Biking across America to interview regular people about AI futures
A writer spent a month biking from Chicago to Berkeley, street-interviewing strangers and streaming conversations about AI and philosophy.
Key finding: almost no one outside tech circles knows about recent model breakthroughs, code agents, eval metrics, or how cheap software engineering has become. Most lack the coding background to even parse what's happening.
Plans to reflect on persuasion, social media gaps, and what “Normal America“ actually thinks versus what the tech bubble assumes.