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Why AI Is Good for Humans (with Reid Hoffman)

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Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today's December twenty-sixth, twenty twenty four, and my guest is entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. Reed Hoffman, he is the co founder of LinkedIn, among many other Projects he was last year in long time ago, August of

Twenty fourteen. Alongside Ben Casnoka discussing LinkedIn in their book. The Alliance. Our topic for today is Reed's new book. with Greg Biotto super agency what could possibly go right

with our AI future read welcome back to Econ Talk. It's great to be here. It's been too long. Let's do the next one in a shorter time frame. Here, here. Uh this is a very interesting book. Uh I like the way you bounce back and forth between the world sphere of new technologies and the upside. uh what could possibly go right Uh, we don't hear so much about that. We hear a lot of fear because

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