Stephen Dubner

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14,500 appearances 96 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 3d ago

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Freakonomics Radio · 685. How to Survive the A.I. Shock · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

And maybe you'll tell me they're not meant to be the primary engine, that this really is a collaboration between government and firms and so on. voice-verified

But we spoke with a few people in anticipation of this conversation with you. voice-verified

One of them was Michael Strain from the American Enterprise Institute. voice-verified

He said, you know, we've already got basic policy architecture for worker retraining and reskilling. voice-verified

Skilling, and then there's social insurance for people who are involuntarily unemployed and a social safety net for people with low incomes. voice-verified

So he said we might have to turn some of those dials and adjust the parameters, but the basic system seems to be already in place. voice-verified

Why do you not agree with that? voice-verified

Software. voice-verified

Pretzels on software, sorry. voice-verified

Says the former governor who made community college free in her state, if I recall correctly. voice-verified

So if this was you, you could say I'm pretty good at understanding the software that I sell and yada yada, communicating that to potential clients. voice-verified

Exactly. voice-verified

I'm good at communicating. voice-verified

I see the corporate backers of Raise Us are it's a long list and they're really good firms ADP, Autodesk, Blackstone, Cisco, MasterCard. voice-verified

But then there are the anchor funders, which are Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and the OpenAI Foundation, all of whom are either making or heavily involved in using AI. voice-verified

And then I read the total amount of funding. voice-verified

It looks like you've got a commitment for about a voice-verified

Half a billion dollars on a raise of ultimately a billion. voice-verified

So to me, please forgive my skepticism or maybe even cynicism at that point, but to me, that's A, that's a drop in the bucket for these firms, and it buys you good headlines, and it feels like a little bit of reputational laundering. voice-verified

Like, yes, we're the firms who are making this product, in this case software essentially, that has already made us firms. voice-verified

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