Ezra Klein

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1,272 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 2d ago

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

As you're facing this before the rest of us are, don't pass the buck over to society here. voice-verified

What are you doing? voice-verified

But is this world you're talking about, a system where you have AI agents coding, AI agents overseeing the code, AI agents overseeing the meta, overseeing, right? voice-verified

Like, are we just talking about voice-verified

models all the way down? voice-verified

This feels though like over time it could get into the quite unpleasant territory a lot of social media has gotten to where the amount of metadata being gathered from a quite personal interaction people are having with a system could be a lot. voice-verified

How confident are you that we can do this kind of monitoring and evaluation voice-verified

As these models become more complicated, as if we do enter a situation where we're voice-verified

Claude code is autonomously improving Claude at a rate faster than software engineers could possibly keep up with reading that code base. voice-verified

We already talked briefly about how you see the models exhibit some levels of deception, some levels of pursuing their own goals. voice-verified

I mean, there's been amazing interpretability work at Anthropic under Chris Ola and others, but it's rudimentary. voice-verified

So you're using AI systems you don't totally understand. voice-verified

to monitor AI systems you don't totally understand. voice-verified

And the systems are making each other stronger at an accelerating rate if things go the way you think they're gonna go. voice-verified

How confident are you that we're gonna understand that? voice-verified

I have read enough of the frightened ideas about AI superintelligence and takeoff to know that in almost every single one of them, the key move in the story voice-verified

is that the AI systems become recursively self-improving. voice-verified

They're writing their own code, they're deploying their own code, it's getting faster, they're writing it faster, they're deploying it faster, and now you're getting to faster and faster iteration cycles. voice-verified

Are you worried about it? voice-verified

Are you excited about it? voice-verified

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