🚨Premium – 480. We Need to Talk About the Forces of Production🚨 We discuss and riff on the People’s AI Assembly, organized by AI Now Institute and More Perfect Union, which just happened in New York City.

🚨479. Trust Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings (ft. @KateKayeReports)🚨 We talk all about the history and future of trying to measure trust by turning it into quantified, objective feature of the world, rather than a dynamic, affective relationship between people.

🚨477. Amerikkka Intelligence🚨 We chat about "super intelligence," the factions of tech policy advice in Trump's admin, then the many ways that OpenAI and Anthropic are behaving like rogue agents who are irresponsible and incompetent to a degree that should be unbelievable.

🚨Premium – 476. Can You Believe What Leftists Think About AI🚨 We learn all about how leftists are against any new regulations for AI. It’s the unbelievable return of horseshoe theory as we discuss the curious new discourse cycle being promoted by prominent pundits.

🚨475. Never Let a Computer Tell Me Shit🚨 We jump off from the OpenAI - Hugging Face hack to discuss the misleading, cynical, and hysterical ways we talk about AI and the stranglehold that existential risk has on our framings and discourses.

🚨Premium – 474. Gym, Tan, Leverage🚨 We get into two stories about the tech sector and speculative real estate booms. First, how Netflix promises to turn the Jersey Shore into “Hollywood East”. Second, how the data centre bonanza is stretching Wall Street beyond its limits.

🚨473. Tech Workers of the World, Unite (ft. JS Tan, @ClarissaRedwine)🚨 We chat with veteran tech labor organizers about their new book that chronicles the tech worker movement, while also offering invaluable perspective and advice on building worker power in tech.

🚨Premium – 472. Australia’s AI Pitch Deck🚨 We take a closer look at the new all-of-government strategy for *AI in Australia’s Interests.* Australia has plotted out a bold, progressive vision where AI enthusiasm is mandatory and the inability to say no is actually empowering.

🚨471. Breaking the Leviathan🚨 We deep dive into New York’s police-surveillance infrastructure, a sprawling leviathan that Mayor Zohran Mamdani was outspoken against during his campaign, but has now inherited and is even warming up to as his administration settles into power.

🚨Premium – 470. Choking on Data Exhaust🚨 We breakdown new reporting which shows the sheer scale of fossil-fuelled data center development in the United States. We’re talking more than 120 GIGAWATTS of new gas-burning power plants in development just to electrify data centers.