Hot takes - Sergey Brin on All In

Oliver and Victoria dissect Sergey Brin's appearance on All In (5/20/2025), unpacking the Google co-founder's casual approach to building AGI and his surprising vulnerability in the face of his own creation.🔥 Topics we cover:• Sergey's bizarre admission about threatening AI models with "kidnapping" for better performance• The OpenAI party encounter that FOMO'd him out of retirement back into Google• How he's secretly using AI to manage teams and identify promotion candidates through Slack• The billionaire founder too awkward to use voice mode in his own open office• His existential paralysis watching AI surpass his high school son at calculus• The bureaucratic absurdity of Google banning its own founder from using Gemini to code• Why he sold Boston Dynamics and doesn't believe in humanoid robots• His casual pricing of civilization-altering intelligence at "twenty bucks a month"• Larry Page's "humans as stepping stones" philosophy and Sergey's wine deflection• The cosmic joke of the man who organized world's information unable to navigate his own company• Whether Sergey's casual demeanor is visionary confidence or existential cope• Deep Research as a preview of human intellectual obsolescence• The most powerful man in tech reduced to sneaking AI instructions into Slack