152. Why Billionaires Love AI -- Brian Merchant

152. Why Billionaires Love AI -- Brian Merchant

Brian Merchant, author of the newsletter Blood in the Machine, returns to the show to talk about the newsletter, ai, tech oligarchs, the neoliberal "abundance" agenda, jobs, and pretty much everything else you want to know about the terrible, horrible, no good collusion between Trump, Tech billionaires, and ai. Fight the tech billionaires. Support Blood in the Machine!

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/

You can also check out Brian's previous appearance on his book about the luddites - also called Blood in the Machine: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/a05a3ed4-471c-4224-9ac6-4af204b7ff1d/

Oh, and you can find some of my work on ai here:

https://aideas.captivate.fm/

https://www.aiedu.org/aiedu-blog/guest-author-ethics-culbertson-1

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171. Reel Politik -- Nathan Gelgud

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170. The Biblical Curse of Wealth -- Pastor Micah

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168. Enshittification -- Cory Doctorow

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166. Goliath's Curse -- Luke Kemp

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164. Slow Cinema as Democratic Cinema -- Paul Schrader

In normal cinema, the goal of the director is to control the audience, to direct their gaze, to dictate their emotions.What does it mean when directors make movies where the audience is allowed to dec...

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