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GoodFellows: Conversations on Economics, History & Geopolitics

GoodFellows: Conversations on Economics, History & Geopolitics

Boomers, Burners, and Flying Cars with Cal Newport | GoodFellows

Oct 20, 2026 · 1h 7m

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While the public clamors for some semblance of government regulation of the burgeoning artificial intelligence sector, the question remains: how to prevent doom scenarios without compromising the industry’s innovative spirit. Cal Newport, a Georgetown University computer scientist and frequent writer on AI matters, discusses questions he wants Congress to ask and suggests ways to keep AI from undermining secondary and college learning processes (are Georgetown’s phone-free “cognition cloisters” the answer?). After that, the fellows discuss what’s fueling the fiery riots across Western Europe (is it time that European nations paid attention to Javier Milei’s reforms in Argentina?) and what…