251. The Triforce of Corporate Power in AI (ft. Sarah Myers West)
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The Materialist Analysis of Power in the Tech Sector
The power and decisions of AI have largely been invisible in most people's lives until very recently. And that still persists, but it's being made visible in ways that are really like ricocheting between two into the spectrum of like the kind of hysteria, the hysterical reactions to it or the increasingly mundane normalization of it. The New York Times upshot ran an article titled 35 ways real people are using AI right now. It seems like we are simultaneously told at the same time, often by the same newspapers, that this thing is going to end human civilization as we know it,. But also, it's a really nice way to plan a garden and plan your meals from a day on a
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