Freakonomics Radio
Writers, designers, actors, coders, musicians, thinkers — they’re all worried about being replaced by machines. But what if the A.I.s are actually here to help? (Part one of a two-part series.)
- SOURCES:
- Sean Astin, actor, president of SAG-AFTRA.
- Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired.
- Ethan Mollick, associate professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Eline Van der Velden, founder and C.E.O. of Particle6.
- RESOURCES:
- Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI, by Ethan Mollick (2026).
- “Apocalypse Now and Then,” by Arundhati Roy (Equator, 2026).
- “Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Creativity and Diversity: An Empirical Study of Large Language Model-Generated Product Ideas,” by Christian Terwiesch, Lennart Meincke, Karan Girotra, Ethan Mollick, Gideon Nave, and Karl Ulrich (Production and Operations Management, 2026).
- “Quiet, My Exoself,” by Kevin Kelly (KK, 2026).
- Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI, by Ethan Mollick (2024).
- “The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development,” by Michael Kremer (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993).
- EXTRAS:
- “How to Poison the A.I. Machine,” by Freakonomics Radio (2025).
- “The Curious, Brilliant, Vanishing Mr. Feynman,” series by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
- “How to Think About A.I.,” series by Freakonomics Radio (2023).
- “103 Pieces of Advice That May or May Not Work,” by Freakonomics Radio (2022).
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