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Scaling Laws: Is this your last "job"? The AI Economy With AEI's Brent Orrell

Kevin Frazier, Brett Orrell
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 10:00 AM

Most folks agree that AI is going to drastically change our economy, the nature of work, and the labor market. What's unclear is when those changes will take place and how best Americans can navigate the transition. 

Brent Orrell, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Kevin Frazier, a Senior Fellow at the Abundance Institute, the Director of the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law, and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to help tackle these and other weighty questions. Orrell has been studying the future of work since before it was cool. His two cents are very much worth a nickel in this important conversation.

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Kevin Frazier is a Senior Fellow at the Abundance Institute, Director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law, a Senior Editor at Lawfare, and a Adjunct Research Fellow at the Cato Institute.
Brent Orrell is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute focused on AI and the future of work.
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