Welcome to It's Gonna Be Fine, the podcast where we bring you the stories and trends you may have missed, and unpack what's really going on.

This week, Matti and David (America’s favorite brother-in-law) unpack the trade-offs of new technology, from smart glasses that can record strangers to AI agents that can manage our lives and cameras that seem to be everywhere. Technology keeps advancing, but are we always better off because of it?

From privacy concerns and the potential for AI to go too far to whether we really need every new innovation, they explore what happens when the things we build to make life easier create entirely new problems.

The conversation then turns to celebrities and whether they have the same right to privacy as everyone else. When someone chooses a life in the public eye, does that change what the rest of us are entitled to see — or is there a line we shouldn’t cross, no matter who someone is? And Matti does his best to convince David that some actors are in it for the art, and not the fame.

Along the way, they discuss the ethics of filming strangers, the internet’s appetite for public shaming, and why having the right to record someone doesn’t necessarily make it the right thing to do.

📖 Chapters

00:00 — Meta Glasses: Is the Technology Worth It?

08:38 — AI Agents and the Limits of Automation

15:19 — When Surveillance Fails: The Nancy Guthrie Case

19:17 — Viral Shaming and the Internet’s Morality Police

25:58 — Do Celebrities Deserve the Same Privacy as Everyone Else?

Referenced in this Episode

• The Daily Show - "Lewis Black on How Tech Is Obliterating Privacy, from AI Glasses to "Fambushing""

• The Journal - "How Did Nancy Guthrie Vanish Without a Trace?"

• The Free Press - "Welcome to Secular Sharia" (via Instagram)

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