A while back, I joined Anne Gillaspie on OnlyFounders for what was supposed to be a one-off conversation.
Apparently we had more to talk about!
That appearance turned into recurring virtual coffees, usually involving AI, technology, business, and whatever weird, weird thing had happened in the industry that week. Now those conversations are turning into a recurring OnlyFounders series called The CULTure of AI.
Anne and I share a belief that the story being told about AI does not match the technology underneath it. I’ve written about this quite a bit on my own blog, including why I think it makes more sense to view an LLM as a new kind of computer processor than as an independent intelligence. There are still humans making decisions about what these systems do, how they are built, and where they are deployed.
That gap between the technology and the story surrounding it gives us a lot to talk about.
In our first conversation, we get into the fear around AI, corporate messaging, human oversight, and why I think people should stop treating these tools like unquestionable experts (they’re not, not even close). We also talk about what actually happens when you prompt an AI system and how ordinary users can get more comfortable experimenting with it safely.
Future conversations should give us plenty of room to dig into some of the increasingly insane things happening across the industry, what they actually mean, and where the technology may be heading (or where we could send it instead if we all put in the work).
I’m so excited to see where this goes, and do I ever have some stories to tell you along the way. You can check out the full conversation here.
