We Want Everyone Using AI. Then We Judge Them for It

Front porches became phone lines, phone lines became chat rooms, and now the whole conversation is a thumbs up emoji. That is the thread Prasanth Chilukuri, Founder and Managing Partner of Soul Street Ventures, pulls on here, from running the same health question through four different AI models to treating one as his chief strategist to the thing that actually keeps him up at night, which is what happens to his kids when the center keeps moving and nobody can say where it should land.

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0:00:00 London, kids, and escaping the Houston summer
0:01:50 Building an AI tutor for a third grader
0:03:15 Why AI projects never actually get finished
0:07:00 Soul Street Ventures and portfolio companies figuring out AI
0:08:15 Taking health into his own hands
0:14:20 Trust but verify across four models
0:15:45 AI as chief strategist
0:18:00 Everybody's board deck is AI generated now
0:20:45 Starlink on planes and not reading anymore
0:24:35 Turning 41 and thinking is working
0:27:15 Front porches to phone lines to emojis
0:29:35 Brown water and the AI filter
0:33:00 What happens to human connection
0:36:15 Singularity, Elon, and the abundance case
0:43:25 Travel when everywhere has evolved with you
0:48:30 Vibe coding and building from nothing
0:50:10 Your AI will never disappoint you
0:53:57 The salt shaker and moving the center
0:59:07 School has not changed and neither has the path
1:04:55 The greatest sci fi story is the one we are in 

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We Want Everyone Using AI. Then We Judge Them for It
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