I heard Paul on the Ezra Klein show debate * What If the Economy Crashes? *and was gobsmacked that someone actually agreed with me based on far deeper knoweldge of AI, its hold over the stockmarket, and its protential to creat the Greatest Recession of 2027. I immediately contacted him and, well, here’s our conversation.
Paul is an investor, writer, and researcher focused on technology, financial markets, and economic change. He is a partner at venture capital firm SK Ventures, and a fellow at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy and at the Oxford-Man Institute, where he focuses on artificial intelligence, finance, and the future of work. Dr. Kedrosky was previously a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, and executive director of the von Liebig Center at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. He began his career as an equity analyst for HSBC. Paul writes and speaks about the economic and financial consequences of technological revolutions, particularly the speculative excesses, structural disruptions, and unintended consequences they produce. He consults for some of the largest fund managers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Paul has a extraordinarily valuable subscription service at paulkedrosky.com. He’s been featured on the BBC, in the Financial Times, on the Ezra Klein Show, as well as contributing to the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and the New York Times. Paul received a BS in Engineering at Carelton, an MBA at Queens University, and a PhD in IT at the University of Western Ontario.
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