Matt McKinney

AI:AM LIVE — June 16, 2026 — Doom, Policy, and the Physical Economy: Liron Shapira, Samuel Hammond, Matt McKinney

A morning that ran from AI existential risk to the physical economy. The open took on 'phantom quantization' — the psychology of models that feel worse after release — Elon Musk's claim of Stockfish-level coding by year-end, and a contrarian read on the AI arms-race frame. Then three guests: Liron Shapira of Doom Debates on whether near-certain AI doom is calibrated or unfalsifiable; Samuel Hammond of the Foundation for American Innovation on AI consciousness and whether the state can govern AGI; and Loop CEO Matt McKinney on where enterprise AI is actually delivering ROI in supply chains.