"These are people who like if we speak plainly about it, these are people who the ideologies they pull from," he says. "They create a global apartheid system that would probably be highly rigid and high or calm and delineated along lines of race and class and gender." These are also the same people ensuring that we have much more lethal drones and smarter systems to regulate them, she adds.
Paris Marx is joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss how the venture capital industry works, why the technologies it funds don’t deliver on their marketing promises, and how that’s once again being shown in the hype around AI.
Edward Ongweso Jr. is a freelance journalist, co-host of This Machine Kills, and guest columnist at The Nation. You can follow Ed on Twitter at @bigblackjacobin.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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