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AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West

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The Rise of AI

Today's big tech dominance over AI research echoes the US military's control over science during the Cold War. Big tech for a long time had business models that were not largely reliant on military spending. Now, that's changing as they join the ranks of those old-school contractors and secure growing share of profits from their rise in the first place.

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