What This Week Revealed About Power
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Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.
New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the first episode of the week from ProfG Media, where we break down what mattered and what it all means. I'm George Hahn and it's Friday, May 15th. This week the story was about the trade-offs nobody wants to admit. AI is making companies more efficient, but potentially making workers less valuable.
Inflation is rising again just as Americans are running out of patience. And with Trump and Xi Jinping's summit underway, longtime China analysts are starting to wonder whether the balance of power has quietly shifted. Let's get into it. For the last two years, the conversation around AI has focused on one question Will AI replace workers? This week, Silicon Valley started asking something else.
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