Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: uncertainty
7 Jan 2026 Conversations with Tyler Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
“To go off and do anything you want with literature, with art, with travel, with music, climbing the Alps, I don’t know.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- uncertainty
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- 7 Jan 2026
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…I agree with that. I think that’s certainly the case. Imagine if you had a panel of domain experts across every industry that were able to perform these interviews. Certainly, the best models will be better than any single best individual, but I would expect that the aggregate sum of all experts in each domain will likely remain better than the models for a long time. Now, you dropped out of school. Now, you’re doing the company. Obviously, you’re very busy, but imagine, as an act of magic, you could have a free year just inserted between today and tomorrow, and you come back and nothing has changed. To go off and do anything you want with literature, with art, with travel, with music, climbing the Alps, I don’t know. What would you do with the year? That’s a fascinating question. Can it be AI-related?…
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