You know your ability to steer technology you can't micromanage everything science gets underway it takes its directions

It's very hard to go in reverse so I think the better attitude is to work on the quality of our institutions for the freer

and nicer nations to have the better science and really to charge straight ahead and try to do it right.

If we as human beings can't have a new positive development

that gives us more intelligence, if we can't get that right, I mean what are we

doing here? What is it we think we can get right? What kind of vision is that of the world? On this podcast our guests offer up a healthy helping of doom and gloom on everything

from geopolitics to economics and popular culture.

But today's guest is surprisingly upbeat about the world.

He thinks America, even some of its major cities, even much of a Europe, can rebound. And a big factor in his optimism is the

revolution in artificial intelligence that we're about to live through. Tyler Cowan is an economics

professor at George Mason University and he's the

faculty director of the Mercata Center which is a sort of a think tank at George

Mason University that focuses on free markets and solutions from

free markets to major problems. He's the co-author with Alex de Barak of the

economics blog Marginal Revolution. I highly recommend reading

marginal revolution. I visited almost daily. It has received

something like hundreds of millions of unique page views since it was

founded. It's actually the number one viewed economics blog in the world.

And he's also co-founder and runs Marginal Revolution University, which is a series of online resources for anyone who wants to get smart or just

learn the basics of economics.

And you can use resources there as a student or you can gather resources there as a teacher as I recently did when I had to teach a class on inflation to high schoolers.

His podcast, Conversations with Tyler is one of my favorites.

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