Research area
Analysis of artificial intelligence, its economic effects, institutional implications, and governance challenges
In the August 19, 2026, episode of the Century of Plenty Podcast, Sven Smit, Chris Bradley, Nick Leung, and Marc Canal argue that achieving an 8.5x global economy is constrained by cultural mindsets and regulatory friction rather than physical limits.
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In the August 18, 2026 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, guest Alvin Graylin argues that the US-China artificial intelligence race is fundamentally mischaracterized as a zero-sum competition.
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Explore how GPT-4 access improved consulting output quality and speed on some tasks while reducing correctness on others in a field experiment.
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On July 22, 2026, FoundMyFitness podcast guest Derya Unutmaz argued that AI could accelerate medicine enough to extend healthy life substantially.
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On August 11, 2026, the Dwarkesh Podcast featured Ryan Greenblatt's conditional case that human-level systems trained for verifiable AI R&D could initiate rapid recursive improvement.
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The August 5, 2026 episode of The Cognitive Revolution features Zvi Mowshowitz analyzing recent frontier model misbehavior as ordinary alignment failure compounded by operator negligence.
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The March 7, 2026 episode of TFTC features Matt Corallo arguing that agentic commerce creates a rare opening for Bitcoin payments because incumbent payment systems must rebuild for AI-driven transactions.
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The March 7, 2026 episode of the Peter H. Diamandis Podcast features Andrew Yang arguing that AI-driven job loss is outrunning political adaptation and destabilizing the social contract.
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The March 6, 2026 episode of The Last Trade features James Camp arguing that Bitcoin’s path through AI will likely run first through stablecoin rails and institutionally shaped payment infrastructure.
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The February 24, 2026 episode of The Ezra Klein Show features Jack Clark examining how AI “agents” that can write and run code are rapidly changing software development and white-collar work.
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The February 22, 2026 episode of the Wes Roth Podcast features Stephen Wolfram outlining reality as the output of deep, irreducible computation.
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The February 22, 2026 episode of the Jordi Visser Podcast features Jordi arguing that artificial intelligence is structurally repricing growth assets across public and private markets.
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