Carl Benedikt Frey's videos and podcasts
Earlier this month
More defence spending (though needed) or an "Airbus for AI" is not going to restart European growth....
September 2026
"Meetings are the broccoli of work – widely disliked, but probably good for us anyway."
Who should own what AI learns? In my latest for @ProSyn, I offer an alternative to @satyanadella’s proposed “trust boundaries.”
Who should own what AI learns? In my latest for Project Syndicate, I offer an alternative to Satya N...
Firms like DoorDash, Siemens and Airbnb have began to use much cheaper open-weight Chinese models. They are not alone: "at the start of the year, three-fifths of its queries were routed through to closed-weight proprietary models. The latest share is just a quarter."
Firms like DoorDash, Siemens and Airbnb have began to use much cheaper open-weight Chinese models. T...
My latest for Project Syndicate Commenting on post from: Project Syndicate with content: Carl Bened...
Chuffed to see that the great Philip Zelikow's thoughtful and blazing review of How Progress Ends (alongside Josh Tyrangiel's "AI for Good") made the cover of @TheTLS this week.
Chuffed to see that the great Philip Zelikow's thoughtful and blazing review of #HowProgressEnds (al...
Once upon a time, Uber caused mayhem as conventional taxi services resisted it. Now Uber and the drivers’ union are joining forces to resist self-driving cars. Incumbents, whoever they are, really don’t like competition. This is one reason why the productivity gains from AI will take time to materialize—and, in some instances, may not materialize at all.
Once upon a time, Uber caused mayhem as conventional taxi services resisted it. Now Uber and the dri...
August 2026
My latest in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on what Europe needs to do to catch up technologically. ...
There is nothing paradoxical about this commonly alleged paradox. The welfare state makes people mor...
This conversation with Eddie Fishman and Richard Brass at the Edinburgh International Book Festival ...