Dean Ball on the Past, Present, and Future of AI

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  Welcome to Macro Musings,

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  where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past, present and future.

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  I am your host, David Beckwourth,

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  a senior research fellow at the Merketis center at George Mason University.

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  And I'm glad you decided to join us.

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  Our guest today is Dean Ball.

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  Dean is a research fellow and a colleague of mine here at the Mercatus center,

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  where he works on artificial intelligence, emerging technology, and the future of governance.

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  Dean joins us today to discuss recent developments in AI policy,

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  debates surrounding AI and the future of AI.

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  Dean, welcome to the show.

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  Thanks so much for having me.

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  It's great to have you on.

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  It's always fun to talk AI.

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  It's current events and sometimes its implications moving forward.

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  Now, you're part of the program here that works on AI.

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  Before we get into all that,

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  tell us about how you became a participant, an active participant in this space.

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  Yeah, it's a bit of a funny story because I don't have a direct background in it professionally.

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  I spent most of my career at think tanks doing sort of mostly unrelated things.

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