What We Get Wrong About AI (feat. former Google CEO)

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Cleo Abram. Cleo Abram walks through both the "it will kill us all" and "more profound than fire" extremes, asks Eric Schmidt the awkward questions, and lands on a sober middle. The framing — "we're living inside a trolley problem" — is exactly the spirit of the article: neither dismiss the technology nor catastrophise it, just understand what it actually is.

AI Expert note

We picked it for the framing rather than the interview — the 'neither dismiss nor catastrophise' posture is exactly the article's, and it gives you language for pushing back on both extremes.

What you should get from this

You can argue a sober middle position between the doom and utopia extremes of the AI debate, and know which questions actually matter.

Watch or know first

None — watchable cold.

Last reviewed: May 18, 2026

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