# Andrew Mcafee

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We Need to Stop Panicking About AI (with Andrew McAfee and Nils Gilman)

Every week brings a new warning about AI. It will take our jobs, drain our reservoirs, cook the planet. The forecasts come from serious people. They also rhyme with forecasts we've heard before, about every powerful new technology of the last century. In this episode, MIT economist Andrew McAfee a…

✨💪 AI, jobs, and productivity: My chat with economist Erik Brynjolfsson

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Will artificial intelligence displace workers or make them more valuable? Probably plenty of both. But how much in either direction, and how fast will all this change happen? Today on Faster, Please!—The Podcast, I …

Are droids taking our jobs? - Andrew McAfee

Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating -- jobs that once required a human. So what will we humans do for work? Andrew McAfee walks through recent labor data to say: We ain't seen nothing yet. But then he steps back to look at big history, an…

Andrew McAfee on AI, Jobs, and ‘Permissionless Innovation’

What if the biggest risk isn’t too much technological progress—but too little? In this episode of the Century of Plenty podcast, Chris Bradley and Marc Canal speak with MIT’s Andrew McAfee about technological progress, AI, inequality, and the prospects for continued growth. McAfee reflects on AI’s…

The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced Models

Ed Zitron, Roman Yampolskiy, Nate Soares and Andrew McAfee discuss the risk of AI. This debate brings together four distinct voices at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution: Ed Zitron - A prominent tech critic and CEO of EZPRAndrew McAfee - Principal research scientist at MIT and…

191 The Pestilence of AI Data Centers with Andrew McAfee

AI data centers may affect far more than the land they occupy. In this excerpt from Episode 186, electrosentient electrician Andrew McAfee discusses harmonics, dirty power, water use, neighborhood impacts, and the larger question of what this technological expansion may mean for humanity. For the f…

Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income? (Update)

A lot of jobs in the modern economy don’t pay a living wage, and some of those jobs may be wiped out by new technologies. So what’s to be done? We revisit an episode from 2016 for a potential solution.  SOURCES: Erik Brynjolfsson, professor of economics at Stanford University. Evelyn Forget, profe…

#217 Is Your House Wiring Making You Sick? | Andrew McAfee on EMFs, Grounding & Sleep

Licensed electrician Andrew McAfee explains how home wiring, magnetic fields, and ground current can wreck sleep, mood, and kids’ health — and why grounding products can make it worse.Measure first. Fix the wiring. Then worry about supplements.Andrew went from principal French horn with the North C…

Understanding AI: How It Learns, Takes Action, and Why Control Matters

Two people can say they use AI and mean very different things. One is writing an email. Another is handing a system the tools to get work done. That difference matters. In this episode of Thriving in Ambiguity, I break down how AI learns, how it moves from answering questions to taking action, and…

Strategy Summit 2026: Who's Going to Succeed with AI?

Artificial intelligence is advancing quickly, but its real impact on productivity, jobs, and competitive advantage is still uncertain. In this four-part special series, we'll share conversations from the recent HBR Strategy Summit to help you get ahead. In this episode, Andrew McAfee, principal res…