Episode

The AI End Game: Who’s Leading the Way? with Derek Thompson

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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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May 5, 2026

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3703

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Summary

The unified class project of billionaires is doing to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers. And artificial intelligence is only exacerbating this trend. Derek Thompson is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, co-author of “Abundance,” and has written extensively about the political power of the wealthy. He joins Chris Hayes to kick off our new special miniseries, The AI End Game: Power, Profit and Progress.