Ezra Klein

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1,272 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard yesterday

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

What would those models mean for labor markets, for our kids, for our politics, for our world? voice-verified

I think that period in which we're always talking about the future, I think it's over now. voice-verified

Those models we were waiting for, the sci-fi sounding models that could program on their own and do so faster and better than most coders, the models that could begin writing their own code to improve themselves, those models are here now. voice-verified

They're here in Cloud Code from Anthropic. voice-verified

They're here in Codex from OpenAI. voice-verified

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

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