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And he's obsessed with the tiny decisions that will shape AI's next 30 years: - Whether AI keeps memory centrally or user-controlled? - Is AI free/ad-supported or user-paid? - Should AI be engagement-maximizing or intention-aligned? - How should we handle prompt injection in MCP and agentic systems? - Should AI be built with AOL-style aggregation or web-style openness? - This is a much-watch if you care about the future of AI and humanity. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Sponsor: Gemini: Experience high quality AI video generation with Google's most capable video model: Veo 3. 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Timestamps for YouTube: 00:00:00 - Episode start 00:01:45 – Introduction 00:04:25 – Why chatbots are a feature not a paradigm 00:06:50 – Toward AI that’s aligned with our intentions 00:11:54 – The four pillars of “intentional technology” 00:14:16 – The type of structures in which intentional technology can thrive 00:18:26 – Why ChatGPT is the AOL of the AI era 00:25:55 – Why AI needs to break out of the silos of the early internet 00:41:53 – Alex’s personal journey into systems-thinking 00:48:15 – How LLMs can encode what we know but can’t explain 00:54:35 – Can LLMs solve the coordination problem inside organizations 01:01:39 – The under-discussed risk of prompt injection Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Alex Komoroske: @komorama Common Tools: https://common.tools/ The public Google document with Alex’s raw ideas and thoughts: Bits and Bobs - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GrEFrdF_IzRVXbGH1lG0aQMlvsB71XihPPqQN-ONTuo/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.zdl09a1rdbp4 A couple of Alex’s favorite books: Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo and The Origin of Wealth by Eric Beinhocker canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/video/intentional-tech-designing-ai-for-human-flourishing-da19fc7506b2 markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/video/intentional-tech-designing-ai-for-human-flourishing-da19fc7506b2.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md' channel: everyinc updated: '2026-10-24T01:07:59.001Z' language: null children: [] videoId: AgCIbh0uixs durationSeconds: 4293 publishedAt: '2025-07-09T14:47:38.000Z' searchChunks: - 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It locks your data in silos—and you stayed where your stuff already is. This dynamic created aggregators. Alex Komoroske—who led Chrome's web platform team at Google and ran corporate strategy at Stripe—saw this pattern play out firsthand. And he's obsessed with the tiny decisions that will shape AI's next 30 years: - Whether AI keeps memory centrally or user-controlled? - Is AI free/ad-supported or user-paid? - Should AI be engagement-maximizing or intention-aligned? - How should we handle prompt injection in MCP and agentic systems? - Should AI be built with AOL-style aggregation or web-style openness? - This is a much-watch if you care about the future of AI and humanity. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Sponsor: Gemini: Experience high quality AI video generation with Google's most capable video model: Veo 3. Try it in the Gemini app at gemini.google with a Google AI Pro plan or get the highest access with the Ultra plan. Attio: Go to⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://attio.com/every⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and get 15% off your first year on your AI-powered CRM. Timestamps for YouTube: 00:00:00 - Episode start 00:01:45 – Introduction 00:04:25 – Why chatbots are a feature not a paradigm 00:06:50 – Toward AI that’s aligned with our intentions 00:11:54 – The four pillars of “intentional technology” 00:14:16 – The type of structures in which intentional technology can thrive 00:18:26 – Why ChatGPT is the AOL of the AI era 00:25:55 – Why AI needs to break out of the silos of the early internet 00:41:53 – Alex’s personal journey into systems-thinking 00:48:15 – How LLMs can encode what we know but can’t explain 00:54:35 – Can LLMs solve the coordination problem inside organizations 01:01:39 – The under-discussed risk of prompt injection Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Alex Komoroske: @komorama Common Tools: https://common.tools/ The public Google document with Alex’s raw ideas and thoughts: Bits and Bobs - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GrEFrdF_IzRVXbGH1lG0aQMlvsB71XihPPqQN-ONTuo/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.zdl09a1rdbp4 A couple of Alex’s favorite books: Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo and The Origin of Wealth by Eric Beinhocker Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/video/intentional-tech-designing-ai-for-human-flourishing-da19fc7506b2 · Channel: [Every](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.