33,000 Downloads: AI Destroys Institutions (Interview with Jessica Silbey)

Her co-authored paper went viral.

Its thesis: AI isn't just disrupting institutions — it's structurally incompatible with them. "A death sentence". Whew. Buckle up.

Jessica Silbey (BU Law, Guggenheim Fellow, Berkman Klein) came on Womansplaining AI to explain why efficiency is the enemy of equality, why students are afraid to not know things anymore, and why she thinks AI abstinence should be the new dry January.

Plus: the Constitution is a poem, friction is the feature, and Mara reads Yeats.