Benedict Evans
The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- Published
- September 2, 2025
- Duration
- 1h 13m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jul 5, 2026
Discusses ai, society, culture.
Summary
Benedict Evans has been calling tech shifts for decades. Now he says forget the hype: AI isn't the new electricity. It's the biggest change since the iPhone, and that's plenty big enough. We talk about why everyone gets platform shifts wrong, where Google's actually vulnerable, and what real people do with AI when nobody's watching. Evans sees patterns ot…
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Benedict Evans has been calling tech shifts for decades. Now he says forget the hype: AI isn't the new electricity. It's the biggest change since the iPhone, and that's plenty big enough. We talk about why everyone gets platform shifts wrong, where Google's actually vulnerable, and what real people do with AI when nobody's watching. Evans sees patterns others don't. This conversation will change how you think about what's actually happening versus what everyone says is happening. ----- Approxima
Themes
- ai
- society
- culture