Big Tech’s Bogus Vision for the Future w/ Paris Marx

Big Tech’s Bogus Vision for the Future w/ Paris Marx

What’s the deal with Silicon Valley selling imagined futures and never delivering on them. What are the consequences of an industry all-in on AI? What if we thought more deeply than just ‘more compute’?

More like this: Big Dirty Data Centres with Boxi Wu and Jenna Ruddock

This week, Paris Marx (host of Tech Won’t Save Us) joined Alix to chat about his recent work on hyperscale data centres, and his upcoming book on the subject

We discuss everything from the US shooting itself in the foot with it’s lack of meaningful industrial policy and how decades of lackluster political vision from governments created a vacuum that has now been filled with Silicon Valley's garbage ideas. And of course, how the US’s outsourcing of manufacturing to China has catalysed China’s domestic technological progress.

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Terra Nullius: Who Owns the Skies? w/ Julia Powles

Terra Nullius: Who Owns the Skies? w/ Julia Powles

This is our second Terra Nullius episode. As a reminder this means ‘Nobody’s Land’ — an infamous legal fiction from the age of Empire. In this episode we ask: who owns the skies?We get into it with la...

9 Touko 202552min

Terra Nullius: Who Owns Outer Space? w/ Heather Allansdottir

Terra Nullius: Who Owns Outer Space? w/ Heather Allansdottir

This is our first in a series called Terra Nullius. Huh? It’s Latin for ‘Nobody’s Land’. We will be exploring how rules are made for contested territory. If a land belongs to no one, does that mean it...

2 Touko 202548min

How to (Actually) Keep Kids Safe Online w/ Kate Sim

How to (Actually) Keep Kids Safe Online w/ Kate Sim

Child safety is a fuzzy catch-all concept for our broader social anxieties that seems to be everywhere in our conversations about the internet. But child safety isn’t a new concept, and the way our po...

25 Huhti 202548min

Worker Power & Big Tech Bossmen w/ David Seligman

Worker Power & Big Tech Bossmen w/ David Seligman

This week Alix interviewed David Seligman, Executive Director of Towards Justice, to tell us more about how big tech companies act brazenly as legal bullies to extract wealth and power from the workin...

18 Huhti 202546min

AI Can’t Fix This: Live in London

AI Can’t Fix This: Live in London

Last week Alix was in London to talk UK politics and broligarchy with four amazing guests:Martha Dark from Foxglove gave us the history and implications of the NHS/Palantir partnership of horrorMatt M...

11 Huhti 20251h 15min

Technology Nationalism in India w/ Divij Joshi

Technology Nationalism in India w/ Divij Joshi

Amidst the scrambling of geopolitics, there is increasing conversation and momentum for the concept of tech sovereignty. It basically means that countries should build their own technology rather than...

4 Huhti 202550min

AI Assistant or AI Boss? w/ Data & Society

AI Assistant or AI Boss? w/ Data & Society

Two years ago, we were told that ‘prompt engineer’ would be a real job — well, it’s not. Is generative AI actually going to replace and transform human labour, or is this just another shallow marketin...

28 Maalis 202543min

Regulating Privacy in an AI Era w/ Carly Kind

Regulating Privacy in an AI Era w/ Carly Kind

This week Alix is speaking with her long-time friend and collaborator Carly Kind, who is now the privacy commissioner of Australia. Here’s something you may be embarrassed to ask: what does a privacy ...

21 Maalis 20251h

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