Tyler Cowen on the Risks and Impact of Artificial Intelligence

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the benefits and dangers of artificial intelligence. Cowen argues that the worriers--those who think that artificial intelligence will destroy mankind--need to make a more convincing case for their concerns. He also believes that the worriers are too willing to reduce freedom and empower the state in the name of reducing a risk that is far from certain. Along the way, Cowen and Roberts discuss how AI might change various parts of the economy and the job market.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is April 19, 2023 and my guest is Tyler Cowan of George Mason University.
0:43.4	With Alex Tabaraki blogs at Margin Revolution, his podcast is Conversations with Tyler.
0:49.4	This is his 17th appearance on the program.
0:51.7	He was last year in August of 2022.
0:54.5	He's been talking about his book with Daniel Gross, titled Talent.
0:57.6	Today we're going to talk about artificial intelligence.
1:00.3	This is maybe the ninth episode on econtalk about the topic.
1:04.2	I think the first one was December of 2014 with Nicholas Postram.
1:09.3	This may be the last one for a while or not.
1:11.4	It is perhaps the most interesting development of our time.
1:15.4	Tyler is a great person to pull a lot of this together as well as to provide a more optimistic
1:20.0	perspective relative to some of our recent guests.
1:22.3	Tyler, welcome back to econtalk.
1:24.0	We're going to be to be here, Russ.
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