Zolan Kano-Youngs

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936 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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The Daily · What A.I. Is Actually Doing to the Economy · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

You know, companies right now are being rewarded by their investors for making big claims about AI, right?

Any company that says, you know, we're making big AI investments, we're making big gains, their stock price goes up, right?

The VC money floods in, right?

And so if you're a CEO right now and you're thinking, maybe I overhired a little bit a couple years ago.

Maybe I need to make some cuts.

Boy, you are incentivized right now to say not like, oh, I screwed up.

I hired too many people.

It's, oh, AI has made me more productive.

Oh, this is interesting.

So you're saying it's likely that AI could be a convenient scapegoat for these companies?

Yeah, or look, to be a little less cynical about it, in some cases, AI may be one factor among many.

Your business has slowed down a little bit.

You're trying to, you know, rethink how you do things.

And then AI is also creating some opportunities.

But it's better to talk about the AI part of that than the other part of that.

That's different from sort of saying, hey, I'm just going to, you know, lay off a whole bunch of workers tomorrow because AI can do it today.

Okay.

So when it comes to measuring AI, government data is outdated.

Private sector data is muddy.

We can't fully trust the companies.

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