T. R. Napper: AI, Oligarchs, and the God of Technology

T. R. Napper returns to The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss his new collection, This Machine Kills Billionaires.Anchored by the award-winning novella The Hidden God, the collection explores artificial intelligence, concentrated wealth, corporate power, inequality, and the dangers of allowing oligarchs to control transformative technology.Napper discusses the possibility of AI becoming a new religion, whether a benevolent artificial intelligence could still become a tyrant, and the moral consequences of giving any person or machine absolute power.The conversation also examines why younger generations are rejecting generative AI, the deterioration of higher education, billionaire isolation, the difference between human creativity and algorithmic imitation, and why cyberpunk is no longer a distant future.This Machine Kills Billionaires also includes the connected stories Highway Requiem, Burned Like Coal, and Jack’s Fine Dining.T. R. NAPPEROfficial Websitehttps://nappertime.comThis Machine Kills Billionaireshttps://nappertime.com/this-machine-kills-billionaires-where-to-preorder-your-copy/Amazon Paperbackhttps://www.amazon.com/This-Machine-Kills-Billionaires-Napper/dp/1625678215Amazon Kindlehttps://www.amazon.com/This-Machine-Kills-Billionaires-Featuring-ebook/dp/B0GX35RRT6Blueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/trnapper.bsky.socialInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/trnapperFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/trnapperXhttps://x.com/TheEscherManGoodreadshttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7826255.T_R_NapperTHE DARK MIND PODCASTT. R. Napper joins The Dark Mind Podcast to discuss This Machine Kills Billionaires, AI as religion, tech oligarchs, moral power, inequality, and why cyberpunk is already here.#TRNapper #ThisMachineKillsBillionaires #ScienceFiction #Cyberpunk #ArtificialIntelligence #DarkMindPodcast