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episode 11: ‘Corporations are Robots’: David Runciman on AI, states and the first singularity
David Runciman is a professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the host of the critically acclaimed podcast Talking Politics. In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, he speaks to Alina Utrata about why corporations are robots, how singularity might have already come about, why we should think seriously about the political philosophy of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs, and what technologies he worries about in the future.
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Articles mentioned in this podcast
Silicon Valley’s Vampire: David Runciman on Peter Thiel
I read Dominic Cummings blog so you don’t have to: David Runciman on Dominic Cummings
Elon Musk, Sea Turtles and the dangers of long-termism
Dangerous ideas of longtermism
Nick Clegg in profile in Politico
The Evening Rocket: Jill Lepore’s podcast series on Elon Musk’s ideology
A long-read in the FT about how the US shut down Facebook’s crypto-currency
Books mentioned in this podcast:
The Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang
The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 by David Edgerton
Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-land
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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