Ezra Klein's flip: build everything, but please stop the AI from coding
kevinnbass · x · 2026-09-22
kevinnbass highlights a contradiction in Ezra Klein's positions: in 2025 Klein blamed risk-averse bureaucrats and regulation for strangling America's ability to build, urging an abundance agenda; by 2026 he was pleading to stop AI from writing code. The quoted post notes Klein is far more educated on AI than a layperson and has presumably talked to many AI experts, yet fails to grasp that we are "well past the event horizon" on trying to stop this strategy — a window into the intellectual clash between abundance politics and AI-displacement anxiety.
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