Episode 382: Civil Rights as a Weapon, Taiwan's AI Boom, and the Infrastructure of a Changing Climate

In this episode, we examine how conservative activists are using civil rights investigations to reshape school policies without winning in court, Taiwan's semiconductor hub transforming into a luxury boomtown as AI demand skyrockets, the expanding Ebola outbreak in Congo and the geopolitical complications of the US withdrawal from global health coordination, OpenAI's new hard spending limits on its API platform, the tension between right-wing apocalyptic messaging and the reality of World Cup visitors enjoying America, serious concerns about using AI to identify child predators online, and the infrastructure crisis facing British and French schools as extreme heat becomes the new normal. Throughout, we explore how institutions designed for one world are struggling to function in another. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.