This episode is coming out in the week that we commemorate 9-11.

Today, 25 years ago I was in Manhattan. A day I will remember forever. Please remember those people that lost their lives today. Today I dedicated this post to all those friends that we lost that day. The only silver lining from that moment was the beautiful union between Americans, facing the tragedy and sadly, that union is nowhere to be found today.

Right now, while you are pretending to work at your desk or sitting in traffic on the 405 questioning your life choices, an artificial intelligence has already figured out the shape of two hundred million proteins. All of them. Every protein known to science. A job that used to take a PhD student their entire career, done in an afternoon of computing.

And do not think this is some faraway lab experiment that has nothing to do with your morning commute. This exact same protein technology is already being used to design new medications faster, to understand rare diseases, and even to dream up new batteries for the electric car you might actually be able to afford someday. So I am not here tonight to tell you this is pure apocalypse. I am here to tell you it is both things at once, the cure and the problem, sitting in the same box, with no instruction manual included.

Here is the part that is going to sting a little. That exact same technology, the one that just handed medical research fifty free years, is a close cousin of the algorithm deciding whether your credit card interest rate goes up, whether the bank trusts you, and whether your next job application gets read by an actual human or gets tossed by a keyword filter that never even opens the PDF.

Can you believe this? The same technology that might cure your uncle's cancer is the one deciding if you are "approved" to rent an apartment in NYC. And nobody, and I mean nobody, sent you a survey asking if that was okay with you.