Steve Levitt

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962 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 31 Jul

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Freakonomics Radio · 683. In the New Space Race, Who Makes the Rules? · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

Let's hope that the great majority of that 10%

Is your expectations about AI not nuclear holocaust or whatever incredible societal disaster that would lead us to be no longer able to launch satellites?

But you think that AI apocalypse is not among the leading worries of the next 40 years?

I've gone over time.

I apologize.

I was so engaged in our conversation, I didn't look at the clock.

Freakonomics Radio · 682. Should A.I. Move to Space? · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

Hi, I'm Steve Levitt.

From 2020 to 2025, I had my own podcast on the Freakonomics Network called People I Mostly Admire.

And I had a guest on my show in 2024 who changed the way I thought about artificial intelligence.

Since then, AI has only become more relevant, and so has this guest's work.

Blaze has had an unusual life.

Let me give you one example.

One of his first jobs was with a U.S.

Navy research center where he reprogrammed the software that stabilizes aircraft carriers to reduce the seasickness of the crew.

At the time, he was only 14 years old.

When I talked to him in 2024, we had a conversation about how you can know if AI is truly intelligent.

So when Aguero Iacos told me he had founded a new AI project at Google called the Paradigms of Intelligence team, I wanted to know more.

So mostly when people say they work on AI at a place like Google, it means you're part of a huge team that's building enormous models and training them on endless amounts of data for the next release.

But that's not what your team is doing.

You're working on

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