# The High Stakes of the AI Economy, Live from the WBUR Festival

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Podcast: [Is Business Broken?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-business-broken-6888253)
Published: 2025-07-03T14:54:00+00:00
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AI promises massive gains in productivity and a flourishing of goods and services—but also poses consequences for jobs, corporate power, and society. There will be winners and losers. Today, we're asking: How do we strike the balance between innovation and safety, between competition and concentration, between policy and industry regulation?At a live event as part of the WBUR Festival, host Curt Nickisch speaks to:Divya Sridhar - Vice President, Global Privacy Division & Privacy Operations, BBB National ProgramsAsu Ozdaglar - Department Head, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Deputy Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of ComputingAndrei Hagiu – Professor of Information Systems, Boston University Questrom School of BusinessSen. Barry Finegold - State Senator, Essex and Middlesex Counties, MA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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