About this episode
Sam Harris speaks with Vinod Khosla about the implications of AI on the economy and society.
Sam Harris speaks with Vinod Khosla about AI, economic disruption, and political risk. They discuss the prospect of mass job displacement, a trillion-dollar policy framework to redistribute AI's gains, the failure of the California wealth tax, the corporate capitulation to Trump, Elon Musk's embrace of white nationalist rhetoric, US-China competition, semiconductor dependence, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe .
People in this episode
Host: Sam Harris
Guest: Vinod Khosla
Topics covered
- AI
- economic disruption
- political risk
- job displacement
- wealth tax
- corporate politics
- semiconductor dependence
Keywords
- AI
- economic disruption
- job displacement
- wealth tax
- political risk
- semiconductors
- US-China competition
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: California, Trump, US-China
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