All Episodes

Avi Goldfarb on Prediction Machines, O-Ring Tasks, and How AI is Reshaping Economics

The classic model that shows why AI exposure could increase wages

The Most Important Philosophical Treatise of the 21st Century?

Alex Imas - Demand Collapse, Bargaining with Machines, and Behavioral AI Economics

The Economics of Book Slop

Noah Smith on Blogging, AI Economics, and Elite Overproduction

Basil Halperin: Leading Indicators for TAI, Conditions for the Singularity, and Tax Policy at the End of History

Can an AI Interview You Better Than a Human?

Anecdotes from AI Supercharged Science

Ben Golub: AI Referees, Social Learning, and Virtual Currencies

Are We There Yet? Evaluating METR’s Eval of AI’s Ability to Complete Tasks of Different Lengths

Epistemic Apocalypse and Prediction Markets (Bo Cowgill Pt. 2)

Does AI Cheapen Talk? (Bo Cowgill Pt. 1)

Evaluating GDPVal, OpenAI's Eval for Economic Value

Will Super-Intelligence's Opportunity Costs Save Human Labor?

Can political science contribute to the AI discourse?

Should AI Read Without Permission?

EMERGENCY POD: Is AI already causing youth unemployment?

AI and its labor market effects in the knowledge economy

One LLM to rule them all?

What can we learn from AI exposure measures?

A Resource Curse for AI?

Robots for the retired?

When Humans and Machines Don't Say What They Think

Scaling Laws Meet Persuasion

Techno-prophets try macroeconomics: are they hallucinating?

Did Meta's Algorithms Swing the 2020 Election?

Claude Just Refereed the Anthropic Economic Index

How much should we invest in AI safety?

Can AI make better decisions than an ER doctor?

If the Robots Are Coming, Why Aren't Interest Rates Higher?

High Prices, Higher Welfare? The Auto Industry as a Case Study

Scaling Laws in AI

Is Social Media a Trap?

Beyond Task Replacement

The Simple Macroeconomics of AI

Situational Awareness