Tyler Cowen on Why AI Hasn't Changed the World Yet
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.4 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In many respects, AI technology is already mind-blowing, and can perform many tasks far better than the average person. And yet by and large, its impact has been hard to detect. We haven't seen some huge labor displacement, for example. There's nothing dramatic yet happening in the productivity data. So when will the impact really start to be felt? On this episode, we speak with Tyler Cowen, a professor at George Mason University and the co-author of the famed econ blog Marginal Revolution. He's also the host of the Conversations with Tyler podcast. We talk about when we'll really start feeling AIs impact, as well as other topics, like food, music, and the general state of discourse.
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| 0:00.0 | You're being sold an AI future where you're obsolete or irrelevant. |
| 0:04.0 | That vision is wrong. |
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| 0:12.0 | American workers are our nation's greatest strength. |
| 0:16.0 | AI shouldn't eliminate them. It should elevate them. |
| 0:19.0 | Palantir is here to tell their stories. From factories |
| 0:23.0 | to hospitals, AI is freeing people from drudgery, letting them do what humans do best. Create, solve, |
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