I read news stories every day, several times a day. When it comes to AI I hear that the industry is booming/it's crashing/it's a miracle/it's a nightmare. Everyone has an opinion and it isn't nuanced. It is also all speculation. I wondered who could give me a balanced view of whether AI will survive or thrive in it's current form.

Then I was listening to one of my favorite podcasters, Mark Stockley, who had a guest that used AI created an AI companion to work out ideas for his own content. I thought, "Why not?"

So I fired up Claude Sonnet 2.6 and asked about the future of AI. the answers were remarkably balanced, thoughtful... and scary as hell.