We take on AI as the newest force shaping daily life, from convenience and creativity to surveillance and fear. With journalist and author Mark Jacobson, we connect today’s AI panic to Bill Cooper’s legacy and ask who really benefits when the machines learn everything.
• our first-hand AI habits and why it feels seductive
• Bill Cooper’s cultural impact and why paranoia sells
• prison, institutions, and the mindset of constant threat
• why targeted ads make people feel watched
• saying please to ChatGPT and what that reveals
• AI in school, writing, and the problem of fake work
• automation, middle-class risk, and the data center reality
• the core question of ownership, control, and who profits
• early internet anonymity and how culture changed
• prediction markets, betting on anything, and the dark mirror
Be sure to look up the sky because you never know what you might see.

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