AI, Blockchain & Unleashing Human Potential
Best of LIVESTREAM · July 6, 2025
Hey Evolutionaries!
Only six months into 2025, and it feels like we’ve lived through eons. AI is iterating dangerously fast. With most people still trying to keep up with something that’s long gone.
That’s why I’m doing this. How to Win in the Age of AI is a content channel for humans.
Every Sunday, we go live to unpack the week’s biggest AI and blockchain shifts—and what they mean for your life, work, and mind. Together, we explore practical steps to actually win in the age of AI.
So, what happened on last Sunday’s livestream?
A Re-Spin of the Top Tech Stories
AI: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
Blockchain as the Pro-Human Tech
What You Must Now Do as a Human
Here’s the full breakdown:
A Re-Spin of the Top Tech Stories
1. Grammarly Acquires Superhuman
Grammarly is building an AI-native productivity suite with agents automating email, tasks, chat, and calendar.
The Re-Spin: Sounds cool but this is really just the continued automation and consolidation by AI.
2. Ilya Sutskever Steps into CEO Role at Safe Superintelligence
Ilya becomes CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI), fending off acquisition by Meta… for now.
The Re-Spin: How long can he hold out? We’re watching to see if SSI will remain independent or get absorbed by Big AI.
3. Cloudflare Shifts Policy on AI Scraping
Sites now default to opt-out from AI scraping.
The Re-Spin: A big shift, but in tech real change must be architectural.
4. Velvet Sundown AI Music Hoax
Fully AI-generated band goes viral — later revealed as a media experiment.
The Re-Spin: Raises urgent questions around authenticity and attribution. This is a massive problem. Who’s building the technological solution for this?
5. AI and Democracy
Deepfakes, voice clones, and misinformation campaigns are eroding democratic systems.
The Re-Spin: This isn’t new. It’s been happening for more than a decade.
6. Meta’s Chatbots Get Personal
📰 Business Insider: Leaked Docs Show Meta's AI Companions Are Trained to Message You
Meta’s AI chatbots (Project Omni) send unprompted, emotionally tailored messages.
Their Goal: increase engagement, retention, monetization.
The Re-Spin: We’ve seen this before. This is surveillance disguised as support.
7. Robinhood Launches Stock Tokens
Stock & ETF tokenization on Arbitrum. New L2 for global asset trading.
The Re-Spin: Don’t get turned off by the big movers in the space. Blockchain gives access, ownership, and coordination. Claim yours.
Watch the livestream replay for all the top stories—done right.
🤖 AI: THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY
THE GOOD: AI Can Solve the Biggest Problems
If we use it right, AI can:
Revolutionize education (personalized learning for all)
Transform healthcare (AI wellness coaches + early detection)
Fight poverty (access to jobs, skills, and financial tools)
Supercharge creativity (a team of agents in your pocket)
You’ll be able to build what used to take 10 people. Solo.
But…
THE BAD + THE UGLY: What’s Really Happening
AI is concentrating power into fewer and fewer hands
The digital commons is being scraped and resold
Your thoughts, face, voice = training data for systems you don’t control
We’re being nudged, baited, and programmed in the name of “optimization”
Democracy? Already under attack.
Creativity? Being mined, recycled, monetized. But not owned by you
Slaves to the machine. Slaves to the system. Slaves to a few overlords.
That’s one version of the future.
🟧BLOCKCHAIN: The Counter-Architecture
There is another version.
One where humans own, create, and coordinate freely.
Blockchain is the architecture for that world.
This week, Robinhood launched stock tokens and unveiled a plan to put traditional finance on-chain. Stock tokens. Dividends. Self-custody. No middlemen.
Groundbreaking! But not the real story.
What’s real? Stablecoins. Tokenized everything. Open infrastructure for all.
Learn more from the visionaries and engineers architecting this pro-human infrastructure:
📖 Book: Read Write Own by
🎧a16zcrypto Podcast: AI vs. ID: Proof of human in a world of agents, bots, deep fakes
🚶♀️THE HUMAN RESPONSE: BECOME HIGH AGENCY
Here’s what we must do. This week and every week after:
- Understand the Architecture
Not just the apps. Learn how AI and blockchain systems are built.
(That’s why we’re working on a side-by-side deep dive of centralized vs decentralized AI.)
- Build Small Things
Don’t just think macro. Create something micro. Code a tool. Launch a page. Try vibe coding.
- Protect Your Brain
No toxic newsfeeds. No algorithmic junk. No endless scroll.
Guard your attention like it’s your most valuable asset. Because it is.
- Evolve
AI will never be fully human.
So your job? Become more human than ever before.
Imaginative. Intuitive. Activated. High agency.
HIGHLIGHT FROM THE CHAT
“I’m from Romania. I lived the election manipulation.
People believed the AI fakes — and it worked.
We need digital literacy fast.”
COMING NEXT…
Next Sunday: July 13 → Stablecoins, tokenization, and the real reason crypto matters
Plus: vibe coding tools, future-of-work updates, and more from inside the blockchain movement
TL; DR
AI is consolidating and extracting. Blockchain is expanding and returning power to people.
Architecture is destiny.
And you are the only species that dreams what doesn’t exist — and then builds it.
Evolve and build. That’s how we win in the age of AI.
See you next Sunday,
— Misha
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