Listen now | This year, I recorded 30 conversations on AI, technology, geopolitics, and the economy.

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more   Exponential View by Azeem Azh… 🔮 The best of my 2025 conver… 0:00 21:31   Listen now   🔮 The best of my 2025 conversations: Kevin Kelly, Tyler Cowen, Steve Hsu, Dan Wang, Matthew Prince & others Azeem Azhar and Chantal Smith Dec 26   READ IN APP   This year, I recorded 30 conversations on AI, technology, geopolitics, and the economy. What follows is a 20-minute edit, a way in. If you only had 20 minutes to orient on key ideas that were top of mind in 2025 and will hold as we step into the new year, these are the ideas I’d start with: Watch on YouTube Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Jump to the key ideas Part 1 - AI as a general purpose tech 2:27: Why this matters 3:06: Kevin Weil: The test for a startup’s longevity 4:01: Matthew Prince: The “Socialist” pricing debate 4:45: Tyler Cowen: This will stifle the AI boom 7:42: Nicholas Thompson: The “NBA-ification” of journalism 8:13: Kevin Kelly: From utopia to protopia Part 2 - How work is changing 10:13: An evolving labor market 10:45: Steve Hsu: The future of education 11:27: Thomas Dohmke: The inspectability turning point 12:09: Ben Zweig: The new role for entry-level workers 13:16: Ben Zweig: The eroding signal of higher education Part 3 - The physical world, compute, and energy 14:05: Setting the stakes 14:51: Greg Jackson: “We’re half way across the road. We have to get across as fast as we can.” 15:27: Greg Jackson: Building a “show, don’t tell” company 16:12: Dan Wang: The physical reality of AI Part 4 - The changing US-China landscape 16:57: A new era 18:09: Dan Wang: The West’s hidden tech gap 18:38: Jordan Schneider: The two types of accelerationism 19:38: Jordan Schneider: What the US can learn from China Go deeper into the full conversations Kevin Weil - OpenAI CPO on what’s coming next in AI Matthew Prince - Inside the collapse of the internet economy Tyler Cowen - How AI will reorder economies, schools, and spirituality Nick Thompson - AI and the future of media Kevin Kelly - The handoff to “bots” Steve Hsu - The difference between early and late AI adopters Ben Zweig - Where did all the entry-level jobs go? Thomas Dohmke - What AI means for developer salaries, SaaS, and more Greg Jackson - The future of clean energy Dan Wang - Why China builds while America debates Jordan Schneider - Inside the US–China decoupling 🔔 Subscribe on YouTube for every video, including the ones we don’t publish here. Give a gift subscription   Like Comment Restack   © 2025 EPIIPLUS1 Ltd Copyright © 2023 EPIIPLUS1 Ltd, All rights reserved Unsubscribe