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Robert Rubin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
171 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

And admittedly, you can define AGI a lot of different ways.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

I get that.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

But wherever you want to define it,

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

I don't need to question that AI is moving, at least in my opinion, I may be wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong, moving very quickly toward ever more sophisticated capabilities that can more and more replicate the neural processes of the human mind.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

Yeah, I get the point.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

And this is a good debate.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

This is the kind of things that if you have sensible people sitting in a room,

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

you can really discuss in very interesting ways.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

No, I actually don't agree with Lisa.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

I'm much more concerned about the possibility of inflation.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

And if you run the economy too hot, and you get higher rate of inflation, and that in turn has a weaker dollar, and it has higher interest rates, I think that can have a lot more adverse effect than the benefits you're getting from Fed funds rates being lower and whatever you think might contribute.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

So you might actually accomplish the opposite of what you wish.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

So I know if I were at the, look, nobody's going to ask me what I think at the Fed, I promise you, but if anybody did, I think I would say to them, you've got a dual mandate under Humphrey Hawkins, as we all know, and I would worry more about the inflationary side of that than I would, I'd worry about both, but I'd be quite concerned about inflation.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

Well, 1970s are an interesting time.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

And that's actually what Paul Volcker was talking about when he and I were talking about this.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

I don't know, probably not many of you here, well, maybe none of you actually lived through the 1970s.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

I did.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

And inflation took on a life of its own, Lisa.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

And inflation, this was Paul's point, inflation expectations built on themselves, and once that happens, it's very, very hard to deal with.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Talks Tariffs

And Paul's point was, and I think he's right about this, that once inflation gets going, inflation expectations are very, very difficult to deal with.