Who's Driving This Thing?

The person who built the foundation of modern AI is worried. 81,000 regular people are mostly grateful. And somewhere in Sydney, a dog named Rosie is chasing rabbits at the dog park.This week on AI, Honestly:• Geoffrey Hinton — Nobel Prize winner, godfather of AI — says he's more worried now than when he left Google. Three specific claims: jobs, incentives, and a 10–20% extinction estimate he calls "a wild guess."• Anthropic's 81,000-person study across 159 countries: 81% say AI is delivering. 67% net positive. And teachers are observing cognitive atrophy in students — not predicting it, seeing it.• Paul Conyngham used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to help design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his dying dog Rosie. Twelve weeks later, she was chasing rabbits.None of those things cancel each other out. That's the actual state of AI right now.Sources and transcript: kipdavis.com/ep003