This week, This Week in Cognitive Revolution examined competing visions of AI's role in the economy and physical world. Episodes explored whether automation should be slowed to protect human labor, what meaningful progress toward AI utopia actually looks like amid rising infrastructure costs, and how foundation models might enable robots to operate across different bodies—surfacing a core tension between AI's potential to replace human work and its potential to augment human capability. The week ultimately grappled with who decides what problems AI should solve, and at what cost.
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