Justified Posteriors: The Economics of AI Podcast
de Seth Benzell and Andrey Fradkin
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LSE Professor Sarah Bana on How AI is Changing Hiring, Academic…
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A podcast exploring the economics of AI and innovation by deeply engaging with the research.
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- LSE Professor Sarah Bana on How AI is Changing Hiring, Academic Publishing, and Religion · 1 h 0 minThis week we’re joined by Sarah Bana — a friend of the show and colleague from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, now a professor at the London School of Economics. She is a…
- The Economics of a Global AI Treaty and Recursive Self-Improvement (w/ Epoch and Stanford's Philip Trammell) · 1 h 8 minThis week we’re joined by Phil Trammell, economist at Stanford and senior researcher at Epoch AI, and co-author (with Chad Jones) of the “When GDP Misleads” paper we covered…
- Harvard Dean David Deming on AI and the Future of Harvard · 1 h 4 minThis week, we’re joined by David Deming, top labor economist, blogger at the Forked Lightning Substack, and — since 2025 — Undergraduate Dean of Harvard College, to ask how the…
- Daron Acemoglu on pro-worker AI and vibes based capital · 49 minWe’re honored to host Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor at MIT and 2024 Nobel laureate. Daron has spent a decade arguing that AI should be built to make human expertise more…
- Martin Beraja on AI-tocracy, the Benefits of Unclear Property Rights, and the Massive Potential of AI to Optimize Firms · 1 h 10 minThis week, we’re joined by Martin Beraja of UC Berkeley Haas, one of the most prolific macroeconomists working on AI. We start with his newest paper “Growth at the Resource…
- Does GDP Growth Mislead Us About Quality of Life? · 46 minIn this episode, we discuss “When GDP Misleads: Inferring Living Standards from the Value of a Statistical Life”, written by Stanford/Anthropic economist Chad Jones and…
- Is AI Replacing Programmers or Boosting Them? · 1 h 4 minJustified Posteriors reads “Writing Code vs. Shipping Code” by Mert Demirer, Leon Musolff, and Liyuan Yang In this week’s episode of Justified Posteriors, we update our beliefs…
- No AI Jobs Apocalypse (Yet) - and a Debt Problem (Now) | Martha Gimbel (Yale Budget Lab) · 1 h 16 minThis week we’re joined by Martha Gimbel, executive director and co-founder of The Budget Lab at Yale. Martha has worked just about everywhere economic policy gets made — the…
- Litigating the Pope's AI Encyclical with the Lawyers of Scaling Laws Pod · 1 h 15 minIn this episode of Justified Posteriors, we host Alan Rozenshtein and Kevin Frazier — the law-professor duo behind Lawfare’s Scaling Laws — to take two of the most-discussed AI…
- Ioana Marinescu on Insuring Workers for AI, Monopsony, and Philosophy · 1 h 19 minThis week we’re joined by Ioana Marinescu, labor economist at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice, former Principal Economist at the U.S…
- Kevin Bryan on Bottlenecks, AI in China, and What Economists Should Actually Be Working On · 1 h 37 minThis week we to with Kevin Bryan, Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School, author of the legendary economics blog A Fine Theorem, co-founder…
- Seb Krier on AGI, the Coasean Singularity, and EDM · 1 h 23 minSeb Krier on AGI, Scaffolding, and Coasean Bargaining at Scale In this episode of Justified Posteriors, we welcome Seb Krier — policy lead for AGI at Google DeepMind and…
- Avi Goldfarb on Prediction Machines, O-Ring Tasks, and How AI is Reshaping Economics · 1 h 20 minThis week, we’re joined by Avi Goldfarb, one of the leading economists of artificial intelligence and co-author of Prediction Machines. Avi has been thinking seriously about AI…
- The classic model that shows why AI exposure could increase wages · 1 h 3 minGet full access to Justified Posteriors at empiricrafting.substack.com/subscribe This week, instead of reviewing a recent paper on AI, we go back to a 1993 classic: Michael…
- The Most Important Philosophical Treatise of the 21st Century? · 1 h 27 minThis week, instead of reviewing an economics paper, we reviewed a work of philosophy—perhaps the most important one of this young millennium so far. Anthropic published its new…
- Alex Imas - Demand Collapse, Bargaining with Machines, and Behavioral AI Economics · 1 h 33 minUniversity of Chicago behavioral economist Alex Imas joins us for a conversation on AI, economic growth, behavioral economics, and the future of science. We discuss whether AI…
- The Economics of Book Slop · 1 h 7 minIn this episode, Seth and Andrey break down AI and the Quantity and Quality of Creative Products: Have LLMs Boosted Creation of Valuable Books? by Imke Reimers and Joel…
- Noah Smith on Blogging, AI Economics, and Elite Overproduction · 1 h 30 minWe sit down with prominent blogger and economist Noah Smith to dig into the disconnect between AI hype and current macroeconomic reality. The central puzzle: if a “god machine”…
- Basil Halperin: Leading Indicators for TAI, Conditions for the Singularity, and Tax Policy at the End of History · 1 h 29 minIn this week’s episode of Justified Posteriors, we interview TAI expert and friend of the show Basil Halperin of the University of Virginia. There Basil is doing some of the most…
- Can an AI Interview You Better Than a Human? · 1 h 0 minWe discuss “Voice in AI Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews” by Brian Jabarian and Luca Henkel. The paper examines a randomized experiment with call…
