🚨281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)🚨. Our friend @mer__edith joins us for a giant discussion that bridges her historical analysis of plantation logics and industrial computation with the political economy of "open" AI.

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🚨Preview – 420. Long Live the Moron Kings🚨. We chat about a contemptuous profile of the fringe futurists, biohacker kooks, wealthy technocratics, and wannabe philosopher kings who have combined their vast resources and grand dreams to pursue a single mission: immortality.

RT @machinekillspod: 🚨419. The Launch of a Stillborn God🚨. We chat about the disappointing launch and reception of GPT-5 and what this mass….

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🚨419. The Launch of a Stillborn God🚨. We chat about the disappointing launch and reception of GPT-5 and what this massive claims-reality gap tells us about an overactive industry propelled by grand social forces of capital accumulation to produce tech that's good for ???

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🚨Preview – 418. The Trump Pump🚨. We get into the thick morass of the Trump family’s ongoing entanglements with the crypto industry—and how both sides are deeply, financially dependent on each other. Trump has embraced his true calling: fictitious meme capital.

🚨417. Whose AI Bubble Is It Anyways? (ft. Paris Marx, Brian Merchant)🚨. We're joined by @parismarx and @bcmerchant to chat about the vast proliferation of AI bubbles across the US, Europe, and China—and their competing visions of the ideal global value chain for AI.

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🚨Preview – 416. The Neverending Race🚨. We get into Silicon Valley imperialism, American force projection and soft power through AI, the endlessly convenient competition against China, plus a new addition of tech freak watch.

RT @jathansadowski: The @AINowInstitute's landscape reports are always an immediate must-read for me—and the latest is no exception. It was….

🚨415. It’s Time to Build… Radical Policy for AI (ft. Sarah Myers West, Amba Kak)🚨. Sarah and Amba from @AINowInstitute discuss their work laying out a progressive—and practical—policy agenda for AI, which centers real social need not corporate profit.

RT @rafael_regla: Excelente episodio de @machinekillspod sobre el uso de la IA en fraudes en línea. @alicetiara habla de muchos temas muy i….

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🚨Preview – 414. Deus Ex Zuck🚨. We turn our sights on the incredible amount of cash that Zuckberg is spending to hire big names in AI and ask the question: What could possibly make this level of investment into creating the Meta Superintelligence Lab a worthwhile endeavor?

RT @jathansadowski: I had a blast chatting with @alicetiara about a real bugbear topic of mine. Thanks to AI, scams are now even more autom….

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🚨413. ScamGPT – How AI Supercharges Fraud (ft. Alice Marwick)🚨. We are joined by @alicetiara—research director at @datasociety—to chat about a new report she co-authored on how generative AI is now unleashing a new world of fraud, making it easier than ever to scam-at-scale.

RT @jathansadowski: We pick apart the weird startups, junk science, and wild ideologies that want you to optimize and assetize your genetic….

🚨Preview – 412. Sweat Your Genetic Assets🚨. We dive into Nucleus Genomics, a startup backed by the Founders Fund, that wants to help you evaluate, rank, and name your embryos in a pre-IVF dashboard designed for “genetic optimization.” Cool stuff!