EconTalk · Russ Roberts
The Past and Future of AI (with Dwarkesh Patel)
April 28, 2025·1 hr 37 min·5 clips
Patel argues AI's power lies in billions of digital minds that can copy, merge, and share states instantly.
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For anyone who follows AI closely and wants to know what still unsettles even the careful optimists.
Russ Roberts has spent decades in conversation with economists and scientists, and he is not easily unsettled. So when he says The Scaling Era -- Dwarkesh Patel's oral history of AI from 2019 to 2025, written with Gavin Leach -- left him, for the first time, a little scared, it…
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You have heard the smart-assistant pitch. Dwarkesh Patel makes the argument that should come after it.
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