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377: AI and Wicked Problems

Jun 21, 202456 minEp. 377
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Episode description

Arnold Kling discusses his recent article in Reason magazine, “Not Even Artificial Intelligence Can Make Central Planning Work.”

Topics include:

  • Why central planning is impossible
  • The importance of prices
  • What is AI good for?
  • Will AI know us better than we know ourselves?
  • What markets will AI disrupt?
  • Social media and tribal gang-sign flashing
  • The myopia of the revanchist right

Links:

Not Even Artificial Intelligence Can Make Central Planning Work

David Brin’s Transparent Society Revisited

Mir McLuhanism

The Revanchist Right

Tech Policy Podcast 368: How the Government Gets Your Data

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