Episode · EconTalk · 2025-01-27
Books mentioned on Why AI Is Good for Humans (with Reid Hoffman)
Should we worry about the human future in a world of AI? Reid Hoffman is unafraid and even optimistic.
Russ Roberts discussed THE ALLIANCE by Reid Hoffman and others and Superagency by Reid Hoffman and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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THE ALLIANCE
THE ALLIANCE by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh, and Miguel Marqués Muñoz is a business book that reframes the employer-employee relationship around the concept of tours of duty in the modern startup era.
Discussed“He was last year in long time ago August of 2014 alongside Ben Koka discussing LinkedIn in their book The Alliance”
Where to get it
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Superagency
Discussed“our topic for today is re's new book with Greg biato a super agency what could possibly go right with our AI future”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Impromptu
“and you know there's also the earlier book impromptu which is a show that it's amplification intelligence and you know writing a book very quickly on education journalism and all the rest of that is to say it's”