S8 Ep326: ECONOMIC LIBERTY AND THE LABOR MARKET IN THE AGE OF AI Colleague Kevin Frazier. Kevin Frazier explores how AI is reshaping the economy, noting that liberal arts graduates may be better positioned than STEM majors to handle new information synthesis. He ad
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:53.7 | I'm John Batchel. I welcome my colleague Kevin Fraser. He's at the University of Texas at Law School Fellow, and he is working very carefully in a new category entirely on planet Earth, which is artificial intelligence, meets the regulators of the states, of the institutions, of the government, of the |
| 1:15.5 | global governments collectively. And eventually at the UN, I imagine they will have deep thoughts |
| 1:21.8 | about AI, especially when it comes to labor. So I welcome Kevin. He has written an article very carefully |
| 1:29.3 | looking at some of the risks we can now see inherent in AI. It is entitled positively |
| 1:36.4 | entrepreneurial liberty in the age of AI. Kevin, as a senior fellow at the Abundance Institute, we now have a story that is going in many |
| 1:49.5 | directions. So I want to shape this very carefully. There is grave talk in Europe of AI and social |
| 1:59.3 | media in general, but certainly AI, as a threat to the population, the well-being of |
| 2:06.1 | citizens. I'm looking at Britain. And the inability of a parliament to reach out and punish or stop |
| 2:15.4 | or intimidate an international system, one out of California, but not |
| 2:21.3 | a state you can find anywhere or a law you can find anywhere. You and I have been talking about this |
| 2:27.7 | for less than a year. This feels brand new. It feels like nobody's working this area. Is that accurate, Kevin? And how would |
| 2:36.1 | you describe the tension that's building up? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Thank you for |
| 2:41.5 | having me on, as always. I think you're spot on that this issue has been pretty much defined by |
| 2:47.9 | extremes. On the one hand, we hear people talking about AI leading to nearly every job, |
| 2:54.1 | from entry level to the most senior professional roles being eliminated perhaps in one to five years. |
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