Erik Brynjolfsson

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Hard Fork · The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

You're going to have outcomes that involve people more, that compliment people more rather than just replace them.

Right.

But like, well, let me just say this, you know, there's three reasons for doing this.

Okay.

One is that I do think it's the right thing for society, but let's just set that one aside for now.

The second reason is that I think it's in their enlightened self-interest that

that they should, that the more defense, I could teach at business schools, corporate strategy, the better strategy, the more defensible strategy is creating new products and services and barriers to entry, not just cutting costs.

And then the third thing I'll say is it's true.

There are a lot of tax and other incentives right now that skew companies disproportionately towards investing in capital versus labor.

For instance, marginal tax rates on capital are lower than marginal tax rates on labor.

And so

So if you have a strategy that replaces a lot of workers with machines, you end up paying lower taxes.

That's a flaw, I think, in the tax system.

That's something we can fix and create better incentives for managers to cheat them more evenly.

And then last but not least, I do think there are a lot of people who will embrace this because it is the right thing for the world.

And I think their workforce is going to like working at that company.

if it's a company that does right by them.

And what would you like to see more of?

This is something I'm super focused on right now.

Sadly, as we're going to one of the most turbulent periods in all of economic history, we are destroying our instrument panel.

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