About this episode

Derek Thompson joins Chris Hayes to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on white collar workers and the influence of billionaires in this context.

The unified class project of billionaires is doing to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers. And artificial intelligence is only exacerbating this trend. Derek Thompson is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, co-author of “Abundance,” and has written extensively about the political power of the wealthy. He joins Chris Hayes to kick off our new special miniseries, The AI End Game: Power, Profit and Progress.

People in this episode

Host: Chris Hayes

Guest: Derek Thompson

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• billionaires
• white collar workers
• globalization
• neoliberalism
• political power

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• billionaires
• white collar workers
• globalization
• neoliberalism
• political power
• Derek Thompson

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Atlantic

Books & works: Abundance

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