Episode Transcripts

Robin Hanson: Radical Fixes for Falling Fertility and AI Alignment
Nov 6, 2026
LSE Professor Sarah Bana on How AI is Changing Hiring, Academic Publishing, and Religion
Oct 26, 2026
The Economics of a Global AI Treaty and Recursive Self-Improvement (w/ Epoch and Stanford's Philip Trammell)
Oct 12, 2026
Harvard Dean David Deming on AI and the Future of Harvard
Sep 28, 2026
Daron Acemoglu on pro-worker AI and vibes based capital
Sep 14, 2026
Martin Beraja on AI-tocracy, the Benefits of Unclear Property Rights, and the Massive Potential of AI to Optimize Firms
Aug 31, 2026
Does GDP Growth Mislead Us About Quality of Life?
Aug 10, 2026
Is AI Replacing Programmers or Boosting Them?
Jul 27, 2026
No AI Jobs Apocalypse (Yet) - and a Debt Problem (Now) | Martha Gimbel (Yale Budget Lab)
Jul 13, 2026
Litigating the Pope's AI Encyclical with the Lawyers of Scaling Laws Pod
Jun 29, 2026
Ioana Marinescu on Insuring Workers for AI, Monopsony, and Philosophy
Jun 15, 2026
Kevin Bryan on Bottlenecks, AI in China, and What Economists Should Actually Be Working On
Jun 1, 2026
Seb Krier on AGI, the Coasean Singularity, and EDM
May 19, 2026
Avi Goldfarb on Prediction Machines, O-Ring Tasks, and How AI is Reshaping Economics
May 4, 2026
The classic model that shows why AI exposure could increase wages
Apr 20, 2026
The Most Important Philosophical Treatise of the 21st Century?
Apr 7, 2026
Alex Imas - Demand Collapse, Bargaining with Machines, and Behavioral AI Economics
Mar 23, 2026
The Economics of Book Slop
Mar 10, 2026
Noah Smith on Blogging, AI Economics, and Elite Overproduction
Feb 24, 2026
Basil Halperin: Leading Indicators for TAI, Conditions for the Singularity, and Tax Policy at the End of History
Feb 9, 2026
Can an AI Interview You Better Than a Human?
Jan 26, 2026
Anecdotes from AI Supercharged Science
Jan 13, 2026
Ben Golub: AI Referees, Social Learning, and Virtual Currencies
Dec 29, 2025
Are We There Yet? Evaluating METR’s Eval of AI’s Ability to Complete Tasks of Different Lengths
Dec 15, 2025
Epistemic Apocalypse and Prediction Markets (Bo Cowgill Pt. 2)
Dec 2, 2025
Does AI Cheapen Talk? (Bo Cowgill Pt. 1)
Nov 18, 2025
Evaluating GDPVal, OpenAI's Eval for Economic Value
Nov 4, 2025
Will Super-Intelligence's Opportunity Costs Save Human Labor?
Oct 21, 2025
Can political science contribute to the AI discourse?
Oct 7, 2025
Should AI Read Without Permission?
Sep 22, 2025
EMERGENCY POD: Is AI already causing youth unemployment?
Sep 9, 2025
AI and its labor market effects in the knowledge economy
Aug 25, 2025
One LLM to rule them all?
Aug 12, 2025
What can we learn from AI exposure measures?
Jul 28, 2025
A Resource Curse for AI?
Jul 14, 2025
Robots for the retired?
Jun 30, 2025
When Humans and Machines Don't Say What They Think
Jun 16, 2025
Scaling Laws Meet Persuasion
Jun 3, 2025
Techno-prophets try macroeconomics: are they hallucinating?
May 19, 2025
Did Meta's Algorithms Swing the 2020 Election?
May 5, 2025
Claude Just Refereed the Anthropic Economic Index
Apr 21, 2025
How much should we invest in AI safety?
Apr 7, 2025
Can AI make better decisions than an ER doctor?
Mar 24, 2025
If the Robots Are Coming, Why Aren't Interest Rates Higher?
Mar 10, 2025
Is Social Media a Trap?
Jan 26, 2025
Beyond Task Replacement
Jan 11, 2025
The Simple Macroeconomics of AI
Dec 21, 2024
Situational Awareness
Dec 7, 2024