Tyler Cowen

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2,016 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 20 Jul

Tyler Cowen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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TBPN · Tyler Cowen Doesn't Think America Should Ban Chinese AI Models · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

But as you know, with venture capital, there's a valley of death.

I don't know that the government should be making grants to 16 year olds, but someone should.

I'm doing it.

Other people should as well.

So this is really the province of youth.

There's nowhere you can go to learn this stuff other than, say, some of the major AI centers and companies.

So you've got to teach yourself.

And is there the support in your environment for that?

We will see.

With AI maniacs, I'm going younger and weirder.

And I've also noticed Europe is doing pretty well on the AI maniacs metric.

We'll see how it develops as the costs rise.

But I've been pleasantly surprised, and I'm now more optimistic about Europe than I was six months ago.

Well, these kids may yet go to America.

They're too young to be going now.

Maybe it's that.

You know, chatbots didn't interest the Europeans that much.

They seem to, like, compete with culture.

Agents are a chance to do something.

Now, American kids have had opportunities to do things for a long time.

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