Abundance

Intelligence Isn't Power

The Ezra Klein Show, 9 October 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 50 min 56 sec in.

Ezra Klein briefly invokes his own book while arguing that adding AI intelligence does not overcome non-intelligence rate limiters: we already know how to build faster trains but don't, because of politics and opposition rather than a shortage of intelligence — and AI would not automatically resolve those obstacles.

Listen to this episode ↗︎