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He founded numerous companies, including Test Prep Gurus, a test prep and education consulting firm based in Newport Beach, California, that works with students across the United States, and more than a dozen other countries. Nick is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, consultant, and podcaster.
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If you like to ask questions, dive beneath the surface, and learn about fascinating individuals, you’ve found your home. Join Nick Standlea for long-form conversations with authors, entrepreneurs, creators, and other brilliant experts.
Video episodes available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNickStandleaShow
You can follow Nick and the show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickstandlea/
A little bit about Nick: He earned a perfect score on the SAT, but thinks standardized tests are overrated. He won grants to teach kids to surf in China, explore caves in Tibet, study business at the University of Oxford, and explore Art History in Italy. Nick is a former Research Associate at the Quality of Life Research Center, where he studied creativity, flow, and learning, under his mentor, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of Flow.
He founded numerous companies, including Test Prep Gurus, a test prep and education consulting firm based in Newport Beach, California, that works with students across the United States, and more than a dozen other countries. Nick is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, consultant, and podcaster.
Ask questions. Don’t accept the status quo. Be curious.
Jeffrey Sachs: AI and Geopolitics | "All the wealth could go to the ones at the top!"
The Nick Standlea Show
35 minutes
2 months ago
Jeffrey Sachs: AI and Geopolitics | "All the wealth could go to the ones at the top!"
Artificial intelligence won’t just change jobs — it could rewrite the balance of global power.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs has been in the room where the world’s most consequential decisions get made. For four decades, he’s advised more than 100 governments, from Poland’s transition out of communism to the United Nations’ fight against poverty and disease. Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
In this conversation, Sachs and I dive into:*AI’s entanglement with the military-industrial complex*Why AI may drive wealth concentration and lower wages*The risk of an “AI aristocracy of trillionaires”*How China is leapfrogging the U.S. technologically*Two possible futures: mass misery or an age of abundance
📌 Watch until the end — Sachs shares what YOU can do in the next 1–5 years to make a positive impact.
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💬 5 Best Quotes“Every American understands the game is rigged right now. If you’re rich, you own government. If you’re poor, you look on like a helpless observer.”
“The dystopian idea that all the money goes to the top is not an impossible outcome of AI.”
“If only Elon and a few buddies own the machines, we’re in a shitload of trouble.”
“AI really does reduce real wages and raise the return to capital. That’s its deepest civilian impact.”
“It’s not the technology itself that determines the outcome — it’s politics and societal dynamics.”
⏱️ Timestamps0:00 – The rise of AI and trillionaire elites1:05 – Introducing Jeffrey Sachs2:16 – Advising Bolivia, Poland, and the Soviet Union5:20 – AI and the global balance of power7:56 – Leapfrogging technology: China vs. U.S.12:01 – How outsourcing created China’s ecosystem17:32 – AI and the military-industrial complex22:04 – Wealth concentration and inequality in the AI age24:19 – Will AI help the Global South or hurt workers?28:00 – Two possible futures: abundance or misery30:03 – How money corrupted U.S. politics31:46 – What individuals can do now34:45 – Closing thoughts
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The Nick Standlea Show
If you like to ask questions, dive beneath the surface, and learn about fascinating individuals, you’ve found your home. Join Nick Standlea for long-form conversations with authors, entrepreneurs, creators, and other brilliant experts.
Video episodes available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNickStandleaShow
You can follow Nick and the show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickstandlea/
A little bit about Nick: He earned a perfect score on the SAT, but thinks standardized tests are overrated. He won grants to teach kids to surf in China, explore caves in Tibet, study business at the University of Oxford, and explore Art History in Italy. Nick is a former Research Associate at the Quality of Life Research Center, where he studied creativity, flow, and learning, under his mentor, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of Flow.
He founded numerous companies, including Test Prep Gurus, a test prep and education consulting firm based in Newport Beach, California, that works with students across the United States, and more than a dozen other countries. Nick is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, consultant, and podcaster.
Ask questions. Don’t accept the status quo. Be curious.
