Justified Posteriors

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Harvard Dean David Deming on AI and the Future of Harvard

September 28, 2026

This week, we’re joined by David Deming, top labor economist, blogger at the Forked Lightning Substack, and — since 2025 — Undergraduate Dean of Harvard College, to ask how the value of social skills will change in the age of thinking and talking machines. We start with his QJE paper “The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market,” which models social skills as a factor that reduces coordination costs, plus his new work arguing that meetings must be important because Norwegian w...

Daron Acemoglu on pro-worker AI and vibes based capital

September 14, 2026

We’re honored to host Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor at MIT and 2024 Nobel laureate. Daron has spent a decade arguing that AI should be built to make human expertise more valuable rather than to replace it, most recently in “Building Pro-Worker AI” with David Autor and Simon Johnson, and in a Nature essay on why we should stop talking about AGI. He also has a new book out, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?.We came to steelman pro-worker AI and to find the tensions in it. The big questi...

Martin Beraja on AI-tocracy, the Benefits of Unclear Property Rights, and the Massive Potential of AI to Optimize Firms

August 31, 2026

This week, we’re joined by Martin Beraja of UC Berkeley Haas, one of the most prolific macroeconomists working on AI. We start with his newest paper “Growth at the Resource Frontier” — with Noam Yuchtman — which argues that NYT v. OpenAI is just the latest instance of a very old pattern — innovators appropriate resources nobody had bothered to assign property rights to (oil, the electromagnetic spectrum, ad data), and the courts legitimate it afterward. Could it be that unclear property right...

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The publicly listed email for Justified Posteriors: sbenzell@gmail.com.

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Who is an ideal guest for Justified Posteriors?

Justified Posteriors typically books well-known public figures. Typical guest background: Established economists, law professors, AI researchers, policy experts, and senior leaders with original research, institutional leadership, or substantial experience in technology, labor markets, innovation, or public policy. Common among recent guests: Peer-reviewed academic research; Leadership of prominent research or policy institutions; Government or congressional testimony. Recent guests include Martin Beraja, Martha Gimbel, and Kevin Frazier.

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High. It mostly books established leaders in its field.

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Recent episodes cover Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Innovation, Technology, and Labor. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.