Ezra Klein

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767 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 11 Sep

Ezra Klein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Hard Fork · The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? · 27 Mar 2026 podcast

They are shaking the stock market. voice-verified

The S&P 500 Software Industry Index has fallen by 20%, wiping billions of dollars in value out. voice-verified

Excellent engineers, people I've known for years, people who are quite skeptical of AI hype, they're emailing me now to say they don't see how their job will possibly exist in a year or two. voice-verified

We are at a new stage of AI development. voice-verified

Not just development, we are at a new stage of AI products. voice-verified

I thought the way Sequoia, the venture capital firm, put it was actually pretty helpful. voice-verified

The AI applications of 2023 and 2024 were talkers. voice-verified

Some were very sophisticated conversationalists, but their impact was limited. voice-verified

The AI applications of 2026 and 2027 will be doers. voice-verified

Or to put it differently, something that's been predicted for a long time has now happened. voice-verified

We are moving from chatbots to agents, from systems that talk to you to systems that act for you. voice-verified

And this world of agents, it's already weird. voice-verified

They're agents plural. voice-verified

They can work together. voice-verified

They can oversee each other. voice-verified

People are running swarms of these agents on their behalf. voice-verified

Whether that is making them at this stage more productive or just busier, I can't quite tell. voice-verified

But it is now possible to have what amounts to a team of incredibly fast, although to be honest, somewhat peculiar software engineers at your beck and call at all times. voice-verified

Jack Clark is a co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic, the company behind Claude and Claude Code. voice-verified

And for years now, Clark has been tracking the capabilities of different models in the weekly newsletter Import AI, which has been one of my key reads for following developments in AI. voice-verified

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