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251. The Triforce of Corporate Power in AI (ft. Sarah Myers West)

This Machine Kills

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The Politics of Refusal in AI

I think it feeds into one reason why it's so hard to think about alternatives is because there does seem to be something structural at a technological level with AI that pushes it towards these consolidations of power. These are AI systems extremely data and compute intensive, which means they're very capital intensive. You can't have your own data server under your bed running your bespoke AI, right? Like, you can't do that. And so it does require democratization of the system,. But we did spend a lot of time talking with young who's with Justice speaks about, you know, like, where are the wins? Where are the places that we can point to either like, you know

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