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Season 1 · Episode 01The Question
the question every thinking adult is avoiding…

Are we cooked?

May 12, 2026| ~17 min listen|Solo investigation
300MJobs globally
exposed to AI
192,000US jobs erased
in 12 months
50/50Saviors vs doom.
Both can’t be right
1Question every adult
is avoiding
The numbers in this episode · Goldman Sachs, April 2026
the setup

About this episode.

→ The hook

300 million jobs globally exposed to AI. 192,000 American jobs already erased in 12 months (Goldman, April 2026). And nobody is being honest about what it actually means.

Episode 1 of Are We Cooked? sits with the question that named the show. Not as a verdict. As an investigation. Half the world says AI will save us. The other half says we are cooked. Both cannot be right.

inside the investigation

What this episode covers.

  • The hook stat that started this podcast, and the April 2026 Goldman update that made it real
  • The optimist case (Andreessen, Hoffman, Altman, Autor) backed by Stanford AI Index 2026 productivity data
  • The pessimist case (Harari, Acemoglu, Marcus, Turkle) plus Stanford’s finding: entry-level dev jobs down 20% since 2024
  • What both sides are missing, including the conversation nobody is having
  • The pattern Anurag is watching on his own 30-person marketing team
  • Three sharper questions to take into your week
skip around

Chapters.

louder proof

Sources cited.

Goldman Sachs, ‘AI Labor Market Update’ (April 2026): 16,000 US jobs erased per month, 192,000 in 12 months
Stanford AI Index 2026 (HAI, April 2026): marketing productivity +72%; entry-level software dev jobs (22-25) down 20% since 2024
World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025: 22% of jobs disrupted by 2030, 92M displaced, 170M created
McKinsey, ‘The State of Organizations 2026‘: $2.9 trillion annual US economic value from AI agents by 2030
Autor (MIT), ‘New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 19402018
Acemoglu & Johnson, ‘Power and Progress’ (2023); Reid Hoffman, ‘Superagency’ (2024); Yuval Harari, ‘Homo Deus’ and ‘Nexus’
not a hype show. not a doom show…

Don’t miss the next investigation.

Are We Cooked? is a thinking show about what AI is really doing to humans: work, parenting, creativity, relationships. New episodes weekly.