# David Deming

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September 13 2026 - Bible in a Year - Week 51

In this week’s message, we explore why Jesus so often taught through parables—earthly stories with heavenly meaning that invite us not simply to hear, but to wrestle with God’s truth. Through the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son, we discover that these stories challenge our assumptions, …

Bans or Better Assignments? | Innovation Pulse

In this complete 10:19 Innovation Pulse for September 5–11, 2026:   1. Harvard's David Deming Wants Students to Show Their Thinking. 2. Texas A&M Finds the Instructional Design Behind Better AI Role-Play. 3. A Five-Level AI Scale Starts With the Assignment's Purpose. 4. Austin Community Colleg…

Gina Raimondo on what companies owe workers in the AI economy

David Deming's guest today is former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo. Secretary Raimondo grew up in Rhode Island, where her father worked at the Bulova watch factory in Providence until it closed down, leaving him unemployed in his mid-50s. Today, she is trying to…

Matthew Yglesias | An A.I. safety guide for normal people

How seriously should we take the risks of superintelligent A.I.? ⁠Matthew Yglesias⁠⁠ joins David Deming for an A.I. safety guide for normal people who are just paying attention. Matt is a journalist and founder of the widely read newsletter ⁠Slow Boring⁠, which he started in 2020 after leaving th…

Harvard Dean David Deming on AI and the Future of Harvard

This week, we’re joined by David Deming, top labor economist, blogger at the Forked Lightning Substack, and — since 2025 — Undergraduate Dean of Harvard College, to ask how the value of social skills will change in the age of thinking and talking machines. We start with his QJE paper “The Growing I…

Jason Furman | The price of ignoring Econ 101

 David's guest today is Jason Furman, an economist and professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, where they've been colleagues for the past several years. Before coming to Harvard, Jason had a distinguished career in government. He worked in the White House during the entire Obama administration, in…

Can A.I. get better at making itself better?

 Recursive self-improvement (R.S.I.) has gone from a nerdy, obscure concept to front-page news. That’s Bay Area slang for artificial intelligence using artificial intelligence to improve… artificial intelligence. Why does it have everyone so freaked out? And why is it linked so closely with fears o…

David Deming on the Future of Universities in the Age of AI

Yascha Mounk and David Deming discuss how artificial intelligence will transform research, teaching, and the economic foundations of higher education. David Deming is the Danoff Dean of Harvard College and an economist. He writes a Substack called Forked Lightning and hosts a podcast called The Co…

Can we control self-improving A.I.?

 What happens when A.I. starts improving itself faster than humans can keep up? The researchers building these models can't fully explain how they work. If those models begin designing their successors, the things we don't understand could get baked into each new generation. How do we keep control?…

Emily Oster on being wrong and changing your mind

 David's guest today is ⁠Emily Oster.⁠ Emily is an economist at Brown University, author of four New York Times bestselling books, and founder of the parenting information platform, ParentData. Here books ⁠Expecting Better⁠ and ⁠Cribsheet⁠, which looked at how to interpret research on topics like a…