ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
A podcast about technology and political economy /// Agitprop against innovation and capital /// Hosted by Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr., Produced by Jereme Brown /// Hello friends and enemies
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Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
47 minutes
Guest interviews
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English
United States
507 episodes
since Aug. 8, 2020
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~40.95% of listeners are from United States.
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US
40.95%
🇬🇧
GB
11.18%
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DE
8.68%
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NL
6.63%
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CA
3.29%
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BE
3.07%
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FR
2.73%
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IN
2.09%
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CH
1.74%
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SG
1.63%
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AT
1.55%
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AU
1.49%
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NO
1.48%
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FI
1.36%
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ES
1.09%
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CO
1.00%
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ZA
0.84%
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SE
0.66%
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JP
0.66%
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NZ
0.63%
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IT
0.56%
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BR
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MX
0.49%
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IL
0.49%
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IE
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GR
0.40%
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RS
0.37%
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PT
0.37%
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RO
0.30%
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DK
0.28%
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HK
0.25%
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EE
0.22%
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RU
0.21%
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AR
0.17%
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TH
0.17%
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JM
0.14%
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SA
0.13%
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CL
0.11%
Others
1.62%
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We discuss and riff on the People’s AI Assembly, organized by AI Now Institute and More Perfect Union, which just happened in New York City.
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We get into the new decree from Trump that “artificial intelligence” is now called “super intelligence” – it sounds less fake and more powerful — and the broader currents of tech advice and policy in the Trump administration. Then we discuss how OpenAI and Anthropic are behaving like rogue agents, …
We learn all about how leftists are against any new regulations for AI. It’s the unbelievable return of horseshoe theory as we discuss the curious new discourse cycle being promoted by prominent pundits.
••• The Curious Left-Wing Argument Against New AI Regulations https://www.theatlantic.com/idea…
We jump off from the OpenAI - Hugging Face hacking incident as a way to talk about the misleading, cynical, and hysterical ways we talk about AI and the stranglehold that existential risk has on our framings and discourses. The OAI-HF event shows that rather than treating machine learning as certai…
We bring together two different stories about the tech sector and speculative real estate booms. First, how Netflix promises to turn the Jersey Shore into “Hollywood East”. Second, how the data centre bonanza is stretching Wall Street beyond its limits.
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