475. Never Let a Computer Tell Me Shit

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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?) Episode: 475. Never Let a Computer Tell Me Shit Pub date: 2026-09-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We jump off from the OpenAI - Hugging Face hacking incident as a way to talk about the misleading, cynical, and hysterical ways we talk about AI and the stranglehold that existential risk has on our framings and discourses. The OAI-HF event shows that rather than treating machine learning as certain kind of technology that does things in ways that can be explained and contextualized, even when our understanding is somewhat murky or incomplete, AI is proffered as an emergent god with mystified intentions, a great becoming that is equally horrifying and awe-inspiring. ••• LLMs are real, AI is fake https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/ ••• We Must Pace the Frontier https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social) The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from This Machine Kills, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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Podcast: This Machine Kills Episode: 475. Never Let a Computer Tell Me Shit Pub date: 2026-09-17 Details: https://www.listennotes.com/e/59b4fd1d8a334210a99713cd08126588/ The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from This Machine Kills, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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