David Wallace-Wells

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599 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Aug

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The Opinions · A.I. Hype Is Running Into Reality · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

We're going to use this technology to find ways to downsize the workforce, you're like, that sounds credible coming from billionaires.

Now, it's not to say that exactly what they're saying that we're going to lose 50% of white-collar work is all that plausible.

I'm personally skeptical.

But if I put myself in the shoes of, you know, an open-minded, engaged, normy American, and I think here's this guy who's telling me that AI is so great it's going to grow at 50% per year.

And here's this guy who's gonna who's telling me he's gonna use it to find a way to fire people.

I'm like, I believe the guy who's telling me he's gonna use it to fire people.

I mean it's I think it's the reason that I'm skeptical that that um resistance will decline.

I mean, I could be wrong.

I don't have a crystal ball.

Um I'm gonna ask you in a minute to look into your your crystal ball, but I don't have a crystal ball.

But what what I think is seems likely is that um this becomes a bigger obstacle imposing more costs and um you know, making the the build out of

Of risk.

Okay, so we'll pull back from these unknowable questions about politics and focus on the incredible, incredibly knowable stuff about how the market is going to evolve and how we can all make a killing going forward.

So um if we're thinking about the possibility of a market correction here, like some meaningful change in the basic fate and valuation of these companies and the sector as a whole, like what should we be

looking for?

How will that play out?

If we if we're like imagining a scenario in which the problems that we've identified are serious

and are really getting in the way of, you know, the

The economic promise of AI in the medium term.

Where are we gonna see that show up and how will it shake out for the rest of us?

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