Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2026-08-04
Books mentioned on The A.I. Revolt Is Here | The Ezra Klein Show
Jasmine Sun recommended The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut, The Technology Trap by Carl Benedikt Frey, and The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The MANIAC
Recommended“Ooh, um so I think the first one is really relevant to this conversation, which is uh Ben Yemin Labatut's The Maniac, um which includes a sort of lightly fictionalized biography of John von Neumann, the story of AlphaGo.”
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The Technology Trap
Recommended“My second book is The Technology Trap from Carl Benedikt Frey, which I think is very much about how people's attitudes towards technology and automation depend on to what extent the benefits, the economic growth, is shared”
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The Art of Gathering
Recommended“And then finally, Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering, cuz I do think that the relational stuff is going to become a lot more important than it always was, and I do think that book has helped me become a better host.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Abundance
“So, uh I wrote Abundance uh last year with Derek Thompson or published it. And one thing I've heard been asked by a lot of people like, "What is the Abundance take on a data center?"”