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ChinaTalk: Tyler Cowen on AI and China

Jordan Schneider
Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 11:13 AM

The latest episode of ChinaTalk.

Published by The Lawfare Institute
in Cooperation With
Brookings

Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution makes his ChinaTalk debut!

  • How AI is going to change art, education, politics and human relationships;
  • Why Tyler tried to write a book to explain America to the PRC;
  • How babies born in 2023 will see their educations changed by AI;
  • Playing chess against the computer and creativity in the AI era;
  • Religion, American antisemitism, and the movie Her;
  • Writing a book about America for Chinese people;
  • Why China is one of the hardest countries to predict.

Click here to listen to ChinaTalk in your favorite podcast app.

Outro Music: Beethoven X, an AI-assisted version of Beethoven's unfinished 10th symphony

For more context: smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-artificial-intelligence-completed-beethovens-unfinished-10th-symphony-180978753/

Image by midjourney seeded with a photo of Tyler.

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Jordan Schneider is the host of the ChinaTalk podcast and newsletter. He previously worked at Kwai, Bridgewater and the Eurasia Group. His Chinese landscape paintings "show promise."