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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Economist and polymath Tyler Cowen challenges Silicon Valley's optimistic projections about AI-driven economic growth. We explore what could slow down AI's economic impact, despite its remarkable capabilities – and where humans find the new normal amidst major shifts.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The AI is already smarter than I am.

0:02.3

If there were some kind of like economics Olympics,

0:04.8

and I was up against O3, O3 would beat me.

0:07.4

That's not hypothetical.

0:08.6

That's today.

0:09.5

What's interesting is how little it matters.

0:11.4

Did you have a particular O-Shit moment when you were using these large language models

0:15.4

where you saw something that you hadn't expected?

0:17.7

Real depth.

0:18.4

So I use O3 a lot to ask it about classical music.

0:22.2

I'll say, well, I'm going to listen to Cybelius's first symphony.

0:25.2

What should I listen for in the symphony?

0:27.2

It's remarkably deep.

0:28.7

You could almost say empathetic.

0:30.2

It just understands the stuff better, I think, than any human source you would find.

0:34.4

A number of people are going out today saying we're on the verge of a

0:38.1

great job displacement. I do not expect huge job displacement. There will be an enormous number of new

0:43.5

jobs incorporating AI into the routines of established institutions and also building out new institutions.

0:50.4

Those new efforts will be a little slow. And in the meantime, a lot of employers will be somewhat skittish about hiring more people.

0:57.2

He said by 2030 AI could start to fundamentally challenge what it means to be human and cause an identity crisis.

1:03.8

I think it will change religion. Some people will start to regard the AIs as oracles.

1:09.1

In some cases, even gods were in for some pretty big shock.

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