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Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok on AI, Jobs, and Economic Growth

aired Jun 09, 2026 · 59.0m
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Summary

In a world with strong AI, there's a kind of moral nervousness that sets in. So I'm much more likely to tell people, like, hey, you'd better fasten your seatbelt.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of know, think, it's, including: So I'm much more likely to tell people, like, hey, you'd better fasten your seatbelt.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Will increasingly capable systems eliminate jobs, create new ones, or fundamentally change the relationship between labor, productivity, and economic growth?
  2. 02So one of the neatest properties of current AI models is they allow a small number of individuals working with AI to really do a lot more work than was possible previously So this
  3. 03The biomedical sector and medical trials, there will be many, many, many more ideas to test
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