Bonus - AI and Silicon Valley Reactionaries w/ Becca Lewi...

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Subscribe now for the full episode. Danny and Derek welcome back to the show Becca Lewis, researcher of right-wing politics in Silicon Valley and online, to talk about the politics of artificial intelligence and Silicon Valley. They discuss AI as a marketing term, large language models, automation and white-collar labor, Silicon Valley’s relationship to the military, Palantir and Peter Thiel, AI targeting, Gaza and apartheid technologies, tech elites’ right-wing politics, the AI bubble, and left organizing among tech workers. Don't forget to check out our miniseries Marx Prestige. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Subscribe now for the full episode. Danny and Derek welcome back to the show Becca Lewis, researcher of right-wing politics in Silicon Valley and online, to talk about the politics of artificial intelligence and Silicon Valley. They discuss AI as a...

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