Exploring Prosperity- Challenging Pessimism in the US
by Bob Dewey
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College Is Getting Riskier. Can AI Help Students Choose Their Future?
College Is Getting Riskier. Can AI Help Students Choose Their Future?
About this podcast
Challenge Pessimism. Explore the Complexity of Progress.
Headlines and survey results scream pessimism, but is it warranted?
Join us on Exploring Prosperity as we delve into the complexities of human progress with leading thinkers across markets, economics, history, philosophy, and more.
Discover how economic and societal factors shape our world, and gain a deeper understanding of the drivers of individual and societal prosperity and a fulfilling life. Our in-depth conversations may leave you empowered and optimistic about the future and equipped with insights to navigate the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Bob Dewey brings his expertise in investing and his network in the investment community and beyond to address the big issues of the day and whether we can solve problems faster than they grow.
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Episodes
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- College Is Getting Riskier. Can AI Help Students Choose Their Future? · 30 minFor generations, college was a reliable path to a better career. But as tuition costs rise, job requirements change, and AI reshapes the workplace, that assumption is becoming…
- What Is AI Doing to Jobs? The Data We Need Isn't Being Collected-Former BLS Commissioner Erica Groshen · 47 minAI is already prompting dramatic predictions about jobs and big policy proposals in response. But we still know remarkably little about what AI is actually doing to the economy…
- AI Can Solve Math. But Can It Ask a Good Question? | Steven Strogatz · 1 h 5 minCan AI solve mathematics without understanding it? And if machines become better than humans at finding answers, who will come up with the questions?I traveled to Cornell…
- AI Extinction Is the Wrong Test · 8 minLast week, Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment science at Anthropic, said he believes artificial intelligence has a greater than 10 percent chance of killing every human within…
- Bitcoin Treasury Companies: The Rise of Digital Credit | Tim Kotzman · 1 h 18 minBitcoin treasury companies were easy to launch when Bitcoin was rising. Then the market turned and the industry had to learn.Tim Kotzman has had a front-row seat to that process…
- What Happens to Lawyers When AI Gets This Good? · 54 minArtificial intelligence is already changing the practice of law. The question is no longer whether lawyers will use AI, but what happens to the legal profession when they…
- Where Disciplines Intersect: Free Will, AI, Economics, and Prosperity · 1 h 4 minCan free will exist in a deterministic universe? What does that imply for artificial intelligence, capitalism, scientific progress, and the future of prosperity?In this…
- The AI Masterclass: How ChatGPT and Large Language Models Really Work · 35 minArtificial intelligence is advancing faster than almost any technology in history, yet surprisingly few people understand what large language models are actually doing behind the…
- What If We Solved the Wrong Problem in Education? · 8 minEducation was never designed to fail students. It was designed to solve one of humanity’s greatest challenges: how to provide education at scale to millions of people.The factory…
- The AI Paradox: More Information, Less Shared Reality · 42 minToday's guest is Lyn Alden, one of the world's leading macroeconomic analysts and the author of Broken Money and The Stillguard Incident.We explore one of the defining questions…
- The Hidden Challenge of Bringing Crypto to Wall Street · 50 minWhat does it take for one of the world's largest financial institutions to adopt an entirely new technology?Morgan Stanley's Head of Digital Asset Strategy, Amy Oldenburg, joins…
- What Happens When Everyone Has Institutional Investing Tools? · 27 minArtificial intelligence is rapidly transforming investing, wealth management, and the global economy — but what happens to human judgment when information becomes instantly…
- Can AI Really Go Rogue? Why Today’s AI Fears May Be Overstated · 8 minArtificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, but how realistic are the fears about rogue AI, AGI, and machines turning against humanity?In this conversation, a clip from my…
- Money Is Political | Bitcoin, AI & the Future of Markets · 54 minJeff Park joined usfor a deep discussion on Bitcoin, AI, Federal Reserve policy, financial markets, volatility, and the future of the global monetary system.Jeff explains why…
- Are We Running Out of Valuable Problems to Solve? · 7 minArtificial intelligence is triggering widespread fear about the future of work, white-collar employment, and the long-term value of highly educated workers. After Citadel founder…
- AI Is Rewiring Markets, Energy & Bitcoin | Matthew Sigel · 46 minWhy are stocks hitting new highs during war and geopolitical instability? Why are Bitcoin miners suddenly becoming AI infrastructure companies? And could sovereign nations…
- Is Digital Security Ready for What’s Coming? (Zach Herbert) · 57 minAI is changing cybersecurity—and it may be increasing the scale of digital threats beyond what banks, platforms, and institutions can manage. In this video, I break down how…
- Credit Stress Is Back: What Happens When Markets Stop Clearing? · 1 h 0 minCredit stress is beginning to reappear in parts of the economy—especially in private credit markets where institutional capital has surged in recent years.In this episode of…
- What AI Can Actually Do — And What It Can’t · 1 h 0 minArtificial intelligence is changing finance, healthcare, education, and the future of work — but what is it actually doing under the hood?In this conversation, I sit down with…
- Are We Getting Weaker? Hard Money, Harder Virtues · 1 h 6 minAre we actually progressing—or quietly getting weaker?In this conversation, I sit down with Aleks Svetski, author of The Bushido of Bitcoin, to explore a deeper question that…
