From The Angry Democrat: Matt Diemer <[email protected]>
Subject Affleck and Damon Push Back on the AI Fantasy
Date January 24, 2026 11:09 AM
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Something that’s been circulating lately is a conversation on Joe Rogan featuring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, where both of them push back—hard—on the idea that AI is about to replace humans at scale the way tech companies keep promising.
What struck me wasn’t just what they said, but why they said it. Their argument lines up almost perfectly with how I’ve been thinking about AI’s actual trajectory versus the story being sold to investors, lawmakers, and the public.
This isn’t an anti-AI take.
It’s an anti-hype take.
This is The 80% / 20% Problem...

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