# Sarah Myers West

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Crash, Bailout, or Breakthrough? The Future of America’s AI Bet

What happens when an innovation boom starts to look like a financial bubble? This week, Elisa sits down with Sarah Myers West of the AI Now Institute to examine the mounting evidence that America’s most influential AI firms may be overvalued, overleveraged, and quietly expecting government rescue i…

How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (with Naomi Klein), 2026.02.09

AI boosters and the US military are engaged in a lethal love affair. Award-winning journalist Naomi Klein joins Emily and Alex to discuss how glitchy technology supports global imperialism — and vice versa. Plus, we explore which Dr. Strangelove characters are currently running the US war machine. …

Computer Says Kill: A License for Unlimited War w/ Amos Toh

Military spending on AI is a triple black box: How is AI being used in the military? Who is winning these contracts and what are they worth? And what is the military’s end-game here? More like this: How a Calculator Company Reshaped Modern Warfare w/ Jeff Stern Amos Toh will help us answer these qu…

Down with the AI Overlords (w/ Sarah Myers West)

You've already heard us rant about AI. What if you could hear someone who's actually super smart and profoundly informed...also rant about AI? We're joined by tech expert Sarah Myers West, who lays out why AI, as it's currently structured, is all about the consolidation of power among a handful of …

Down with the AI Overlords w/ Sarah Myers West / Fighting Fascism

You've already heard us rant about AI. What if you could hear someone who's actually super smart and profoundly informed... also rant about AI? We're joined by tech expert Sarah Myers West, who lays out why AI, as it's currently structured, is all about the consolidation of power among a handful of…

Computer Says Kill: The AI Safety Circus w/ Heidy Khlaaf

The AI industry loves to talk about safety, but their version of safety is putting us at risk. More like this: The Palestine Laboratory w/ Antony Loewenstein For our second to last series episode of Computer Says Kill, we’re joined by Heidy Khlaaf, a global expert in designing safe critical systems…

Data Centers Hit Water, Grid and Financing Bottlenecks — August 17, 2026

Data centers face a three-front constraint: San Joaquin Valley water scrutiny, San Jose moratorium pressure, and storage projects stuck in grid queues, while Reuters reports lenders are pricing community opposition into project risk. In this episode Will AI data centers soak up the last of the val…

Doomsday AI: panic, regulation and the China fear | The Listening Post

AI’s existential threat to humanity is dominating headlines across the globe. But with so much attention on the fear of a future AI apocalypse, is the media ignoring the damage AI is already causing? And as AI CEOs join forces to call for regulations, is their motivation about public safety or to s…

Weekend Edition: Campaign 2026, Regulating AI, and 3rd Anniversary of October 7th Attack

In this weekend's episode, three segments from this past week's Washington Journal. First – On Wednesday President Trump made his third trip to Texas in a month to support Republican Governor Greg Abbott and Senate candidate Ken Paxton who are facing stiffer-than-expected political headwinds. We…

SUMO Weekly: 10 October 2026

About this episode An independently researched digest of worthwhile A.I. developments from the week. How this episode was made SUMO is researched and created with the help of ChatGPT. Ben, our real human in the loop, sets the editorial direction. Sources Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center b…