In this episode I try to drop AI into a bit of a wider historical and political-economic perspective. More a series of propositions than any firm conclusions, but I hope it spurns some consideration on your part. Please share your thoughts in a comment or direct message. Thanks as always for listening and supporting the show.

Here are a few of the books I mentioned in the show, I highly recommend them all, but to me, Hao and Slobodian’s respective works are absolutely essential.

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI By Karen Hao

Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right Quinn Slobodian

and there is a pdf copy of Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation available here!

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