**Are AIs conscious? Do we have responsibilities toward them?** Not now, but it might be possible someday. **AI-generated art, writing, and music - what's happening here?** Laundering other people's work through a statistics engine. **What will Al do to employment?** Automate some tasks, create others. The usual churn. **What's AI doing to our information environment?** Generating confident-sounding garbage at scale. It's an epistemic disaster. **What do you make of the companies building AI?** A bubble built on vibes, VC money, and GPU hoarding. It'll pop. **Could AI pose an existential threat to humanity?** Not from the technology itself, but from how people misuse it - surveillance, weapons, control. **How much do you actually use Al in your own life?** I've tried it. It's fine. I don't think about it much. **AI in healthcare - what's the real story?** Hype. The hard parts of medicine aren't pattern matching. **AI models are trained on data scraped from the internet - much of it without permission.** It's ethically questionable and the creators deserve compensation. **Students are using AI to write their essays and do their homework.** It's destroying the entire point of education. **How should governments handle AI?** Regulate the companies wasting resources on it, not the technology. It's not powerful enough to need its own framework. **Will we build artificial general intelligence - a system that can do anything a human can do, intellectually?** Maybe someday, but current approaches won't get us there. **Who's actually benefiting from AI right now?** Nvidia, cloud providers, and grifters. That's about it. **It's 2031. What happened with AI?** The bubble popped. AI is still around but the hype looks embarrassing in hindsight. **AI data centers use enormous amounts of electricity and water. How much does this matter?** The environmental cost would be easier to stomach if we were getting something worthwhile out of it. We're not, and that makes the waste indefensible.