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We Called It "Artificial." We Should Have Said the Aliens Were Coming.
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- Jun 17, 2026
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Summary
AI didn't come — it arrived. And if we could rewind to the end of 2022 when ChatGPT launched, the right framing would have been: a very smart alien race lands in three or four years, prepare now. We didn't. We called it a next-word predictor and moved on. In this episode I reframe the whole thing: why "artificial" undersells an intelligence that comprehends and solves problems no human can, what a lifetime of watching technology revolutions (party lines to cell phones) taught me about this on...