Tech Won't Save Us

AI Hype Enters Its Geopolitics Era w/ Timnit Gebru

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Paris Marx is joined by Timnit Gebru to discuss where the AI industry stands in 2025 as AI increasingly becomes a geopolitical football even as the big promises made by AI companies fail to materialize.

Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • Timnit wrote about the TESCREAL bundle of ideologies with Émile Torres.
  • The Data Workers’ Inquiry allowed data workers to share their experiences in their workplaces.

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