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

We can draw lessons from the past, right?

So are policymakers acting on those lessons?

I think policymakers are starting to grapple with those lessons, which is not the same as saying that they're acting on them.

You know, we're starting to kind of see this process play out both at the political level and at kind of the Washington think tank policy level.

We're starting to see some discussions in Congress and in state capitals, but I don't think we've seen anybody

from either party kind of lay out a comprehensive plan that anybody thinks is really going to tackle this in a big way.

I think many would find that concerning.

I mean, what should we be doing?

When you talk to economists, what do they say?

Well, so when I talk to economists now, what I hear from them are a few sort of things that we really need to be tackling.

One of them is this measurement question.

Can we improve our ability to track this, right?

Can we develop new tools to allow us to measure this in more real time so that we actually know what has happened, so we know which workers are being affected and where they are and what is happening to them?

Identify who may need help the most and then go and help those people.

But first, you've got to identify which sectors are going to get hit.

That's exactly right.

Then the question becomes, okay, now what do we do to help whoever is being affected here?

When I talk to economists and policy experts on this, one thing that they say is, look, given the uncertainty, step one is to shore up some of the existing systems that we have.

You know, the U.S.

has an unemployment insurance system, but we all learned during the pandemic that

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