377: AI and Wicked Problems

Arnold Kling discusses his recent article in Reason magazine, “Not Even Artificial Intelligence Can Make Central Planning Work.” Topics include: - Why central planning is impossible - The importance of prices - What is AI good for? - Will AI know us better than we know ourselves? - What markets will AI disrupt? - Social media and tribal gang-sign flashing - The myopia of the revanchist right Links: Not Even Artificial Intelligence Can Make Central Planning Work (https://tinyurl.com/ukwyj2du) David Brin’s Transparent Society Revisited (https://tinyurl.com/yh9cs3s4) Mir McLuhanism (https://tinyurl.com/3w3twpsx) The Revanchist Right (https://tinyurl.com/m48map9z) Tech Policy Podcast 368: How the Government Gets Your Data (https://tinyurl.com/2r6kwvw2)