INTERVIEW: Vikram Mansharamani speaks with Brent Orrell
AEI Hardly Working Podcast
We live in times marked by the omnipresence of the internet and instantaneous access to the accumulated knowledge of humanity. This leads us into relying on quick, narrow answers to large, complex questions. Are we going too far in our reliance on experts and, in the process, forgetting how to think for ourselves? In this episode, I talk to Vikram Mansharamani, a lecturer at Harvard University and the author of Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in An Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence. We discuss the need to reduce our reliance on experts living in the silos of their own professional fields, the importance of a liberal arts education, and how to stay focused on your mission.