The PAUSE Podcast - Sanctuary for the Wild Ones
Oct 1, 2026 · 30 min · 10 segments
What kinds of intelligence become more valuable as artificial intelligence gets faster? Technology futurist and self-described “free-range chicken” **Asher Crispe** joins Ari from Vermont for a…
You have expansive access to a lot of different perspectives, and certainly an ethical perspective.
Certainly, a lot of the listeners of the Pause have expressed a lot of con- concern about, naturally.
In fact, they may even be intensified by the fact that I have access to pre-commercial AI that I'm even finding more jaw-dropping and sometimes alarming.
And w- part of the work that I do is on guardrails, airbags, and, and breaks [laughs] for AI.
Like, how do you make a, an AI humble and hesitant and, you know, get it to, to pause and to use the name of that...
Uh, in order to, like, rethink what it does, right? Espe- and the implications of it.
Turns out just like human beings, where, you know, your, your Visa tin card with a $9 limit is frozen in a jar of ice in your freezer.
We, we're all, um, uh, too much wrapped up in the cult of efficiency and doing everything faster, faster, faster, but there is a lot to be said both for the human and for the AI in going slow occasionally.
As much as you should be into going fast, you should also figure out what's advantageous about going slow, and I think that that's really important here in the AI space.
Now, the other thing that I'm very concerned about, to your, uh, question, is the future of jobs, and I've been talking about exponential trends in technology for decades now, and I'm very concerned for college students and for the workforce.
We have so many people that I think are very capable and are actually looking for meaningful work, and yet the changes that are occurring are so drastic, and we're not really preparing people for them adequately.
We want kids to do things like improv theater, right? Learn how to deeply listen, learn how to take risks, become rejection-proof.
You have expansive access to a lot of different perspectives, and certainly an ethical perspective.
Certainly, a lot of the listeners of the Pause have expressed a lot of con- concern about, naturally.
In fact, they may even be intensified by the fact that I have access to pre-commercial AI that I'm even finding more jaw-dropping and sometimes alarming.
And w- part of the work that I do is on guardrails, airbags, and, and breaks [laughs] for AI.
Like, how do you make a, an AI humble and hesitant and, you know, get it to, to pause and to use the name of that...
Uh, in order to, like, rethink what it does, right? Espe- and the implications of it.
Turns out just like human beings, where, you know, your, your Visa tin card with a $9 limit is frozen in a jar of ice in your freezer.
We, we're all, um, uh, too much wrapped up in the cult of efficiency and doing everything faster, faster, faster, but there is a lot to be said both for the human and for the AI in going slow occasionally.
As much as you should be into going fast, you should also figure out what's advantageous about going slow, and I think that that's really important here in the AI space.
Now, the other thing that I'm very concerned about, to your, uh, question, is the future of jobs, and I've been talking about exponential trends in technology for decades now, and I'm very concerned for college students and for the workforce.
We have so many people that I think are very capable and are actually looking for meaningful work, and yet the changes that are occurring are so drastic, and we're not really preparing people for them adequately.
We want kids to do things like improv theater, right? Learn how to deeply listen, learn how to take risks, become rejection-proof.
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