Episode #2
Should We Slow the Roll on AI?
In this episode of What Do You Wanna Talk About? we welcome our first-ever guest, Ernest (our Science and Technology Correspondent!), for a conversation about technology that seems to be changing everything: AI . We talk about what AI means for our jobs, the economy, healthcare, and education—and, naturally, spiral into some bigger questions: Can we actually control these systems? What happens when they get really good at breaking the rules? Are we anywhere close to AGI? We also get into the less sci-fi side of AI: data centers, privacy, and the uncomfortable reality that our data is part of the product. And we talk about what worries us most about the workforce—especially the possibility of eliminating entry-level jobs and, in the process, eliminating the very training ground people need to become experts. Finally, we wonder whether the AI revolution might eventually send us all running in the opposite direction, toward more analog schools, handwritten notes, and decidedly human ways of learning. References from our episode: Dead Reckoning Stunt (Behind the Scenes): https://youtu.be/-lsFs2615gw?si=424xNI14Qfjmtvzl Google Buys Spirit Airlines Chats: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/business/google-spirit-airlines-data Follow us on social media! Instagram @sisterchat.podcast ( https://www.instagram.com/sisterchat.podcast ) YouTube @WhatDoYouWannaTalkAboutPodcast ( https://youtube.com/@whatdoyouwannatalkaboutpodcast ) TikTok @Sisterchatpodcast ( https://www.tiktok.com/@sisterchatpodcast ) Time Stamps: 00:00 Titanic AI Cold Open 01:46 Meet Our Science and Technology Correspondent! 06:07 AI Vocabulary Explained 13:26 Alignment And Guardrails 16:15 AGI Timelines Hype 19:40 AI Bubble And Economy 23:02 Privacy Data Scraping 26:06 Data Is The Product 28:29 Workplace AI Reality 32:31 Distrust and Hallucinations 34:24 Backlash in Education 39:13 Two Futures for AI 41:08 Healthcare and Privacy Fears 42:55 On Device AI Privacy 51:41 Beautiful Things
