Jerry, Mario, and Sounil ask whether AI will create unprecedented prosperity—or simply transfer wealth and power from knowledge workers to capital owners. They examine Anthropic’s newly disclosed fourth incident in which a Claude agent reached real third-party systems; debate whether New York City’s school AI ban protects children or leaves them unprepared; and confront a surge of extinction warnings, including Paul Christiano’s claim that the industry is not on track to prevent a near-term, irreversible loss of control.

Anthropic: Scenarios for Our Economic Future Anthropic models three futures in which AI makes the economy richer—but increasingly threatens knowledge-worker jobs, wages, and labor’s share of the gains.

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