#26: Restaurants, AI, and the Radical Power of Caring for Each Other with CK Chin

What you’ll hear in this episode:Why hospitality is about how you make people feel — not what you serveHow restaurants become emotional landmarks in people’s livesA powerful real-world example of feeding the community with dignityConscious capitalism, B Corps, and why profits without humanity failWhy food is one of the most ancient and sacred forms of careParenting, generational wisdom, and breaking inherited patternsThe danger of outsourcing our humanity to AIHow AI mirrors our values — and what that says about usWhy abundance isn’t excess, but shared sufficiencyA parable that perfectly explains Heaven and human cooperationAbout Love Conquers Fear:In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on Linkedin: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/⁠Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on Medium: ⁠https://databrett.medium.com⁠Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on Substack: ⁠https://brettahurt.substack.com/⁠Love Conquers Fear on Youtube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@LoveConquersFear2025⁠Love Conquers Fear on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/6wngdSw7FmdibLC9mu300q⁠Love Conquers Fear on Apple: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-conquers-fear/id1841734456⁠About CK ChinCK Chin is an Austin-based restaurateur, hospitality leader, and community builder known for creating restaurants rooted in warmth, dignity, and human connection. With over a decade in the restaurant industry, CK is the founder and operator behind beloved Austin establishments including Wu Chow, Swift’s Attic, and Toshokan. His work blends conscious capitalism, cultural storytelling, and a deep commitment to serving both guests and the broader community, using food as a vehicle for care, belonging, and shared humanity.Timestamps:00:00 – Episode preview01:15 – Opening reflections & why this conversation matters02:09 – OpenAI, AI ethics, and the danger of false sentience02:36 – Conscious Capitalism, B Corps, and redefining success03:02 – Why capitalism must account for all stakeholders04:33 – Objectification and how technology shapes behavior05:26 – Abundance for All vs. fear-based systems06:16 – Nuclear weapons, MAD, and humanity’s shadow08:41 – Introducing CK Chin & the soul of hospitality09:27 – “Hospitality isn’t service: it’s how you make people feel”10:41 – Post-pandemic dining, convenience, and what we lost12:18 – Conscious Capitalism in action: feeding people with dignity13:19 – Why charity without dignity does harm14:00 – The Family Table, community care, and shared humanity18:09 – Parenting, identity, and breaking generational cycles25:05 – Alcohol, ceremony, and intentional living33:15 – Why younger generations are rejecting excess36:00 – Technology, addiction, and the illusion of abundance37:51 – Food, culture, and human connection49:19 – Restaurants as emotional landmarks in people’s lives1:08:14 – Why we fear sentient machines1:10:00 – What dystopian AI stories reveal about us1:17:36 – AI as a mirror of human values1:20:00 – Teaching AI vs. teaching children1:33:57 – The six-foot chopsticks parable (Heaven)1:34:00 – Abundance vs. overconsumption1:37:00 – Food waste, seasonality, and imbalance1:42:45 – Why empathy must become action1:44:25 – Human connection in a post-AI world1:45:00 – Closing reflections: letting Love conquer fear