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Remaining Realistic and Optimistic About the Promise of the Future, With Jim Pethokoukis
Innovation Files: Where Tech Meets Public Policy
English - June 10, 2024 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBTechnology Government technology innovation policy economics think tank government regulation law congress Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Embracing Innovation is the Ultimate Key to Tackling Climate Change, With Robin Gaster
The future will be much improved if society fights the fear of technology. Rob and Jackie sat down with Jim Pethokoukis, Senior Fellow and DeWitt Wallace Chair at the American Enterprise Institute, to discuss how the sci-fi fantasy of the future isn’t as far off as we think.
MentionedJames Pethokoukis. The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised, (Center Street, 2023).Robert D. Atkinson and David Moschella. Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths about Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).RelatedRobert D. Atkinson, Doug Brake, Daniel Castro, Colin Cunliff, Joe Kennedy, Michael McLaughlin, Alan McQuinn, and Joshua New, “A Policymaker’s Guide to the “Techlash” —What It Is and Why It’s a Threat to Growth and Progress,” (ITIF, October 2019)Hodan Omaar, “No, We Aren’t in an Oppenheimer Moment for AI,” (ITIF, July 2023)