Microsoft's AI CEO just put a 12–18 month expiration date on most white-collar work. But after spending weeks with enterprise executives, Paul Roetzer sees a very different reality: most companies haven't even gotten past giving their teams AI access.
In Ep. 198, Paul and Mike unpack the growing disconnect between AI capability and AI adoption, share Paul's 7-point thought experiment on the future of work, and cover a massive week of news: Dario Amodei's warning about the AI exponential, AI productivity gains finally appearing in economic data, ByteDance's SeaDance 2.0 copyright crisis, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Open Claw's creator joining OpenAI, AI hardware moves from Apple and Meta, and a provocative editorial arguing journalism schools are failing students.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Intro
00:05:38 — AI Pulse Survey Results
00:08:48 — Microsoft AI CEO Predicts White Collar Work Automated in 12-18 Months
00:20:42 — AI Productivity Evidence
00:33:23 —Dario Amodei on Dwarkesh
00:47:55 — Dor Brothers AI Movie and the Rise of Seedance
00:55:07 — Claude Sonnet 4.6
01:00:51 — OpenClaw Creator Goes to OpenAI
01:05:00 — OpenAI Devices and AI Devices
01:14:51 — AI in Journalism Controversy
01:25:05 — Meta Patents AI for the Dead
01:26:56 — AI Product and Funding Updates
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