Society & Culture
Jonathan Pageau's 18-minute speech on AI, Moloch, and the Holy Grail has been rattling around my head for two weeks. So this weeks episode is dedicated to breaking it down. We trace Pageau's use of Arthurian legend (the Grail, the Lance, the wounded Fisher King) as a lens on modern technology, unpack the "Moloch trap" and what it means to sacrifice our children to it, and land on his answer to it all: ask whom the technology serves? More importantly, whom do you serve?