The 19 in an Extreme Version

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In an age when we're supposed to be really smart and nuances dead, it just requires you which expert expert you trust. We don't really have this sophistication to hold multiple ideas in our mind at the same time. There's a lot of return to being un-nuanced and very little return to being nuanced. So then that you might be right. You don't understand their trade offs.

The future of AI keeps Zvi Mowshowitz up at night. He also wonders why so many smart people seem to think that AI is more likely to save humanity than destroy it. Listen as Mowshowitz talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the current state of AI, the pace of AI's development, and where--unless we take serious action--the technology is likely to end up (and that end is not pretty). They also discuss Mowshowitz's theory that the shallowness of the AI extinction-risk discourse results from the assumption that you have to be either pro-technological progress or against it.