
Valerie Sizemore
Co-leader and co-founder of StopAI, a grassroots movement campaigning for a ban on frontier AI development
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Jul 30, 2026
418: AI: A New Kind of Being Bonus Episode: A Conversation with Valerie Sizemore of StopAI
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10:59Whit MisseldineHOST
Like a muscle needs to tear to grow, right? And there is a certain level of friction in our way of interacting with the world that actually helps us evolve.

Valerie SizemoreGUEST
An excellent learning technique that is supported by neurological research is to, you know, while you're studying, every, like, ten minutes or so, just, like, stare at a wall.

Valerie SizemoreGUEST
Like, literally just don't do anything for, like, a minute or two and be bored, and this will help reinforce the learning.

Valerie SizemoreGUEST
Um, this is a related one a- and also one that a lot of people have been showing up to our group concerned about, education.

Valerie SizemoreGUEST
It's being pushed into schools, and there's an incentive for students to use it.
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27:03Whit MisseldineHOST
And so what would that look like in terms of AI when you talk about, just again, for people who, who might not even know Transformer, but just at a high level, what are the mechanisms that, and regulations that would actually have to be in place that would make a meaningful difference?