377: AI and Wicked Problems

Tech Policy Podcast

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

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