#479 — When Robots Take Over
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Waking Up with Sam Harris
4.6 • 29.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Sam Harris speaks with Vinod Khosla about AI, economic disruption, and political risk. They discuss the prospect of mass job displacement, a trillion-dollar policy framework to redistribute AI's gains, the failure of the California wealth tax, the corporate capitulation to Trump, Elon Musk's embrace of white nationalist rhetoric, US-China competition, semiconductor dependence, and other topics.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Making Sense with Sam Harris. |
| 0:04.3 | This is the free version of the podcast, |
| 0:06.1 | so you'll only hear the first part of today's conversation. |
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| 0:18.8 | If you enjoy what we're doing here and find it valuable, |
| 0:21.3 | please consider subscribing today. I am here with Vinod Kosala. Vanot, it's great to see you. |
| 0:28.1 | Thanks for coming on the podcast. It's great to be here. So how would you describe your |
| 0:33.4 | background in business and tech before we jump into all things in your wheelhouse here? |
| 0:39.3 | You know, I can do the business part, but I've never really had an interest in business. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm sort of just very curious about tech and the impact it can have. So most of my focus is |
| 0:51.6 | what technology is coming down the line and what impact can it have and what |
| 0:56.0 | does it take to do that. So it's more about making things possible. I like to say, I like to |
| 1:02.4 | imagine the possible and then try and make that happen. That's sort of my main goal in life. |
| 1:09.0 | But you were a technologist first and then a venture capitalist second, correct? |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah, in fact, funny thing is I've never actually in 40 years called myself a venture capitalist. |
| 1:20.4 | Oh, sorry to insult you to your face. |
| 1:25.6 | So what do you call yourself? |
| 1:26.9 | I'm in the, yeah, I'm in the business of helping entrepreneurs build companies with new technology. |
| 1:33.3 | And I'm only curious about technology. |
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