KPFA - UpFront

00:08 Emily M. Bender,a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, and Alex Hanna, Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), co-authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want  [Re-broadcast of an interview originally recorded on July 10]

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00:08  Malcolm Harris, author of several books; the newest is What’s Left: three paths through the planetary crisis

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00:08 — Toby Higbie is Professor of History and Labor Studies at the UCLA and the Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.

00:33 — Mouin Rabbani is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, previously principal political affairs officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria.

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00:08 — Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez is a reporter for KFF Health News at the rural health desk and is based in Elko, Nevada.

00:33 — John Nichols is Executive Editor for the Nation.

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00:08 — Stephanie Kramer is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center.

00:33 — Amy Belsher is director of Immigrants’ Rights Litigation at the New York Civil Liberties Union and worked on the case of Mata Velasquez who was taken by ICE during its new practice of stationing agents outside of immigration courts.

00:45 —  Abigail Kunkler is an EPIC Law Fellow focusing on surveillance oversight. Sergio Alcubilla is the Director of Community Engagement at the ACLU of Hawaiʻi.

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00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.

00:33 — Annie Waldman is a reporter at ProPublica covering health care.

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00:08 Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis, co-founders of the L.A. Tenants Union, and now co-authors of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

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00:08 — Tim Redmond, founder of 48hills. 

00:33 — Sam Levine is Voting Rights Reporter at Guardian. 

00:45 — Bob Mulholland is Campaign Advisor to the California Democratic Party.

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00:08 — Adam Mahoney, climate and environment reporter at Capital B. 

00:33 — Hannah Harris Green is an independent journalist and radio producer based in Chicago. She covers science, healthcare and the war on drugs.

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00:08 — Harry Davies is an Investigations correspondent for the Guardian.

00:33 — Hillary Ronen, is an author of the report and a former San Francisco District 9 Supervisor and Local Progress member. The report was a collaboration between Local Progress Impact Lab and AI Now Institute.

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