Infinite Loops Sangeet Paul Choudary — AI and our System Reshuffle (EP.282)
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Sep 18, 2025 
Sangeet Paul Choudary, a bestselling author and senior fellow at UC Berkeley, dives into the profound impacts of AI on the economy. He argues that knowledge workers may soon find themselves 'below the algorithm,' with curiosity and judgment becoming rare commodities in a world of automated responses. Sangeet advocates for a complete overhaul of education and career structures, emphasizing the need for innovative hiring practices and collective sense-making to navigate systemic changes. His insights challenge conventional wisdom and provoke thought about our future.
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AI Rewires Systems Not Just Tasks
- AI will reshape systems and industries more than individual task automation.
- The big effects come from rewiring coordination, organization, and competition across firms.
Container's Economy-Altering Lesson
- The shipping container is a simple technology that transformed global trade and manufacturing.
- Standardization enabled logistics reliability, component competition, and globalization.
Coordination Without Consensus
- AI enables "coordination without consensus" by making sense of fragmented, unstructured inputs.
- That orchestration power can unlock new value without large incumbents agreeing first.
