Smart Girl Dumb Questions

Reid Hoffman is a Silicon Valley billionaire who co-founded LinkedIn, wrote the book on “Superagency” and was part of the original PayPal Mafia (alongside Musk & Thiel, though he donates on the opposite side of the political aisle). Today Reid offers Nayeema perspective on the future, and what the age of robots means for YOUR career or enterprise.

Nayeema asks him: will AI make us ageless? Help us retire early or make us work forever? And what advice would he give the varying generations, from Gen Alpha to Boomers, to stay relevant and irreplaceable in a post-AI world? Also on the agenda: what’s your AI archetype: doomer, gloomer, bloomer, or zoomer? And what would it take to give every American access to a doctor, lawyer, and personal tutor?

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Jon Stewart called Gen Z economic analyst Kyla Scanlon’s book “essential reading.” Now Kyla’s on Smart Girl Dumb Questions to break down the data and move beyond memes and myths. We asked her… does Gen-Z actually hate to work or do they just have a rational economic point? Why do young people feel broke? Will robots take our jobs, or help us make our side hustles a lucrative business? And will AI actually unleash new wealth?

Also on the agenda; can Gen Z (or Millennials) afford to disavow AI? And what’s Kyla’s advice for young job-seekers in this market?

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Get Kyla’s book that Jon Stewart called “essential reading” and listen to her new career advice podcast: Best of Luck!

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We’re playing you one of our favourite episodes: a conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin from January 2026. Nayeema asks: When did money become God? Are we due another market crash? What did we learn (or fail to learn) from the 1929, 2008 and other economic crises? And would they bail out OpenAI and Anthropic now — is AI the new “too big to fail?”

Make sure to get Andrew’s book (which Nayeema thinks is “actually great.”

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Seth Meyers joined Nayeema live at the Comedy Cellar, where she asked him about his greatest failures (very few), whether he has a nemesis, and what’s actually funny in a world where the news is a meme and the meme is now news.

Also: is Seth Meyers a “Wife Guy” … and is Donald Trump one too? And how does Nayeema get his job (Seth’s, not Trump’s).

You should def get Seth’s (not a real book) and listen to his pods: The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast and Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers

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We asked Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning Godfather of AI: what happens when AI gets smarter than us? Can it unlearn bad behaviours? Break out and release a model that even Sam Altman acknowledges is dangerous? Under what circumstances can we trust Sam, Demis or Dario? And is the Trump administration and US government at all equipped to handle this moment?

Also: what does AI have to do with The Beatles … or beetles, rather. This is Part 3 of our Godfather of AI series you can find

Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/Px3HfB2UkyU?si=W5A6S0X7FBgGTA8p

Part 2 here: https://youtu.be/oMpNIz9AIu0?si=KYZHdN2U-tDNejnZ

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