an excuse to cut headcount
“A lot of companies have blamed AI for firing people. I think it's just an excuse for a lot of these companies to just get rid of people. I think the companies that are actually letting go of people, it's not because AI is replacing them.”
Dec 23, 2025 negative
Wightman: AI has permanently eliminated the need to hire entry-level agency staff
“In terms of knowledge work, which PR absolutely is, in terms of knowledge work, AI has meant for us that we haven't needed to hire particularly more junior people. We have been able to outsource a lot of the tasks that might have been the work I did when I was…”
Jan 6, 2026 positive
Sadan: Humans Are Still Needed to Create Unique, Trustworthy Content Over AI
“So it's not about just adding more content to your website or having AI just spit out more content than adding those. It's really thinking about You know, how do you, how is your content relevant coming from a trust? How is that content trustworthy? Is it uniq…”
Jan 20, 2026
Cakir: Leaders amplify AI fear internally due to alarming media coverage
“I think that the leader is in fear, first of all, because of the news and what's happening outside. So they fear it and they're trying, like, they're kind of amplifying that fear internally. A lot of leaders, I'm not going to say all leaders, but a lot of them…”
Jan 20, 2026 bullish
Jan 20, 2026 bullish
Jan 20, 2026
Cakir: Companies need external AI trainers because top-down mandates spark panic
“You got to get a third party trainer. You got to get somebody to come in and help you train your whole team. Because when it comes from the leader, it's like, oh shit, you know, my boss is telling me to use it. If I don't use it, I'm in trouble. If I use it we…”
Jan 20, 2026
Cakir: AI labs market through fear because negative news amplifies faster
“Good news positive news doesn't amplify. It doesn't travel very fast. But negative news and scary news, news full of fear travels very fast and it amplifies very fast. So how do you market yourself is by saying a hundred million jobs are going to get lost to m…”
Feb 3, 2026 positive
Putra: AI automation improves output quality rather than cutting total hours
“I wouldn't say we've saved a ton of time, or maybe we have, but we've redeployed it anyway. We're not just like working less, but I would say our outputs are better. Our understanding is better because again, like these AIs are keeping notes and helping us thi…”
Feb 3, 2026 positive
Feb 3, 2026 bullish
Putra: AI gains will drive massive public and private equity windfalls
“I think one of the thinking is that you'll see an astronomic inflation, economic value in the stock market. If you can get money in there, there's a chance you can be okay. Furthermore, if you can get money into private listings, so venture, angel, and you can…”
Feb 3, 2026 bearish
Feb 3, 2026 bearish
Weisbrot: VCs will only fund AI-native and agentic software startups
“Because if you talk to VCs, they don't care about traditional SaaS with AI on top. They want AI native. So, if it's gonna be a fundable business, it has to be an AI native type of system that's agentic and fully automated and all this shit, or nobody cares.”
Feb 3, 2026 bearish
Weisbrot: AI will collapse global financial systems within five years
“I think the smart people understand that there's only really a few years before five. Right. I think five is generous before things are really bad in that regard. And so like people say, oh, we're in cycles. Like, I don't think we're in a cycle. I don't think …”
Feb 10, 2026 bullish
Wehn: AI Enables Value-Based Software Pricing in Heavy Industry
“For us, what we see is that the willingness to spend money on software has significantly changed because of AI. AI is not seen as a tool the way that any software application has been seen. AI is seen as value and return on invest because it can do work. So th…”
Mar 10, 2026 negative
Omeed Tabiei: AI Gave Client Completely Wrong QSBS Advice in Buyout
“We were just advising a client on a buyout yesterday and the AI is just like feeding him completely wrong information about qualified small business stock. And how to structure the deal, which is actually like a huge pain as a lawyer when people, you know, bri…”
Mar 24, 2026 bearish
Apr 3, 2026 bullish
Simhi: Shenzhen leads the world in robotics and AI innovation
“It's the most modern city in the world. It's leading the world with leading the world with innovation in the fields of like robotics and AI. So I think if people want to have like a glance about the future, how the future is going to look like, they should vis…”
May 26, 2026 negative
May 26, 2026 bearish
May 26, 2026 bullish
Jun 9, 2026 bullish
McGregor: AI infrastructure management will accelerate 6G rollout to three years
“You know, I think that six G is going to happen quickly because a lot of the foundational things is going to be run by AI. Meaning that a lot of the more of the basic setups and all that kind of stuff, the infrastructure stuff will be all AI, so we'll have eff…”
Jun 16, 2026 bullish
Indries: AI will autonomously negotiate contracts and resolve lawsuits within 20 years
“You'll have, you know, AI just building the most amazing contract And the AI negotiating with other AI, you know, making compromises on each side, you know, just so that they can, you know, reach settlement or whatever. Right. When you will sue someone, 20 yea…”
Jun 16, 2026 neutral
Jun 16, 2026 bearish
Jun 16, 2026 bullish
Jun 23, 2026 positive
Mercer: AI cut pitch analysis workflow from 60 days to 60 minutes
“It used to take us 60 days to get all of the data. We record all of the pitches from our leaders, and then we would take them and our group would listen to them And pull out all the highlights and try to do some actual cross-referencing through things that are…”
Jun 23, 2026 negative
Weisbrot: Laid off designer because AI creates better thumbnails in a minute
“I had a designer and the AI is able to produce better work than the designer faster and cheaper. Like, you know, it used to cost It used to take three days to get a thumbnail back. The AI can do it in a minute, and it's better quality. And so I had to let the …”
Jun 23, 2026 bearish
Jul 21, 2026 negative
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Gurovich: Eldercare AI Must Augment, Not Replace, Human Care
“Again, we don't position the product as a substitution of the humans. It's not our way of thinking. But AI could be there in the moment when there is no human nearby. For example, we had one lady. She got up, like, four a.m. For some reason very frequently, an…”
Aug 4, 2026 bullish
Weisbrot: AI Will Soon Build Trust Better Because It Is Non-Judgmental
“Maybe today, but I think very, very soon that's not going to be true, because AI is very good at making humans feel comfortable, and humans feel like AI isn't judging it because it's not another human. So I feel like AI will be capable of doing that if it's no…”
Aug 4, 2026 neutral
Snyder: AI Cannot Yet Extract Deep Insights or Conduct Trust-Building Interviews
“Pulling the deeper insights. I think that's the nice thing is that AI is not quite there yet. That still does, you know, take some judgment and experience and expertise. But and, you know, AI also can't sit down with employees and use the techniques that we're…”
Aug 18, 2026 negative
Aug 18, 2026 bearish
Aug 25, 2026 negative
Aug 25, 2026 neutral
Aug 25, 2026 neutral
Sep 1, 2026 bullish
AI shifts the business model from SaaS to 'Service as a Software'
“If you heard the idea that people are talking about, it's not software as a service anymore. It's service as a software because of all these shifts with shifts with AI. You have to think of, okay, not how can we use AI to slightly reduce our costs or do someth…”
Sep 1, 2026 neutral
McCanulty: AI builders are one to two years ahead of average users
“A lot of like builders and probably people like listening or watching a show like this, like we're like a year or two ahead of the average user, even if they're an entrepreneur, most cases, because there there's just such a quick advancement in how these thing…”
Sep 8, 2026 positive
Sep 8, 2026 negative
Entry-level marketers must learn to manage AI instead of manual production
“If I was a Entry level marketer today. That's the worry, the job that I'd be worried about. That's where I would say you need to go and learn AI so that you can be you can be the one that's managing the AI, not learning how to do the work that AI is doing now,…”
Sep 8, 2026 negative
AI user research tools struggle to appropriately weight passionate individual feedback
“One of the things I think is difficult sometimes is it doesn't know Like, it doesn't know how to, like, balance importance of things. Sometimes, like, if you just gave it the recording of 10 customer calls, it might, if somebody says something really passionat…”