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Who Gets to Tell the AI Story?
Saturday, 4 April, 2026
Three narrative engines are competing to define what AI means: the doom industry (selling fear), the corporate machine (selling story), and the financial machine (selling access). All three assume ordinary people need mediators to understand AI. All are driven by financial or political incentives. But the actual evidence from this week — chatbots that moderate rather than radicalize, a smartphone panic that collapses on cross-cultural data, real security risks that are concrete and addressable — suggests humans are more capable than any of these narratives give them credit for. The question isn't whether AI needs to be explained to people. It's whether anyone will let them think and act for themselves. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe
