Stephen Dubner, live on stage, mixes it up with outbound mayor London Breed, and asks economists whether A.I. can be “human-centered” and if Tang is a gateway drug. <ul><li>SOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://www.sf.gov/profile--london-breed">London Breed</a>, former mayor of San Francisco.</li><li><a href="https://economics.stanford.edu/people/erik-brynjolfsson">Erik Brynjolfsson</a>, professor of economics at Stanford University</li><li><a href="https://economics.wfu.edu/faculty-and-staff/koleman-strumpf/">Koleman Strumpf</a>, professor of economics at Wake Forest University</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>RESOURCES:<ul><li>"<a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/07/san-francisco-crime-rate-fell-to-23-year-low-in-2024/">SF crime rate at lowest point in more than 20 years, mayor says,</a>" by George Kelly (The San Francisco Standard, 2025)</li><li>"<a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/how-the-trump-whale-and-prediction-markets-beat-the-pollsters-in-2024-dd11ec4e">How the Trump Whale and Prediction Markets Beat the Pollsters in 2024,</a>" by Niall Ferguson and Manny Rincon-Cruz (Wall Street Journal, 2024)</li><li>"<a href="https://aidantr.github.io/files/AI_innovation.pdf">Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation,</a>" by Aidan Toner-Rodgers (MIT Department of Economics, 2024)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>EXTRAS:<ul><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-cities-still-so-expensive-ep-435/">Why Are Cities (Still) So Expensive?</a>" by Freakonomics Radio (2020)</li></ul></li></ul>

619. How to Poison the A.I. Machine

Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad news? Also: things you never knew you wanted to know about wolves, bananas, pollution, search engines, and the quirks of human behavior.

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