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The Dig: AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West

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The Rise of AI in the Cloud

Meredith A. Cox: Google and other tech companies are trying to get a piece of the AI cloud market, which is dominated by private firms. She says there's been lobbying that has staged a kind of China US AI arms race as a rationale for pushing for bigger and bigger contracts. Cox: This really is like, you know, we want our companies to be the surveillance and death machine hegemon.

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