✨ My interview with economist Tyler Cowen on the Age of AI (and more)

On this episode of Faster Please!—The Podcast, I am joined (again) by Tyler Cowen. Tyler is an economics professor at George Mason University and co-founder of the economics blog Marginal Revolution. He is an opinion writer for The Free Press and the author of several books, including The Great Stagnation, Average Is Over, and Stubborn Attachments.

During our conversation, Tyler and I discuss AI risk, the extent to which public pushback could slow AI progress and economic growth, different forecasts for AI development and where Tyler stands, and what the technology could mean long term for the American economy.

In This Episode:

* The Effect of AI Industry Pushback (0:41)

* Different AI perspectives (7:37)

* The Fear of AI (12:37)

* Economic Growth: (17:32)

* The Future of Jobs (23:06)

* AI on a Global Stage (26:50)

A lightly edited transcript of our conversation will appear in my Week in Review issue on Saturday. (Another option is using the Substack auto transcript function.)

But here are some of the many highlights from the chat:

✨ On potential catastrophic harms from AI…