Meet the creator tracking outlandish claims from AI executives every day
When Brian Patrick wakes up each day, he logs on to his computer and starts combing through social media, news articles, and You Tube videos to find the craziest things prominent AI executives have ever said. He always finds something. There’s the clip of Oracle founder Larry Ellison admitting to building body cameras that record users while they’re in the bathroom. A sound bite of Space X CEO Elon Musk advocating for merging humans with AI. Even an interview with Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann, in which he compares his relationship with AI wearables to peoples’ relationships with God. Once he’s pulled one of these clips, Patrick breaks down its claims in a video for his AI Executive Insanity Series, a social media project that’s chronicling one wild AI executive statement every day throughout 2026. The series—currently at 181 installments and counting—has notched tens of millions of views and thousands of comments since the start of the year, and continues to gain steam with each new installment. The series is part of a broader effort, spearheaded by Patrick, to convene a community of like-minded people interested in taking “democratic control” of AI. Through his self-founded organization, Panodime, he’s building a website and an app (expected to debut within the next several weeks) aimed at helping educate people about developments in the AI tech space and connecting those individuals to potential opportunities for collective action. He believes the public should be allowed to stop, pause, or direct AI development through a democratic process, rather than allowing the technology’s power to rest in the hands of a select few technocrats—and he’s bringing more attention to that choice, one video at a time. “[AI] just reached a point where it was clear to me that it was going to go off the rails in ways that are going to be irreversible if we don’t do anything about it in the near future,” Patrick says, adding, “There’s a small group of unaccountable