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

But don't you think the way people are going to discover themselves is with the technology? voice-verified

I think you were one of the first people who said to me, I should try keeping a journal in the systems. voice-verified

And I've done that on and off. voice-verified

And one thing it does is it makes it more interesting to keep a journal because you have something reflecting back at you and picking out themes and so on. voice-verified

But the other thing it does is voice-verified

is, like, I feel it as a pull towards self-obsession. voice-verified

Because, you know, I drop in, you know, I audio record a journal entry and I drop it in, and all of a sudden I have this endlessly interested other system to tell me about me, and it connects to something I said earlier. voice-verified

Ezra, you're going through an amazing journey here. voice-verified

And I generally can't tell if it's a good thing or a bad thing. voice-verified

But, I mean, we already know from survey data that a lot of what people are doing on these systems is adjacent to therapy. voice-verified

And I just wonder how much it'll be a social force. voice-verified

I think we've given a lot of attention, correctly so, to the places where it moved into psychosis or sort of strange AI-human relationships. voice-verified

We're seeing it through its most extreme manifestations, and those will become more widespread. voice-verified

I'm not saying they are not worth the attention. voice-verified

But for most people, it is just going to be a kind of a pressure. voice-verified

In the same way that being on Instagram, I think, makes people more vain. voice-verified

In the same way that we have become more capable of seeing ourselves in the third person, the mirror is a technology. voice-verified

I mean, I think it's funny that the myth of Narcissus, he's got to look in a pond. voice-verified

It was actually quite unusual to see yourself for much of human history. voice-verified

So when the mirrors came out, they were like, oh, this is going to lead to some issues. voice-verified

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