Hubris, Humility, and the AI Revolution (with Walter Isaacson)
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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 econal.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. It is october fifteenth, twenty twenty six, and my guest is author Walter Isaacson. He has written numerous books, including celebrated biographies of Da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Elon Musk, and others. His book on the digital revolution, The Innovators, has a new edition out.
And he has just released a new podcast series, The Builders. Where he interviews innovators of people on the front line. Of the AI revolution. Elon Musk, Dario and Danielle Amadei. Peter Thiel, Parmer Lucky, Alex Carp, and others.
I want to start Uh Walter, welcome to Econ Talk. Thank you so much. Good to be here. Uh you write that your book, The Innovators, chronicles how the digital revolution was created not only by advances in machine intelligence.
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