AI Might Kill Us. Here’s Why It Matters: w/ Jim VandeHei (#575)

-Simplify, simplify, simplify…

-Do people like Jim as a boss?

-The two things to screen for in prospective employees

-The humility of Mike Allen

-AI and the newsroom

-The way you consume news is about to completely change

-Are we at the Napster stage of AI?

-The demand for local news didn’t die

-DEI without the corporate activism

-Axios refuses to take a stand

-Moynihan’s Vice postmortem

-Jim used to be a hothead. Mostly.

-AI might kill us. Why it matters

-Kmele vs. the AI doomers

-Hugging Face and the runaway AI problem

-Stuxnet was the dumb version

-Midterm Madness goes off-script

-Who should actually be Person of the Year?

-Too much Trump porn at the New York Times?

-Jim simplifies Trump’s three biggest precedent breaks

-Why Trump does it anyway

Read Simplify: Do 50 Percent More with 50 Percent Less by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz

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