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Svi Mosherwitz is a professor of economics at Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. His sub stack is Don't Worry About the Vase, which offers an in-depth compendium every week about what is happening in AI and elsewhere. Svi: Where do you think we are with AI? I think it's still very early days.

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.