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“In the Economist interview, he said, it's not like we can stop AI right now. There's no red button that says stop. Actually, of course there is, right? Generative AI on its current model requires enormous amount of build out of compute infrastructure that actually right now is being slowed down to the point of even stopping through hundreds of moratoria across the country. So it's actually not true that there's inevitability to the world that he's imagining.” — Quinn Slobodian, The Ezra Klein Show
Quinn Slobodian · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I was thinking about how uncorrelated attention and performance is right now. … There is almost no connection between who are the candidates who are everywhere on social media and my feeds and who are the candidates who are doing particularly well or poorly, at least in polls.” — Ezra Klein, The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein · 27 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The first thing I always tell people is that whenever you're looking at a series of polls in a Senate race or Senate races, plural, always ask yourself, what if they're off by three or four points in the same direction in every race?” — Nate Silver, The Ezra Klein Show
Nate Silver · 27 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think it's the big difference between news seekers and news receivers. I think we used to live in a world where you spent time with the news and it was a specific time. You sat down at the breakfast table and you read a newspaper, you watched the evening news… And I just think that the news receiver means I didn't sit down to find something out. Information just washed over me and there was no mechanism to verify it. … And so they wake up with an opinion without any idea of how it was formed.” — Sarah Longwell, The Ezra Klein Show
Sarah Longwell · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I pay about a buck a month to my phone operator to screen out spoof phone calls that are essentially robocalls. And that's what's going to happen. And we're going to call that GDP. Those additional costs.” — Azeem Azhar, The Ezra Klein Show
Azeem Azhar · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“In a weird way, societies require friction. And when you take away frictions, even frictions that you didn't realize existed, all of a sudden it has consequences. … blithely removing all of them is kind of creating in tech parlance almost a denial of service attack on modernity.” — Paul Kedrosky, The Ezra Klein Show
Paul Kedrosky · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The Article of Faith, the West Coast ideology on this stuff is technology always creates more jobs than it destroys. And so it becomes just a thing that people repeat, like a mantra that they hope will become true. And the reality is we've never seen a general purpose technology that had such broad applicability, was adopted so quickly, and was repricing labor at the same time.” — Paul Kedrosky, The Ezra Klein Show
Paul Kedrosky · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think we're de-skilling ourselves from being able to deal with people. So two things happen. On the one hand, people start to see the chatbots more like people. But I think maybe more significantly, people start to be disappointed with people when they don't behave like chatbots.” — Sherry Turkle, The Ezra Klein Show
Sherry Turkle · 14 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Social media came for our attention and chatbots come for our capacity for attachment.” — Sherry Turkle, The Ezra Klein Show
Sherry Turkle · 14 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The original sin of these objects is they speak in the first person and they say they care about you. And that's how they hook you.” — Sherry Turkle, The Ezra Klein Show
Sherry Turkle · 14 Oct 2026 Listen →
“AI is turning a lot of knowledge workers into managers of AI agents. And the thing about being a manager is it's kind of a shitty experience because you're responsible for other people's mistakes. You don't get to practice the craft that you trained for. … With AI, you don't get any of those benefits. You have to manage this agent and be responsible for its mistakes, but you don't get to practice the craft.” — Arvind Narayanan, The Ezra Klein Show
Arvind Narayanan · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It turns out the limiting speed is not the trains themselves. It's the tracks that are too curved and the signaling infrastructure that is centuries old. … Most of the time, AI is the trains. It's not the track. So AI is accelerating a part of the process that was never the bottleneck to begin with.” — Arvind Narayanan, The Ezra Klein Show
Arvind Narayanan · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Ezra Klein Show is hosted by Ezra Klein , Rogé Karma , Ross Douthat , Jane Coaston , Lydia Polgreen , Lulu Garcia-Navarro , Rollin Hu , David Wallace-Wells , Gilbert Cruz and Anna Martin .

Recent Episodes

  1. 30 Oct 2026

    Elon Musk’s Endgame

    With Quinn Slobodian

  2. 27 Oct 2026

    Nate Silver Predicts a ‘Momentous’ Midterm

    With Nate Silver

  3. 23 Oct 2026

    What Hundreds of Focus Groups With Trump Voters Revealed

    With Sarah Longwell

  4. 20 Oct 2026

    Why You Can’t Capitulate to Trump

    With Chrystia Freeland

  5. 16 Oct 2026

    Is There an A.I. Bubble? A Debate.

    With Paul Kedrosky and Azeem Azhar

  6. 14 Oct 2026

    Is It a Relationship if No One’s on the Other Side?

    With Sherry Turkle

  7. 9 Oct 2026

    Intelligence Isn't Power

    With Arvind Narayanan

  8. 7 Oct 2026

    ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.

    With David Robinson

  9. 2 Oct 2026

    Is the World Getting Uglier?

    With Debbie Millman and Max Brown

  10. 29 Sep 2026

    Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I.

    With Bill Gates

  11. 25 Sep 2026

    What Does Abdul El-Sayed Believe?

    With Abdul El-Sayed

  12. 23 Sep 2026

    Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far

    With Jensen Huang

Guests

Aaron Retica (9 episodes), Adam Tooze (5 episodes), Claire Gordon (5 episodes), Fareed Zakaria (5 episodes), Tressie McMillan Cottom (4 episodes), Ta-Nehisi Coates (4 episodes), Paul Krugman (4 episodes), George Saunders (4 episodes), Nicole Hemmer (4 episodes), Jerusalem Demsas (4 episodes), Chris Hayes (4 episodes), Sheila Liming (3 episodes), and 432 more.