Ezra Klein

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

We could go to Nobel Prize winners right now. voice-verified

and say, what should we do in this country? voice-verified

And a lot of them could give us some good ideas that we are not currently doing. voice-verified

I do worry sometimes, or I wonder, given my experience on other issues, whether we have overstated to ourselves how much of what stands between us and the expanding, abundant economy we want is that we don't have enough intelligence and the ideas that that intelligence could create versus our actual ability to implement things. voice-verified

is very weakened. voice-verified

And what AI is going to create is larger bottlenecks around that because there'll be more being pushed at the system to implement, including dumb ideas and disinformation and slot, right? voice-verified

Like it'll have things on the other side of the ledger too. voice-verified

How do you think about these voice-verified

rate limiters. voice-verified

Did you see that somebody created a system? voice-verified

that basically you feed it in the documents of a new development near you. voice-verified

It writes incredibly sophisticated challenges across every level of the code that you could possibly challenge on. voice-verified

So most people don't have the money when they want to stop an apartment building from going up down the block to hire a very sophisticated law firm to figure out how to stop that apartment building. voice-verified

But basically, this created that at scale. voice-verified

And so, as you say, right, it could eat bureaucracy, could also supercharge bureaucracy. voice-verified

What I notice in all this is that there is, as far as I can tell, zero agenda for public AI. voice-verified

What does society want from AI? voice-verified

What does it want this technology to be able to do? voice-verified

What are things that maybe you would have to create a business model or a prize model or some kind of government payout or some kind of policy to shape a market or to shape a system of incentives? voice-verified

So we have systems that are solving not just problems that the private market knows how to pay for, but problems that it's nobody's job but the public and the government to figure out how to solve. voice-verified

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