118. AI Delusion with David Gerard

This time we're chatting with David Gerard about crypto bros, bubble economics and recessions, AI services pricing, who is making all the money, surveillance uses of AI, uses for empty datacenters, the RAM racket, AI as the platform for life, the cult of AI and effective altruism, AI doomers, anthropomorphising AI and more...

Published on: 20th of October 2026
Podcast authors: Ben Byford and David Gerard
Audio duration: 01:00:32
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Tags: Cult, AI Bubble, RAM, NVIDIA, Recession, Cyber security
Playlists: Delusion

David Gerard produces the news blog and YouTube channel Pivot to AI, covering the AI bubble in depth. He previously covered cryptocurrency.
He is the author of "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain" (2017) and "Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money" (2020).

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Episode host: Ben Byford

Ben Byford is a AI ethics consultant, code, design and data science teacher, games designer with years of design and coding experience building websites, apps, and games.

In 2015 he began talking on AI ethics and started the Machine Ethics podcast. Since, Ben has talked with academics, developers, doctors, novelists and designers on AI, automation and society. He is available for articles, talks and workshops.

Through Ethical by Design Ben and the team help organisations make better AI decisions leveraging their experience in design, technology, business, data, sociology and philosophy.

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