Sep 20, 2026 · 40 min · 11 segments
Send us Fan Mail We talk with Alistair Mokhtar, a high school senior and author of The AI Dividend, about how AI could reshape jobs, wages, and opportunity if policy stays stuck in the past. We lay…
Yeah.
They say people are, you know, I'm, look, I know bringing children to the world, it's a cost.
OK, maybe that will mitigate some of that as well, especially for those of you who are parents.
You know, this is why I say we have to be open to new ideas, be open to it.
Look, I'm neither really a conservative or a liberal.
I'm more of a moderate leaning independent.
We definitely need some ideas here.
And look, when I read the book, you can't pin it politically.
You really cannot because it has some right wing ideas.
It even addresses both the political spectrum, I would say, well.
And, you know, people say, oh, this is left wing, right wing.
You're not reading the book.
You're just spreading a political agenda.
I've read it.
And it's not that it includes some of the right leaning stuff, some left leaning stuff, you know, like the equity, the freedom of choice.
Yeah.
And I think that's good because it's not, you know, it's not, you know, oh, yay for one team and boo for the other team.
This is more of a macro level solution.
Big picture.
OK, this is what I like about the book.
It's not.
It's not a red pill, blue pill thing.
Maybe, you know, actually, I'm not going to say this.
It sounded good in my head.
I thought about it, so I'm not going to say it.
Yeah.
They say people are, you know, I'm, look, I know bringing children to the world, it's a cost.
OK, maybe that will mitigate some of that as well, especially for those of you who are parents.
You know, this is why I say we have to be open to new ideas, be open to it.
Look, I'm neither really a conservative or a liberal.
I'm more of a moderate leaning independent.
We definitely need some ideas here.
And look, when I read the book, you can't pin it politically.
You really cannot because it has some right wing ideas.
It even addresses both the political spectrum, I would say, well.
And, you know, people say, oh, this is left wing, right wing.
You're not reading the book.
You're just spreading a political agenda.
I've read it.
And it's not that it includes some of the right leaning stuff, some left leaning stuff, you know, like the equity, the freedom of choice.
Yeah.
And I think that's good because it's not, you know, it's not, you know, oh, yay for one team and boo for the other team.
This is more of a macro level solution.
Big picture.
OK, this is what I like about the book.
It's not.
It's not a red pill, blue pill thing.
Maybe, you know, actually, I'm not going to say this.
It sounded good in my head.
I thought about it, so I'm not going to say it.
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