Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian Predicts Surge In Theater’s Popularity from AI Fatigue [Video]

Alexis Ohanian, cofounder of Reddit and founder of venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, said he believes that live theater and sports events will become increasingly popular as artificial intelligence reshapes the entertainment industry. Speaking on the “On Purpose with Jay Shetty” podcast this week, Ohanian described a future in which AI-driven entertainment pervades everyday life.

According to Ohanian, advances in technology will soon deliver on-screen content “better, faster, cheaper, and more dynamic.” He suggested that every screen will be programmed to display exactly what viewers want, “what we want, when we want it, how we want it,” he said. Yet, Ohanian noted that this saturation of highly engineered content might leave audiences missing simpler, more visceral experiences: “A part of our humanity will miss, you know, thousands of years ago when we were sitting around a campfire and that great storyteller was doing the voices and the impressions.”

Ohanian, 41, who co-founded …