This week, This Week in Deep Questions with Cal Newport examined two interconnected anxieties about technology's trajectory: whether AI risk is an inevitable outcome of progress or a result of deliberate choices we're making, and whether the tech industry has fundamentally lost interest in solving real problems for users. The episodes suggest a common thread—that many of technology's most troubling developments aren't accidents, but reflect specific decisions about what gets built and why.
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This Week in Deep Questions with Cal Newport (Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2026)
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1 episode · Sep 14 – Sep 20
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