Punk Devs, AI Doomers & Robot Fight Clubs

Hosts of the NET Society podcast discuss public backlash against AI, with guest Seth Goldstein, in an episode titled "Punk Devs, AI Doomers & Robot Fight Clubs." Aaron says polls from YouGov and Pew indicate that roughly half of at least U.S. adults think AI will be worse for society than good, and he calls the fear largely unwarranted, saying AI is mainly changing software development. Derek says tech companies such as Coinbase are moving much development to agents, with Brian Armstrong citing 40% of Coinbase code, while Seth argues that falling cost per unit of intelligence could eventually erode salaried work.