In this episode, Matt and Yuri treat AI less as a single “thing” and more as a cultural mirror—an unsettling Rorschach test that reveals what humans and institutions fear, desire, and project. Matt argues that the current frenzy resembles a mass hallucination driven by investor fantasies of automation, while Yuri counters with a grounded case: in his daily work, AI has become an indispensable collaborator that removes bottlenecks and accelerates real output.

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