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Lex Fridman: belief

12 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger

“There’s to steel man the, the criticism in general, I do wanna say in my experience with Silicon Valley there’s a bit of a bubble in the sense that there’s a kind of excitement and an over-focus about the positive that the technology can bring.”

— Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman
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belief
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12 Feb 2026
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…And I’m not saying everything’s good. It’s certainly gonna be a very transformative technology for our society. There’s to steel man the, the criticism in general, I do wanna say in my experience with Silicon Valley there’s a bit of a bubble in the sense that there’s a kind of excitement and an over-focus about the positive that the technology can bring. Yeah.…

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