This Machine Kills

🚨281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)🚨 Our friend @mer__edith joins us for a giant discussion that bridges her historical analysis of plantation logics and industrial computation with the political economy of "open" AI. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

It’s easy to forget that these magical mystery machines are direct descendants of the “T9 word” I used for texting on my Nokia brick. I chat with Emily and @alexhanna about what the boosters and doomers both get wrong about these big piles of linear algebra.

🚨408. Synthetic Text Extruder Hype (ft. Emily Bender, Alex Hanna)🚨 We're joined by Emily Bender and @alexhanna to pierce the veil of hype that shrouds AI systems—these extruding machines that turn the pink slime of the internet into nuggets of text. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

🚨415. It’s Time to Build… Radical Policy for AI (ft. Sarah Myers West, Amba Kak)🚨 Sarah and Amba from @AINowInstitute discuss their work laying out a progressive—and practical—policy agenda for AI, which centers real social need not corporate profit. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

Excelente episodio de @machinekillspod sobre el uso de la IA en fraudes en línea. @alicetiara habla de muchos temas muy interesantes, como la propagación de teorías de la conspiración en TikTok 👌, entre otros temas

I had a blast chatting with @alicetiara about a real bugbear topic of mine. Thanks to AI, scams are now even more automated, ubiquitous, and dynamic than ever before. When we talk about the AI economy, fraud of all kinds is a huge load-bearing part of that.

We pick apart the weird startups, junk science, and wild ideologies that want you to optimize and assetize your genetics — with the ultimate goal of creating and enforcing a society ordered by genetic hierarchies.

🚨Preview – 412. Sweat Your Genetic Assets🚨 We dive into Nucleus Genomics, a startup backed by the Founders Fund, that wants to help you evaluate, rank, and name your embryos in a pre-IVF dashboard designed for “genetic optimization.” Cool stuff! soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

🚨411. Big Easy’s Big Brother🚨 We dive into a secret partnership between the New Orleans Police Department and Project NOLA, a private organisation that owns and operates an extensive network of facial recognition cameras blanketing New Orleans. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

🚨409. The Breakup Meltdown🚨 It’s a real friends and enemies episode of TMK as we get into the Trump/Musk split, the Luckey/Zuckberg rekindling, and learn about a man that Sam Altman calls a “dear personal friend.” soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

🚨Patreon Preview – 407. Burn Notice🚨 We dive into a profile of Kara Swisher and learn how to dominate the podcast leaderboards and bring home the big bucks by becoming new media entrepreneurs. patreon.com/thismachinekil… soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

This podcast is consistently so brilliant in its analysis. I feel like I am not smart enough for it, but am always entranced. It cuts through so much bullshit, just with simple truth, all rooted in principle and morality, all of which are so absent in our culture right now.

🚨405. AI is the Demon God of Capital (ft. Hagen Blix)🚨 We chat with Hagen Blix—co-author of Why We Fear AI—about how the weird qualities of AI (as a seemingly alien power) takes the social logic of capital (as an alienating force) to the next level. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…