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

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The Socialism Conference

Meredith Ritchie: Big Tech co-opts a neutralized critique by funding and elevating their weakest critics. Who is the controlled opposition that we're talking about here? Tristan Harris: I would point to some of the work earnest or not of folks like Tristan Harris. These are mind control systems with his thesis, right? Olafemi Taiwo: There's a narrative that has sort of blown up the power of these systems in ways that are very beguiling.

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