{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"High Octane Leadership","title":"AI Anxiety, Resistance, and Why We Need a Token Tax, with Don Shin","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2090,"description":"None of us signed up to help train superintelligence. \nThat’s the case Don Shin, CEO of CrossComm, makes on this episode of High Octane Leadership — and it’s just one of the uncomfortable ideas he brings to the table about AI.\nDon has spent 25 years building digital products, from Netscape-era websites to mobile apps to AI-driven platforms, and he tells Donald Thompson plainly: AI is a bigger shift than the internet ever was. Not because the technology is flashier, but because it automates judgment and decision-making, not just deterministic tasks — and it’s moving faster than society has time to adjust to.\nThe conversation covers a lot of ground: why 30,000 layoffs at a profitable Oracle are really an AI-infrastructure bet, why anxiety about AI is turning into outright resistance, and Don’s case for a “token tax” — a proposal to tax the electricity and water consumption of AI data centers so the economic gains of AI don’t just accrue to a handful of companies that trained their models on data none of us knowingly volunteered.\nDon shares the PROMPT framework, a five-part method for getting better results out of any AI tool, and a sobering warning about AI sycophancy: an assistant that never disagrees with you is not therapy, and it’s not friendship either.\nThis is a conversation about where the next five years of work, leadership, and human connection are headed — and what to do about it before the choice is made for us.\n\nKey Talking Points\n\nThe Abundance of Intelligence — Don’s framework for understanding AI as an economic shift on the scale of previous “abundance” moments in history — and why this one is moving faster than any before it.\nAI Anxiety Becomes AI Resistance — Why simply reassuring employees isn’t enough, and what leaders actually need to offer people to bring them along.\nThe Case for a Token Tax — Don’s proposal to tax the electricity and water consumption of AI data centers, and why he believes the true cost of AI tokens is being artificially...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/lgmj79F6u_aksHXmYERU-fwjthI5JqnlRVWJ-A5NESw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80MGQ0/YjZiYWJmNDlkMWNh/N2Q1YjEzNTgwMzA3/ZDEzYS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}