{"podcast":{"title":"Faster, Please! — The Podcast","slug":"faster-please-the-podcast-5630783","podcast_index_feed_id":5630783,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/232077.rss","website_url":"https://fasterplease.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/232077/5ccbfa121d3b816d2f9d1b3cf2ea4b1f.jpg","author":"James Pethokoukis","episode_count":97,"summary":"Discovering, creating, and inventing a better world through technological innovation, economic growth, and pro-progress culture.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T22:17:54.549631+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/faster-please-the-podcast-5630783"},"episode":{"title":"✨ The Age of AI, an update: My chat with policy analyst Dean Ball","slug":"the-age-of-ai-an-update-my-chat-with-policy-analyst-dean-ball","published_at":"2026-03-24T15:35:53+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/faster-please-the-podcast-5630783/the-age-of-ai-an-update-my-chat-with-policy-analyst-dean-ball","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/faster-please-the-podcast-5630783","url":"https://fasterplease.substack.com/p/the-age-of-ai-an-update-my-chat-with","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/191524638/94b409b5675f8fd4eebc50c18615c168.mp3","summary":"My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Anxiety is running rampant about the future of artificial intelligence and its place in society. When technology CEOs warn of an impending white-collar jobpocalypse (or jobageddon, if you prefer), it’s no wonder public pessimism is so widespread. Today on Faster, Please!—The Podcast , I chat with tech policy analyst Dean Ball to help us sift through some of the uncertainty. We talk about recursive self-improvement, the role of AI in everything from medicine to defense, and what to think about the possible growing risk of AI company nationalization. (FYI: Our chat occurred just before the White House released new guidelines for AI federal legislation, about which Ball opined on X/Twitter: “The White House’s proposal for a nationwide AI law is a thoughtful document that will serve as an excellent foundation for the legislative work ahead. I would be happy to see these principles, if translated well into statute, become law.”) Ball is a senior fellow at FAI , the Foundation for American Innovation. He recently served as senior policy advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , as well as strategic advisor for AI at the National Science Foundation . He was previously a research fellow at the Mercatus Center and a policy fellow at Fathom . He’s also the author of the excellent Hyperdimensional Substack newsletter. In This Episode * Public pessimism (1:37) * Differing narratives (4:21) * The nationalization risk (16:15) * Accountability via audit (25:55) * Productivity projection (34:18) (A lightly edited transcript of our conversation will be appear in my Week in Review issue on Saturday. Another option is using the…","meta_description":"My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Anxiety is running rampant about the future of artificial intelligence…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2575,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/faster-please-the-podcast-5630783/episodes/the-age-of-ai-an-update-my-chat-with-policy-analyst-dean-ball/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/faster-please-the-podcast-5630783/the-age-of-ai-an-update-my-chat-with-policy-analyst-dean-ball.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}