Ezra Klein

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

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

Usually what you're doing... voice-verified

when you are helping people buy time is you're helping them wait out a time-delimited disruption. voice-verified

Not always, right? voice-verified

The China shock wasn't exactly like that, but that you expect to pass and then the market is sort of normal. voice-verified

In this case, what you have is a technology that if what you want to have happen happens, voice-verified

The technology is accelerating. voice-verified

So what you have is like three different speeds happening here. voice-verified

You have the speed at which individual people can adjust. voice-verified

How fast can I learn new skills, figure out a new world, learn AI, whatever it might be. voice-verified

You have a speed at which the AI systems, which a couple of years ago were not capable of doing the work of a median college grad from a good school. voice-verified

And you have the speed of policy. voice-verified

And the speed at which the AI systems are getting better and able to do more things is quite fast. voice-verified

I mean, you experience this more than I do, but I find it hard to even cover this because within three months, something else will have come out that has significantly changed what is possible. voice-verified

Individual humans are... voice-verified

Moving more slowly than that. voice-verified

And policy and government institutions move a lot more slowly than individual human beings. voice-verified

And so typically the intervention is that time favors the worker, as you're saying. voice-verified

And here it will help the worker. voice-verified

But I think the scary question is whether time just actually creates time for the disruption to get worse. voice-verified

Maybe you wanted to move over to data center construction, but actually now we don't need as much data center construction. voice-verified

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