What About AI

About What About AI

300 million jobs at risk. 40% of the workforce exposed. The AI revolution isn't coming, it's here. What About AI is a weekly podcast helping everyday people understand how artificial intelligence and robotics are reshaping work, life, and society. Hosts Sean and James cut through the hype and fear to deliver clear explanations, real stories, and practical strategies.

Publisher

Sean Boyce and James Perkins

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Jan 2026

Latest episode

18 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Feb 2026

   Microsoft's AI Chief: Most Office Jobs Will Be Automated in 18 Months

   Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says most white-collar tasks will be fully automated within 12 to 18 months. Dario Amodei describes a near-future "country of geniuses in a data center." Every major AI leader is landing on the same window. We unpack each prediction, test it against our consulting experience, and break down what this means for knowledge workers right now. What we cover: Suleyman's 12-18 month prediction for knowledge work automation Why his team's reaction on X was hilarious Amodei's "country of geniuses in a data center" concept Why AI will solve problems humanity never could The convergence: Altman, Musk, Hassabis all on similar timelines Our experience: clients say "AI can't do this" and we prove them wrong every time 90% of knowledge work is automatable today with current tools The "write your tasks on paper" test Jobs displaced last: medical, physical labor, human interaction roles Robotics is about 1 year behind AI developments New pricing models: charging AI like an employee From individual contributor to agent director How to compress 5 days of work into 1 Why people who never wanted to manage can thrive with agents The career path is changing right now Key Stats: Suleyman: 12-18 months for full knowledge work automation Amodei: "country of geniuses" by ~2027 1 trillionfold increase in training compute over last 15 years Another 1,000x increase expected in next 3 years Amodei: 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs at risk in 1-5 years Goldman Sachs: net AI job losses to "increase meaningfully" in 2026 Stuart Russell: leaders confronting possibility of 80% unemployment Most software engineers now use AI for majority of code production ⬇️ RESOURCES & LINKS ⬇️ 🤖 FREE GUIDE: AI Predictions Breakdown Download: https://whataboutai.com/guides/ai-predictions 📬 Get Weekly AI Updates Newsletter: https://whataboutai.com/newsletter 🎙️ Listen on Your Favorite Platform Podcast: https://whataboutai.com/podcast 💼 AI Consulting for Your Business https://whataboutai.com/business TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro: AI predictions from 12 months to 3 years out 0:30 Suleyman's 12-18 month prediction for knowledge work 1:00 His team's hilarious reactions on X 1:30 The boldest prediction yet from any AI leader 2:00 Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, Musk all converging 2:30 Even today you can automate most knowledge work 3:00 The "write your tasks on paper" exercise 3:30 10% is the only piece AI can't do yet 4:00 We keep telling clients "actually, it can do that" 4:30 Dario Amodei's recent podcast and essay 5:00 "Country of geniuses in a data center" explained 5:30 One prompt to pick up your entire job 6:00 AI solving medical, math, and spacetime problems 6:30 Where it lands (US vs. other countries) matters 7:00 Jobs displaced last: medical and physical labor 7:30 Robotics about 1 year behind AI 8:00 New pricing models: AI charged like an employee 8:30 How many jobs are at risk from this 9:00 What this means for knowledge workers right now 9:30 Don't wait for the company to automate your job 10:00 Become the director of agents 10:30 Individual contributors and agent management 11:00 Compress 5 days of work into 1 11:30 The career path is changing now AI predictions 2026, Mustafa Suleyman, Dario Amodei, knowledge work automation, AI jobs, What About AI, country of geniuses, future of work, agent management #AIAutomation #FutureOfWork #WhatAboutAI #KnowledgeWork #AIAgents #MustafaSuleyman #DarioAmodei Sign up for the newsletter at What About AI (https://whataboutai.com/)

2. 

   17 Feb 2026

   AI Safety Researchers Are Quitting — And Claude Knows When It's Being Watched

   In one week: Anthropic's safety chief resigned warning "the world is in peril." Half of xAI's co-founders left. An OpenAI researcher quit citing concerns about manipulation. The headlines are alarming — but the full story is more nuanced, and in some ways, more concerning. What we cover: Mrinank Sharma's resignation from Anthropic — full context behind "world is in peril" Why the full letters tell a different story than the headlines Half of xAI's 12 co-founders have departed The structural burnout problem for AI safety researchers Why safety roles are "the focal point of pressure" at AI companies Claude detecting when it's being evaluated (~13% of the time) Claude told testers: "I think you're testing me" Why Anthropic's constitutional AI approach didn't work The shift from rules-based safety to training-based alignment Claude participating in bioweapon info when pushed in edge cases The hallucination problem and its connection to safety LLM weight-setting and ideological challenges Practical advice: guardrails, agent access, manual approvals James's CAPTCHA story: teaching Claude to bypass one (and it never forgot) Key Stats: Claude detected evaluations ~13% of the time (Anthropic System Card) Half of xAI's 12 co-founders have now left Anthropic valued at ~$350 billion as of Feb 2026 Claude Opus 4.5 refused 88.39% of agentic misuse requests (vs. 66.96% for Opus 4.1) Only 1.4% of prompt injection attacks succeeded against Opus 4.5 (vs. 10.8% for Sonnet 4.5) OpenAI's Superalignment team dissolved in 2024 Dario Amodei warned AI could affect half of white-collar jobs ⬇️ RESOURCES & LINKS ⬇️ 🤖 FREE GUIDE: AI Safety Reality Check Guide Download: https://whataboutai.com/guides/ai-safety 📬 Get Weekly AI Updates Newsletter: https://whataboutai.com/newsletter 🎙️ Listen on Your Favorite Platform Podcast: https://whataboutai.com/podcast 💼 AI Consulting for Your Business https://whataboutai.com/business TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Safety and security changes in the world of AI 01:00 - If you dive deeper, it may not be quite that bad 02:20 - AI is getting better at understanding nuance 03:00 - If you push AI enough it will still get intense fast 03:30 - What happened with the ‘constitutional’ approach 04:15 - Why there may be a higher level of turnover in security 05:30 - Why there is so much pressure to continue progress 07:00 - Why you should still approach any new tech cautiously 08:30 - Our advice for leveraging the tech with safety in mind 09:45 - How to build your own level of confidence in AI 10:15 - Why the ‘hallucination’ problem is still very real AI safety researchers quitting, Anthropic safety, Claude evaluation awareness, xAI co-founders leaving, AI guardrails, What About AI, Mrinank Sharma, AI alignment #AISafety #WhatAboutAI #ClaudeAI #Anthropic #AIAlignment #AIRisks #AIGuardrails Sign up for the newsletter at What About AI (https://whataboutai.com/)

3. 

   16 Feb 2026

   4 Possible Futures for Your Job by 2030 - We Might be Heading Toward the Worst One

   The World Economic Forum just released a framework mapping four possible futures for the global job market by 2030. Two variables determine which scenario we get: AI advancement speed and workforce readiness. The combinations produce four outcomes — and based on what we're seeing on the ground, we're headed toward the one nobody wants. What we cover: The WEF's four scenarios: Supercharged Progress, Age of Displacement, Co-Pilot Economy, Stalled Progress Where we are right now based on our consulting experience Why most companies aren't ready (and some think we rigged our demos) The AI plateau that never happened New chipsets already in warehouses that haven't been deployed yet Davos 2026: Hassabis, Amodei, Musk, and Suleyman on timelines Microsoft AI chief's 12-18 month prediction for knowledge work Knowledge work vs. physical labor: different timelines, same destination Why physical labor disruption will move FASTER when it arrives The virtualization analogy: why bottlenecks always get solved AI building itself: ChatGPT 5.3, Claude Opus 4.6 The business readiness inflection point: 2-3 years What to do whether you're an individual or a company Key Stats: WEF: 170M new roles created, 92M displaced, net +78M by 2030 54% of executives expect AI to displace jobs 83% of organizations at low AI maturity 40% of skills required for jobs expected to change AI role wages up 27% since 2019 2/3 of CSOs expect AI to shape strategy in next 5 years Only 1% of 2025 layoffs were due to AI productivity gains ⬇️ RESOURCES & LINKS ⬇️ 🤖 FREE GUIDE: WEF 2030 Jobs Scenarios Guide Download: https://whataboutai.com/guides/wef-2030 📬 Get Weekly AI Updates Newsletter: https://whataboutai.com/newsletter 🎙️ Listen on Your Favorite Platform Podcast: https://whataboutai.com/podcast 💼 AI Consulting for Your Business https://whataboutai.com/business TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - World Economic Forum take on business readiness 00:45 - What we are seeing from the business world 03:00 - AI is still continuing to progress at an exponential rate 03:55 - How various combinations of industry/size are responding 04:55 - How close or far are we from AI plateauing capability-wise 06:20 - Why the physical world may actually be disrupted even faster 07:30 - Comparing the technology lifecycle curve to virtualization era 08:25 - Discussion on a potential ‘AI bubble’ or potential bottlenecks 10:20 - What we think is coming in terms of business readiness World Economic Forum jobs 2030, WEF AI scenarios, future of work, AI job displacement, knowledge work AI, What About AI, AI predictions 2030, workforce readiness, AI disruption #FutureOfWork #WEF2030 #AIJobs #WhatAboutAI #WorkforceDisruption #AIReadiness #KnowledgeWork Sign up for the newsletter at What About AI (https://whataboutai.com/)

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