‘Corporations are Robots’: David Runciman on AI, states and the first singularity

David Runciman is a professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the host of the critically acclaimed podcast Talking Politics. In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, he speaks to Alina Utrata about why corporations are robots, how singularity might have already come about, why we should think seriously about the political philosophy of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs, and what technologies he worries about in the future.

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Articles mentioned in this podcast

Silicon Valley’s Vampire: David Runciman on Peter Thiel

I read Dominic Cummings blog so you don’t have to: David Runciman on Dominic Cummings

Elon Musk, Sea Turtles and the dangers of long-termism

Dangerous ideas of longtermism

Nick Clegg in profile in Politico 

The Evening Rocket: Jill Lepore’s podcast series on Elon Musk’s ideology

A long-read in the FT about how the US shut down Facebook’s crypto-currency

Books mentioned in this podcast:

The Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang

The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 by David Edgerton

Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-land

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