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

And AI does pose real risks to people and real things are going to go wrong for people. voice-verified

Everything from job loss to child exploitation to scams, which are already everywhere, to cybersecurity risks. voice-verified

Well, not just help people see. voice-verified

Right? voice-verified

They have to exist. voice-verified

If all the energy in AI is trying to beat each other to helping companies downsize their junior employees, I think people are going to have good reason to not trust that technology. voice-verified

It doesn't mean you shouldn't have things that make the economy more efficient. voice-verified

We have automated manufacturing, we have automated huge amount of farming, and that allows us to make more things and feed more people. voice-verified

I'm aware of how productivity improvements work. voice-verified

But we're very focused, I think, on what could go wrong. voice-verified

And that's reasonable. voice-verified

But I really do worry that our attention to what could go right has been quite poor. voice-verified

There's kind of hand-waving that this could help us solve problems in energy and medicine and so on. voice-verified

But these are hard problems. voice-verified

They need money. voice-verified

They need compute. voice-verified

If barely any of the compute is going to Alzheimer's research, then the systems are not going to do that much for Alzheimer's research. voice-verified

And I'm not saying this is not your fault. voice-verified

The absence of a... voice-verified

public agenda for AI that does not appear to be accelerating the automation of white color work. voice-verified

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