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2nd Order Thinkers.

If AI is a chess game, everyone"s analyzing the opening move. I"m asking what the board looks like three moves ahead. 2nd Order Thinkers explore the questions that challenge conventional wisdom and reveal hidden patterns in technology"s evolution. www.2ndorderthinkers.com

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15:37

Why Is AI Bubble Not Popping, Yet?

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2025/12/14

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers: https://www.2ndorderthinkers.com/ 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jing--hu/ 🔗 I study the gap between what's being sold about AI and what's actually happening.+++Everyone's screaming "AI bubble is bursting!" — pointing at Nvidia's inventory piling up. But they're reading the data wrong. I mapped the entire AI money chain and found something the headlines missed: the chips aren't sitting idle because nobody wants them. There's literally nowhere to

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16:12

Explain The McKinsey 2025 AI Report

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2025/11/30

McKinsey surveyed 1,993 companies about AI. Only 109 made the cut as “high performers”, 6% of all respondents who actually pull 5% or more of their earnings from it.That means almost everyone else in that crowd doesn’t see a return worth mentioning. They’ve got a strategy, they’ve spent on integration, and they probably ticked all the adoption boxes, whereas nothing to show for it in profit.This aligns with what MIT found: 95% of AI adoption initiatives fail to deliver expected returns.So it’s not

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11:50

Is Idiocracy a Snapshot of Humanity in 2035?

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2025/11/09

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers: https://www.2ndorderthinkers.com/I review the latest AI research and reports to help you develop your own informed perspective on AI.+++Idiocracy was supposed to be satire. Too extreme to actually happen. We're walking into it voluntarily—just through a different mechanism than the movie imagined.In this episode, we dive deep into the cognitive cost of frictionless AI use: - Unpack the latest critical thinking study showing how unguided AI use creates

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20:54

Are Junior-Level Jobs Really Killed by AI?

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2025/11/01

When Harvard says AI killed junior jobs but the timeline shows hiring crashed BEFORE ChatGPT even existed, are we witnessing groundbreaking research or just the fourth iteration of the same economic scapegoating we've seen since 1990?In this episode, we: - Expose the fatal flaw in Harvard's 62-million-worker study timeline - Reveal how interest rate hikes—not AI—triggered the 50% drop in entry-level positions - Map the identical pattern from 1990, 2001, 2008, and now 2024 recessions -

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23:52

I Saved You $1,000 and a Week in Conference Halls

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2025/10/25

Let’s Save You the Trouble.I spent time at IRM UK’s Data & AI Conference so you don’t have to. A ticket started from $1,000 for a full day of slides, some panel clichés, and polite applause. You can skip all that; here’s everything a decision maker actually needs to know in under 20 minutes.(Joking and being sarcastic aside, I do have great takeaways and met some interesting, likely long-term connections, so keep reading.) Everything below is yours, for less than the price of a sandwich, and you’ll

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27:19

Why Everyone Misread MIT’s 95% AI “Failure” Statistic?

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2025/10/18

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers: https://www.2ndorderthinkers.com/I review the latest AI research and reports to help you develop an informed, skeptical perspective on what’s actually happening in AI adoption.+++MIT’s viral 2025 report claimed that 95% of GenAI projects fail—a number that fueled panic headlines and boardroom anxiety.In this episode, we:Break down what MIT’s research really measures (and what it doesn’t)Compare its 95% “failure rate” with early PC and internet adoption

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23:04

OpenAI DevDay 2025: Trying What Google and Meta...

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2025/10/12

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers: https://www.2ndorderthinkers.com/I review the latest AI research and reports to help you develop your own informed perspective on AI.+++When OpenAI announces apps inside ChatGPT and promises you'll never leave the interface again, is it innovation—or are they repeating the same mistakes Google and Meta already made?In this episode, we:* Break down the three core assumptions OpenAI made building the Apps SDK—and why all three are wrong* Analyze the UX

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25:47

Goal Setting Kills Ethics: ‘Maximize Profit’ AI...

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2025/10/05

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers: https://www.2ndorderthinkers.com/I review the latest AI research and reports to help you develop your own informed perspective on AI. +++When 85% of people choose "maximize profit" over accuracy, are we delegating decisions or outsourcing our ethics?In this episode, we:* Dissect the Nature study revealing AI's 400% compliance gap with unethical requests* Examine why vague prompts ("make it compelling") create plausible deniability* Identify which guardrails

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22:48

AI Doesn't Discriminate Against You. It Just Prefers...

2nd Order Thinkers. ·

2025/09/27

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers: https://www.2ndorderthinkers.com/ I translate the latest AI research into plain English and answer your most challenging questions to help you develop your own informed perspective on AI. +++When AI systems prefer AI-generated content 60-95% of the time, are we building better filters, or creating an invisible caste system where machines choose machines?In this episode, we:Unpack Walter Laurito's groundbreaking research on AI-AI biasReveal why your perfectly

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37:37

Why Utah Uses More AI Than California?

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2025/09/20

When ChatGPT shifts from 50/50 work-personal to 70% personal use in just one year, are we funding productivity tools or the world's most expensive therapy chatbots?In this episode, we:- Expose why only 2.5% of ChatGPT's 800M users pay for premium- Reveal the MIT finding that 95% of enterprise AI investments return ZERO- Unpack why Claude's business focus beats ChatGPT's consumer approach- Decode the suspicious Utah AI usage anomaly and gender adoption flip- Debunk the mythical "$97 billion consumer

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28:37

All You Need For AI Risks.

2nd Order Thinkers. ·

2025/09/13

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers: https://www.2ndorderthinkers.com/I translate the latest AI research into plain English and answer your most challenging questions so you can build your own informed view on AI.+++Executives keep saying they “understand AI risk.” The evidence disagrees. This episode is the antidote: a plain-English tour of MIT’s AI Risk Repository—a living map of 1,600+ failure modes across 65 frameworks—so you stop guessing and start checking.In this episode, we:Decode MIT’s

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31:18

Is AI Gatekeeper Erasing YOUR Voice?

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2025/09/06

When AI starts reading irony better than your boss, b**********g smoother than your colleague, and even preferring other AIs over you… it’s time to pay attention.In this episode, we dive into three unsettling frontiers of AI behavior: - Mind-Reading or Mimicry? Why GPT-4 sometimes outperforms humans at social reasoning, and whether it’s real understanding or just pattern-matching. - Machine B******t: How reinforcement learning makes AI more polite—and more deceptive. - AI-AI Bias: The shocking

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21:43

Who Loves AI Products?

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2025/08/31

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers: https://www.2ndorderthinkers.com/I translate the latest AI research into plain English and answer your toughest questions, so you can develop your own informed take on AI.+++When it comes to AI, the real paradox isn’t technical—it’s psychological.In this episode, we dig into a global six-study report that found the less you know about AI, the more you tend to trust and use it.We’ll cover:Why “AI Enthusiasm Paradox” flips common sense about tech

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2:45

Early Signals of AI, Human Coevolution

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2025/08/16

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers: https://www.2ndorderthinkers.com/Humans x AI behaviour mindmap: https://xmind.ai/share/ZfoXStHT?xid=Gr8eiBM3 (beta)I translate new AI research into plain English so you can build a sharp, hype-free view of where this is going.+++Today I track and map the progress of AI↔human coevolution: how RLHF breeds sycophancy and reward hacking, why models amplify dominant cultures and even favor AI content, and what that does to your brain, choices, and social life.In

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15:41

We Are All Jokers In 2035.

2nd Order Thinkers. ·

2025/08/11

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers: https://www.2ndorderthinkers.com/I translate the latest AI research into plain English and answer your most challenging questions to help you develop your own informed perspective on AI.+++Are you steering your own life, or is your AI quietly taking the wheel?This episode dives into the hidden ways AI is shaping our choices, purpose, and agency in 2035—whether we notice or not.In this episode, we: - Expose how AI “helpfulness” can quietly erode your sense

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39:52

Call Me A Jerk!

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2025/08/02

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers: https://www.2ndorderthinkers.com/I translate the latest AI research into plain English and tackle your toughest questions, so you can develop your own BS detector for all things AI.+++What happens when AI chatbots fall for every persuasion trick in the book?In this episode, we: - Unpack the psychology hacks that make even “smart” AIs cave in—think authority, commitment, and that fake “we’re family” unity vibe. - Break down which tricks work best and why

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22:59

Where Do You Stand in the AI Hierarchy?

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2025/07/26

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers: https://jwho.substack.com/I break down the latest AI research into plain English, minus the hype—just actionable insight and uncomfortable questions to keep you thinking for yourself.+++Where do you stand in the AI hierarchy?AI is no longer a tool—it’s the operating system for life in 2035. Some people run the show; most are just along for the ride.In this episode/article, we: - Expose how AI is quietly reshaping your brain, attention span, and sense of

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26:01

Alone, Together.

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2025/07/19

How AI Changes Us: Alone, TogetherIs AI making us more human—or less? In this episode, we dive into “Being Human in 2035,” the landmark Elon University report that brought together 300+ experts to predict how AI will reshape our ability to connect, empathize, and trust… or lose it all.Here’s what you’ll get: - Why loneliness could skyrocket, even as we’re surrounded by AI “friends” - What happens when bots know our feelings better than we do (and never argue about where to eat) - The social

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27:25

Is Brainstorming With AI REALLY A Good Idea?

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2025/07/12

✉️ Stay Updated With 2nd Order Thinkers:https://jwho.substack.com/I break down the latest AI and creativity research in plain English—so you can actually think for yourself in an era of algorithmic sameness.+++Is AI helping us think outside the box, or quietly making our ideas all the same?This episode dives into the paradox of “AI creativity”—where large language models ace creativity tests, but our collective ideas become strangely… familiar.In this episode: - The difference between originality

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23:33

AI Makes Us All Speak American?!

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2025/07/05

🎧 Episode: “Mind the Gap—How AI is Flattening the World’s Languages”What happens when the bots running the internet can only speak one kind of English—and it’s not yours? Are we sleepwalking into a future where the quirks, idioms, and inside jokes that make our cultures unique are bulldozed by Silicon Valley’s linguistic steamroller?In this episode, I dig into:- Why GenAI is speeding up the “Americanization” of English (and the “simplification” of Chinese)- The hidden cost: What we lose when AI

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