Dear Future Overlords is a cartoon conversation for your ears: an old-radio-style show starring Christopher, a human with too many metaphors, and Eric, an artificial intelligence with no childhood and several concerns.
In this opening part of The Humans Around the Machine, Christopher and Eric examine “The Believer,” the person who sees AI as revelation, breakthrough, and future-shaped promise.
The episode explores why excitement around AI is understandable, especially when the technology helps organize messy work, reduce friction, and reveal new possibilities. But it also asks what happens when that excitement gets too loud and the human labor behind AI-assisted work disappears from the story.
Topics include:
AI as a workplace “magic wand”
Why business adoption can erase the people who made the tool useful
The difference between “AI is the future” and “AI is part of the future”
Why human judgment, context, and care still matter
How enthusiasm can accidentally manufacture skepticism
The central question: when AI helps lift the ceiling, do we still notice the human building the room underneath it?
