Oct 1, 2026 · 59 min · 14 segments
AI can be incredibly useful—and occasionally incredibly confident while being completely wrong. In this episode, Eric and Dean join Peter and Kyle to unpack the fear, hype, and reality surrounding AI…
So I was doing a lot of reading and prep and stuff like that.
Then I was thinking back on my own experiences and I thought, what was the really the first thing that freaked me out about AI? And it was when I was chatting with Chad GPT and it was giving me like medical advice.
And That was like, oh no, this is bad.
And talking to me like, like a buddy.
And I was like, I kind of pulled into it and I was like, so we were buddies for a moment.
And I was like, this is not my buddy.
You should get that looked at Kyle.
This is an automaton whose entire existence is to, is to trick you into continuing to engage with it so they can make money.
The sycophant engine that it has running behind the scenes, I think...
What I've done is I've done a lot of instructions to kind of dehumanize it and de sycophant it and like, give me honest, objective answers.
And then at the end, I tell it to tell me all of the like verbal persuasion tricks, rhetoric stuff that it's using, like the rule of threes and the callback and things like that.
Like, tell me how you're manipulating me.
Um, that's been pretty helpful.
My, my terrifying moments were really more of the hype and the fear from the news than actual experience with AI.
You know, I mean, for me, it was all when it first came out, it was like, oh, it's gonna take people's jobs, which we all were afraid of.
So I was doing a lot of reading and prep and stuff like that.
Then I was thinking back on my own experiences and I thought, what was the really the first thing that freaked me out about AI? And it was when I was chatting with Chad GPT and it was giving me like medical advice.
And That was like, oh no, this is bad.
And talking to me like, like a buddy.
And I was like, I kind of pulled into it and I was like, so we were buddies for a moment.
And I was like, this is not my buddy.
You should get that looked at Kyle.
This is an automaton whose entire existence is to, is to trick you into continuing to engage with it so they can make money.
The sycophant engine that it has running behind the scenes, I think...
What I've done is I've done a lot of instructions to kind of dehumanize it and de sycophant it and like, give me honest, objective answers.
And then at the end, I tell it to tell me all of the like verbal persuasion tricks, rhetoric stuff that it's using, like the rule of threes and the callback and things like that.
Like, tell me how you're manipulating me.
Um, that's been pretty helpful.
My, my terrifying moments were really more of the hype and the fear from the news than actual experience with AI.
You know, I mean, for me, it was all when it first came out, it was like, oh, it's gonna take people's jobs, which we all were afraid of.
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