The AI layoffs are already here — and Mallory McMorrow has thoughts. The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate sits down with Heather Gardner to break down the “all gas, no brakes” race to replace workers with AI, the tech billionaires who push addictive products but won’t let their own kids touch them, and why she thinks AI should be regulated like any other product on the shelf — tested, verified, and recalled when it goes wrong.
Plus: who gets promoted when AI takes every entry-level job, why your phone’s pull-to-refresh is engineered like a slot machine, the trouble with AI chatbots playing therapist — and the now-infamous Mike Rogers AI muscle photo that Mallory absolutely had to address.
Mallory McMorrow is running in the 2026 Democratic primary for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat
CHAPTERS
0:00 “All gas, no brakes” — the AI layoffs already here
0:50 Who do you promote when AI takes the entry-level jobs?
1:20 The “six AI bros” and the 25–50% job-loss claim
1:55 They build it — but won’t let their own kids use it
2:15 Should “We the People” own 50% of AI?
2:40 The real human cost of addictive tech
3:40 Your phone is a slot machine
4:40 Regulate AI like a defective produc
5:00 AI chatbots pretending to be therapists
5:25 Paying $99 a year to get off your phone
6:50 The Mike Rogers AI muscle photo
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