The Most Practical Conversation About Writing With AI – Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen, an economist and writer, talks with me about how AI is changing writing and research. He explains a practical approach to using AI tools while maintaining your own voice and the ways he incorporates LLMs into his daily work. We talk about how people will be writing fewer books in the future and how he believes truly human writing will stand out among AI-generated content. Enjoy!

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0:00 Intro
1:00 How Tyler Cowen uses AI everyday
6:06 Hallucinations are rapidly declining now
9:28 Writing authentically with AI
11:34 AI for critiquing your work
17:29 Future of decentralized AI networks
20:34 Why DeepSeek
22:21 How AI changes writing
24:04 Why there will be less books in an AI era
26:34 Video content will rise
28:18 Start writing with AI [LEX AD]
29:18 AI writing a personal biography
30:46 How you can tactically learning about AI
37:12 How AI can help you visualize information
38:31 Creating the perfect AI prompt
42:10 AI's impact in the classroom
46:56 Studying The Bible with AI
49:11 Secrets
50:10 Why social networks are more important now
51:48 Mastering AI prompting
53:58 Mentoring young people
54:49 Would you invest 4 years in a PhD
59:59 Perplexity replaces Google
01:01:09 The different AI tools, explained
01:05:43 The potential of large context windows
01:08:11 AI usage inside companies

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