The Sunday Show Interrogating Tech Power and Democratic Crisis
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Jun 29, 2025 
Join Jacob Metcalf, AI expert at Data & Society, Tamara Kneese, a climate tech advocate, Reem Suleiman, privacy advocate from Mozilla, and Kevin De Liban, founder of TechTonic Justice, as they dissect the intersection of technology and democracy. They discuss how tech oligarchs threaten democratic values and citizens’ privacy through surveillance. The impact of data centers on vulnerable communities and the troubling labor ideology in Silicon Valley also take center stage. Tune in for a thought-provoking conversation on the urgent need for accountability and public participation in tech policy.
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Tech Power Threatens Democracy
- Tech oligarchs and authoritarian governments are leveraging AI to centralize control and change democratic participation conditions.
- This tech-driven shift threatens privacy, labor rights, environmental sustainability, and democracy globally.
AI Undermines Material Stability
- AI intensifies socioeconomic precarity by worsening decisions about welfare, employment, and housing.
- Material instability limits meaningful democratic participation across society, not only among the poor.
Survive and Resist AI Harm
- Help vulnerable communities survive by investing in legal aid and mutual aid organizations.
- Reject AI as a legitimate decision-making tool and use people’s lived harm as a basis for political mobilization.