Are We Cooked? - The Question Every Adult Is Avoiding

300 million jobs globally exposed to AI. 192,000 American jobs already erased in 12 months (Goldman April 2026). And nobody is being honest about what it actually means.Episode 1 of Are We Cooked? sits with the question that named the show. Not as a verdict. As an investigation.Half the world says AI will save us. Productivity, abundance, freedom from the boring grind. The other half says we're cooked. Jobs gone, meaning gone, identity gone.Both can't be right.In 17 minutes, Anurag Sharma walks through:- The hook stat that started this podcast, and the April 2026 Goldman update that made it real- The optimist case (Andreessen, Hoffman, Altman, Autor) backed by Stanford AI Index 2026 productivity data- The pessimist case (Harari, Acemoglu, Marcus, Turkle) plus Stanford's finding: entry-level dev jobs down 20% since 2024- What both sides are missing, including the conversation nobody is having- The pattern Anurag is watching on his own 30-person marketing team- Three sharper questions to take into your weekNot a hype show. Not a doom show. A thinking show. We don't hand you the answer. We hand you a sharper version of the question.Then we let you decide. Are we?CHAPTERS:[00:00] The Question Every Thinking Adult Is Avoiding[00:42] Meet Your Host[02:00] Why This Question, Right Now[03:23] The Optimist Case[07:00] The Pessimist Case[09:09] What Both Sides Miss[11:51] Are We? You Decide.