{"id":71380,"date":"2025-12-10T16:58:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=71380"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:38:11","slug":"krugman-and-kedroskya-most-enlightening-conversation-about-ai-its-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/12\/krugman-and-kedroskya-most-enlightening-conversation-about-ai-its-future.html","title":{"rendered":"<font size=\"+1\"><em>Krugman and Kedrosky<\/em><\/font><br><strong>A Most Enlightening Conversation About AI &amp; Its Future<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>As a longtime reader of Paul Krugman&#8217;s columns, I can say without hesitation that this is his best Substack conversation yet about AI and its ramifications. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/paulkedrosky.com\/about\/\">Paul Kedrosky<\/a>&#8216;s clarity, I understand a helluva lot more of what is going on than I did until now.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/talking-with-paul-kedrosky?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"377\" data-attachment-id=\"71310\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/screenshot-298\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Paul-Krugman-Paul-Kedrosky-final-750.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,377\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Paul Krugman &amp;#038; Paul Kedrosky\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Paul-Krugman-Paul-Kedrosky-final-750-300x151.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Paul-Krugman-Paul-Kedrosky-final-750.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Paul-Krugman-Paul-Kedrosky-final-750.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71310\" title=\"CLICK TO WATCH AND\/OR LISTEN.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Paul-Krugman-Paul-Kedrosky-final-750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Paul-Krugman-Paul-Kedrosky-final-750-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/talking-with-paul-kedrosky?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true\">Click the image to watch and\/or listen.<\/a><\/em> <em>Krugman posted the conversation this morning (Dec. 6, 2025).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As a longtime reader of Paul Krugman&#8217;s columns, I can say without hesitation that this is his best Substack conversation yet about AI and its ramifications. Thanks to Paul Kedrosky&#8217;s clarity, I understand a helluva lot more of what is going on than I did until now.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"category-media","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/paul-krugman-headshot-240.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-izi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71384,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71380\/revisions\/71384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}