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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show is a long-form interview and conversation podcast hosted by journalist Ezra Klein. Each episode digs into one big question — from climate policy and the logic of markets to the future of the Republican Party, psychedelics and consciousness, the food system, and what science fiction reveals about the present. Klein talks with thinkers, writers, scientists and policymakers to unpack the ideas shaping politics, culture and everyday life. The show is produced as part of The New York Times podcast network.

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Is It Wrong to Love a Chatbot? Oct 14, 2026 4604 Roughly half of American adults are using chatbots. Nearly one in five U.S. adults has chatted with an A.I. that simulates a romantic partner. And some children now struggle to distinguish between talking to chatbots and humans.What does this mean for the future of our relationships? Turkle has been studying relationships between humans and machines since the 1970s, around the dawn of the personal

What if A.I. Is Just a ‘Normal Technology’? Oct 9, 2026 3781 At the center of the country’s debates over artificial intelligence is a simple but hard question: What kind of technology is this?Is A.I. a kind of “alien mind”? Are we unleashing a new species on the planet, one that will transform human society so completely that historical analogies to past technologies simply don’t hold? Or is A.I. more normal than that?Arvind Narayanan is a professor of comp

‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. Oct 7, 2026 4375 Last week, David Robinson resigned from OpenAI. He’d been in charge of writing the safety reports for new models and came to believe that OpenAI and the broader artificial intelligence industry lack the safety culture necessary to protect the world from what they’re building.Robinson has an unusual background for an A.I. frontier lab staffer. He’s a Rhodes scholar and Yale Law graduate, he founded

Is the World Getting Uglier? Oct 2, 2026 4171 President Trump and the modern right have a theory of beauty. You see it in Trump’s gilded Oval Office, his imagined arch and his executive order requiring classical and traditional styles for certain federal buildings. This isn’t my theory of beauty, but it is a theory. And it’s a response, in part, to something that a lot of people have been feeling, and not just on the right: that the modern wo

Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I. Sep 29, 2026 4705 Bill Gates thinks A.I. alarmism hasn’t gone far enough. He believes the years ahead will be marred by catastrophic cyberattacks, bio-terrorism and mass job loss unless the government acts, because he thinks the idea that the A.I. industry can just self-regulate is “insane.” I was struck in the conversation by how genuinely afraid Gates seemed to be that we are not ready for the consequences of wh

What Does Abdul El-Sayed Believe? Sep 25, 2026 5895 Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, has been one of the most argued-over candidates this election cycle. If he wins, he’d be the first-ever Muslim senator, and he’s faced a torrent of attacks about his faith. The race has also become a proving ground for a lot of questions about the Democratic Party and its future: What should U.S. policy toward Israel and the Palest

Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far Sep 23, 2026 6706 Jensen Huang might just be the single most influential person in artificial intelligence today.Huang is the chief executive of Nvidia, the company that designs nearly all the chips and infrastructure that the rest of the industry relies on. This has made Nvidia the most valuable company in the world and has made Huang incredibly influential in the Trump administration.And unlike many of the leader

About the Coming Paywall Oct 2, 2024 251 In a couple weeks, the archives of our show will only be available to subscribers. Here’s why that’s happening and what to expect. To learn more, go to nytimes.com/podcasts. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcas

Coming Soon: The Ezra Klein Show Jan 13, 2021 163 Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party? What do psychedelics teach us about consciousness? What does sci-fi understand about our present that we miss? Can our

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