Why current AI technology can’t get us what its proponents are promising. Why the media keeps getting the AI story wrong. Why AI layoffs are just an excuse to re-hire workers for cheaper.Punching Upwards, Episode 27 for 15 March 2026Topic: Technology / Artificial Intelligence🦉 No AI ContentCreditsThanks to Michael Mullan-Jensen, Fadi Mansour, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vlad A Gouf, Bennet Piater, Sir Galteran and John C. for supporting this podcast financially and therefore making it possible for me to produce it!See Also* Punching Upwards 22: Moltbook MadnessSources* Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end, Dwarkesh Patel, 26 September 2025* The Bitter Lesson, Richard Sutton, 13 March 2019* DHUnplugged #793: Mission Accomplished?, Dvorak / Horowitz Unplugged, 11 March 2026* Meta just bought Moltbook, the viral social network for AI agents, Business Insider, 10 March 2026* The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication, Simon Willison, 16 June 2025* Jürgen “tante” Geuter* Wading Through AI by Casey Muratori, Molly RocketThe theme music for the podcast is a track called Fight or Fall by Def Lev. Find out more about the show at fab.industries/podcast — new media, new rules! Get full access to Punching Upwards at punchingupwards.substack.com/subscribe