I listen to AI podcasts all the time. I listen to several tech bro podcasts because it's important to listen to alternative perspectives. The absolutely shameless plugging of the current political regime in the US is curiously countered by comments which are clearly acknowledging the bat shit crazy acts of the current administration. These people are 100% skating on the thin ice of ignorance - understanding how to ingratiate themselves far enough that they can continue to do whatever they like in order to get the tech to do the best it can do.

This is technological determinism. It's not great politics. It's not really liberalism either. It's just a worshipping of what might be possible. I get that. It's creating the best conditions for progress at the expense of everything, understanding that there could be bad shit down the line, but still believing that progress should win over everything.

I'm a techno pessimist. I would love for tech to win. But I'm convinced that tech will inevitably fail. To be fair, I believe that humans will always fail, too. But listening to these guys openly manipulating markets, politics and ignorance to forward their agenda is kind of both my pessimistic views converging. It's... weirdly self-affirming.